2021

Todd Cao is a deep learning and computer vision practitioner and researcher with broad knowledge of image (object) search, classification and object detection. He is particularly interested in reading and implementing cutting edge research papers to solve real-world problems. Todd […]

Dr Yu Hirate is a senior manager at Rakuten Institute of Technology Tokyo since 2018. He also serves as a board member of the Data Base Society of Japan. He received Dr Eng. degree in 2008 from Waseda University in […]

I am passionate about Search and Information Discovery, and have spent the last 15 years building information discovery products. I’ve been part of some exciting efforts: . Pugmarks.me: A contextual content discovery product, based on browsing history and your mobile […]

Dr Björn Stenger is leading the vision program at the Rakuten Institute of Technology. He received the diploma (~M.Sc.) in computer science from the University of Bonn, Germany, in 2000 and his PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, in […]

Ankur Datta is currently Director of Science at Rakuten, where he leads the applied data science team and R&D teams focused on language and customer understanding. His research interests are in deep learning, natural language processing and computer vision. He […]

Sandipan Chakraborty works as Director of Engineering in the Global Data Office, Rakuten USA. He and his team are responsible for developing and maintaining the “Data Analytics Platform” for Rakuten Group. The platform today serves analytics and Data services to […]

Sankar Narayanan is the VP & Global Head of Cloud Engineering. Sankarcomes with over 22+ years of experience. He is specialized in Building web-scale cloud applications and is focused on building large scale enterprise products. He has extensive experience in […]

Ramesh Narayanaswamy is an experienced Chief Information Officer / Chief technology officer across Banking, Financial markets, Wealth Management, Insurance, Mutual funds, Lending, eCommerce, logistics and Digital delivery. He is a seasoned technology leader with a passion for executing Transformational projects, […]

Arif is a builder by heart, a passionate technologist with expertise in distributed systems, engineering and internet-scale platforms. Currently, he is a Senior Director at Rakuten. In his current role, he builds engineering teams, ideate, creates and run products/platforms across […]

Shesh is an Entrepreneur, Product Management Leader, Business Strategy Consultant and an Executive Coach. He brings 25 years of experience in Product Management, Strategy Consulting and Engineering spanning across the US and India, across MNCs to SMBs to early-stage start-ups. […]