ABOUT

Joined Recruit as a mid-career hire in September of 2015, and the head of the Advanced Technology Lab since April of 2019.
Having pursued mid-to-long term R&D on enterprise groupware product development at 2 independent IT startups, and participates in cultivating human talent for security, being a guest lecturer at a security camp and the Founding Executive Committee Chairman for SECCON.
Serves concurrently as a project manager for an unexplored IPA IT personnel discovery and training venture.

I’m the manager of this organization.
On weekdays, I’m swamped with work, but on my days off I refresh myself by doing kendo and going on trips on my road bike. I was taught that “business is what creates culture,” and I think it’s our job to make sure that cutting-edge technology is used in daily life in a matter-of-fact way. If you’re someone who smolders with things you want to do, please reach out to me.

Decades ago, Keno Sugawara was influenced by Super Titan (by Tatsuo Morimura) at a young age. Then, he followed the latest trends to work on software and hardware modification using various computers. Recently, Keno has been fascinated by the inconvenience of performance limitations, and devoted to developing 8bit and 16bit microcomputers.

After getting experience with large-scale system architecture at Sler, joined Recruit in March of 2014.
After starting up a booking table, replacing Hot Pepper Beauty, and promoting the development of Recruit Navi HRTech as a full-stack engineer, joined the Advanced Technology Lab in April of 2019.

I joined Recruit in 2008 after working in foreign investments and Japan’s financial institutions. I am in charge of coverage of a wide array of topics such as robots and natural language processing, artificial intelligence, development of female-oriented IoT devices, video analyses, and support of Japanese exports in the overseas market.
When Sweden’s Queen Victoria came to Japan, I assisted with Robot＋TAISHI. My fields of expertise are OCR and retail tech, and medical, etc. AI fields.
Privately, I run a medical AI company, participate in collaborate research with university hospitals, etc., provide commercialized medical consulting as a business producer, and appear on TV and various other media.

After teaching an endowed course on mathematical optimization at Osaka University Graduate School of Information Sciences and Technology, I joined Recruit in October of 2023.
I am involved in the study of mathematical optimization, algorithms, operations research.
I am especially involved in applying research development of practical algorithms to optimization questions that are both large-scale and difficult-to-calculate, as well as actual problems of mathematical optimization models and algorithms.
My books include “A Proper Study of Mathematical Optimization: From Models to Algorithms” (Kodansha) and “50 Optimization Questions Useful for Application” (Asakura Shoten).

After conducting research on particle physics and economics on graduate school, I joined Recruit in 2016. As a data scientist, I am engaged in finance, human resources and commercial projects. At ATL, I conduct research on mechanisms that give rise to innovation based on economic growth theory. I have a doctorate degree (physics).

My main duty is being responsible for PR/communication policy in the product planning supervision room. My mission is to increase fans of Recruit both within and outside of the company. At ATL I am in charge of promoting industry-academic cooperation; I attend various academic meetings and seminar rooms all around Japan, and also lecture at numerous universities. I am on the board of the Database Society of Japan (vice president), visiting researcher and steering committee member at Kwansei Gakuin University Research Center for Social Informatics.

In 2017, I joined Recruit as a new graduate.
I conduct efficacy measurements of marketing policy and improvement of efficiency.
At ATL, I connect specialists in offline evaluation/study of counterfactual-thinking machine learning with people for a head for business within the company, in hopes of bringing about innovation.
I am a part-time lecturer at Tokyo Institute of Technology.

I joined Recruit midway in October of 2019, and am in charge of research development in the field of AR/VR.
My goal is to produce the outcome of people both in and outside of the company remarking, “They’re/we’re doing interesting things at Recruit!”
For my external activities, I serve concurrently as a technical advisor at an AR/VR startup company.
I am a senior VR engineer authorized by the Japan VR Society, discovering and nurturing IPA unexplored IT personnel project selector.