Shintaro KURIMOTO

Shintaro KURIMOTO

Data Scientist

Ad Data Science Team

LINE Corporation

Biography

Shintaro KURIMOTO is a data scientist at Ad Data Science Team, LINE Corporation. I have been working on personalizing ad layouts and investigating the impact of ad quality on the content from which they are placed, as well as the relationship between ad content and the content from which they are placed to determine CTR.

Interests
  • Personalization / Recommender Systems (especially in “beyond accuracy”)
  • User Modeling
  • Online Advertising
Education
  • Master of Engineering in Computer Science, 2022

    University Tsukuba

  • Bachelor of Informatin Engineering in Computer Science, 2020

    University Tsukuba

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Data Scientist
Apr 2022 – Present Tokyo, Japan

Responsibilities include:

  • Organize and visualize KPI’s, search for focus points, verify hypotheses for planning measures, and design and verify A/B tests for the purpose of understanding LINE users and expanding the business of the family service.
  • Design and development of metrics and logic to measure the effectiveness of marketing using internal and external media and to automate this process.
  • Development and verification of logic to optimize ad delivery, and provision of data to sales staff.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Oct 2021 – Mar 2022 Ibaraki, Japan
 
 
 
 
 
Customer Engineer Intern
Aug 2021 – Aug 2021 Tokyo, Japan
  • Created a part of the paid technical material.
  • Gave a simplified explanation of the contents of Azure Updates to non-technical staff in the company.
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Sep 2020 – Jul 2021 Ibaraki, Japan
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant
Apr 2020 – Jul 2020 Ibaraki, Japan
 
 
 
 
 
Machine Learning Engneer Intern
Apr 2019 – Apr 2019 Tokyo, Japan
 
 
 
 
 
Research and Development Engneer Intern
Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 Tokyo, Japan
  • Developed an idea and implemented it for the recommender system of AbemaTV, popular online TV in Japan.
  • Surveyed research papers and summarized them for colleagues.
  • Comments by his mentor, Yo NAITO:
    “He played an active role in task setting and had enough coding skills.”
 
 
 
 
 
Frontend Engneer Intern
Aug 2018 – Aug 2018 Tokyo, Japan
  • Implemented new functions aimed at solving the problems of existing systems for Yahoo! auction, the biggest auction service in Japan.
  • Completed from finding problems to interviewing users.
  • Comments by his mentor, Kaoru KENJO:
    “He worked fast and voluntarily supported other interns. I want him to join our company.”
 
 
 
 
 
Data Analyst Intern
Aug 2017 – Aug 2017 Tokyo, Japan
  • Discovered trends in user’s search behavior.
  • Comments by his mentor, Yusuke KUWABARA:
    “I enjoyed working with him and wanted to work more with him.”