Shuntaro Yada - Profile and CV

About

Research Theme

I major in Library and Information Science, and am interested in what kinds of opportunities makes people to read. My main research theme is development of a book recommendation system Serendy to simulate an online version of the situation where a person discovers books by chance through daily informal chats with friends. I focus on tweets that mention books. Besides, I also have an interest on supporting library by developing software.

Contact Details

YADA, Shuntaro
Male, birth on 1991
ORCID

0000-0002-6209-1054
Affiliation
Laboratory of Library and Information Science,
Division of Lifelong Learning Infrastructure Management,
Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo

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Education

Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo

Ph.D. Student in Library and Information Science | Present

Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo

Master of Education in Library and Information Science | March 2016

The University of Tokyo

Bachelor in Pedagogy | March 2014

Work

KDDI Research

Student Intern | October 2016-June 2017

UTokyo Mono-Lab-Japan

Senior Student Instractor | 2014–2017

I have been planning and teaching how to build own gold-roubeberg machine to pupils in Takayama city and Gifu city. In this program, we work with municipal administrations, local comittees of education, retired senior engineers, and volunteer high school students, as well as college student staffs of the project. Also I teach Arduino as a device which is combined into a gold-roubeberg machine children craft.

Skill

Natural Languages

Japanese: Native speaker.
English: Intermidiate level in reading and writing, basic level in listening and speaking.
Deutsch: Beginner as a third language.

Programming Languages

Python 3

Using more than four years and my main programming language:

Natural Language Processing (Japanese and English),
Machine Learning (sklearn and keras),
Data Analysis (pandas, numpy, and scipy).

Ruby

Intermittently using six years for casual programming such as building simple web applications (of Rails or Sinatra), and preprocessing textual data.

JavaScript

Beginner on D3.js, and jQuery.

LaTeX

For typesetting academic articles (creating a thesis template for my affiliation).

Operating Systems

macOS: Daily use for research and development.
Linux: Server operation such as running scripts and Rails/Wordpress deployment. My favorite distribution is Ubuntu.
Windows: Basic handling, if others force me to use it

Production Tools

Atom Editor: Main text editor in GUI (with vim-mode-plus).
Vim (neovim): Main text editor in CUI.
Premiere Pro: Basic level of post production such as making a short PV
Illustrator: Designing academic posters and bussiness cards for myself and other projects (recently I switched into Affinity Designer)