István Varga

István Varga has a strong background in research and data science. István is currently working as a researcher at Megagon Labs since April 2020. Prior to that, they worked as a data scientist at Recruit Technologies Co.,Ltd. from April 2015 to March 2020. Before that, they held the position of a researcher (Assistant Manager) at NEC Corporation from April 2014 to March 2015. István also gained experience as a visiting researcher at the University of Szeged for a brief period from February 2014 to March 2014. Their career started at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology in November 2009, where they worked as a researcher engaging in extensive research in various fields of natural language processing. Their main projects involved language model acquisition for voice commanded open domain question answering systems and information extraction from social media or large web corpora.

István Varga completed their Bachelor of Science degree in an unspecified field of study from Babes-Bolyai University in Romania from 1999 to 2003. István then pursued a Master of Arts in Education degree at Yamagata University in Japan from 2004 to 2006. Afterward, István Varga continued their education at Yamagata University, completing their Doctor of Engineering (PhD) degree from 2006 to 2009. The specific field of study for both their master's and doctoral degrees is not provided.