Takafumi Watanabe

Takafumi Watanabe is a seasoned machine learning professional with extensive experience in data science and machine learning engineering. Currently serving as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Turing株式会社 since December 2024, Watanabe previously held positions as a Data Scientist at 株式会社タイミー and as a Technical Lead in Machine Learning, VP of Research, and Software Engineer at Idein Inc. From 2016 to 2017, Watanabe worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Recruit LifeStyle and served as a Data Scientist at KDDI Corporation, specializing in customer segmentation and churn prediction using telecommunication data. Watanabe’s research experience spans from 2008 to 2015 at KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., focusing on mobile computing, activity recognition, and data mining with technologies like Hadoop and Spark. Watanabe holds a Master’s degree in Information Science and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Osaka University.