Experiential Analytics
+ Data Management

We empower people with better information
to make their best decisions.

Workshop at KDD2021

Megagon Labs is hosting a Workshop On Deriving Insights From User-Generated Text (WIT)

The WIT workshop provides a venue for researchers from academia and industry to address challenges around harnessing text-heavy user-generated data available to different types of organizations, especially on topics pertaining to the pipeline of extracting data from unstructured text to a structured form to obtain insights.

WIT will be held as a virtual single-day event at SIGKDD 2021.

Submission deadline (All submission types): May 10th, 2021

Research Projects

OpineDB

Subjective database systems to support experiential queries.

Ditto

Deep Entity Matching System with Pre-Trained Language Models

BigGorilla

A data integration and data preparation ecosystem.

GiNZA

An open-source Japanese NLP library with high-precision analysis

ExtremeReader

An Interactive explorer for review summarization

Snippext

An opinion mining pipeline that uses less training data

Helping Users Make Everyday Decisions

Since 2016, Megagon Labs (formerly Recruit Institute of Technology) has conducted top-notch research and built technologies in Mountain View and Tokyo.  We are making impacts through the worldwide services and products of the Recruit Group by empowering people to make their best decision.  Our research focuses are in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, and Natural Language Processing.

Jobs

We’re always hiring for the following positions.
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Research Scientist

Participate in cutting edge research in Data Management and Integration, ML, NLP, Knowledge Representation, and Visualization.

Software Engineer

Develop solutions for the real world, working with algorithms, large-scale data processing and research problems on a daily basis.

Internships

We invite undergraduate and graduate students to apply for research and engineering internships year-round. 

Our Team

We are building a team of research scientists and engineers working on exciting projects
to make impact on our products and the world. Check out our teams!

Aaron Feng

Research Engineer

Nikita Bhutani

Research Scientist

Keiichiro Maeda

Executive Manager

Xiaolan Wang

Research Scientist

Behzad Golshan

Senior Research Scientist

Jinfeng Li

Research Scientist

Kaoru Tanaka

Research Engineer

Yuliang Li

Research Scientist

Kumiko Roque

Accounting Manager

Hidekazu Tamaki

Product Manager

Makiko Shiino

Head of Operations

Ryo Yoneda

Research Engineer

Teddy

Executive Assistant

Hongjie Shi

Research Engineer

Akiko Ito

Product Manager

Yuta Hayashibe

Research Scientist

james levine

Head of Product

Sara Evensen

Software Engineer

Hiroshi Matsuda

Research Scientist

Anita Mishra

HR Manager

eser Kandogan

Head of Engineering

Mami Egawa

Group Manager

Jin wang

Software Engineer

Vivian Li

Partnership Manager

Sajjadur rahman

Research Scientist

Yoshi Suhara

Senior Research Scientist

Shin Kanouchi

Research Scientist

Yoshie Sugawara

Office Manager

Jonathan Engel

Software Engineer

Natalie Nuno

Software Engineer

Chen Chen

Research Scientist

Dan Zhang

Software Engineer

wataru hirota

Research Associate

estevam hruschka

Staff Research Scientist

ALEXANDER WHEDON

Software Engineer

VARga istvan

Research Engineer

risa kawamaru

Office Manager