Manuel Medina González

Manuel Medina González

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Data Scientist

  • Education

    • 九州工業大学 / Kyushu Institute of Technology

      2003 - 2006
      Master of Information Engineering Information Technology / Natural Language Processing Master of Engineering

      Activities and Societies: President of the Foreign Students Committee. Vice-president of the Foreign Students Committee for 2 years. Rule-based Machine Translation.

    • Instituto de intercambio cultural México-Japonés

      2000 - 2002
      Japanese Language

      Became a representative of Mexico in the program for outstanding students of Japanese of the Japan Foundation in 2002.

    • Universidad de Guadalajara

      1996 - 2000
      Systems Engineer Computer Software Engineering
    • 九州工業大学 / Kyushu Institute of Technology

      2006 - 2009
      Doctor in Information Engineering (情報工学博士) Systems Engineering and Natural Language Processing Doctor of Engineering

      Activities and Societies: President of the Foreign Students Committee Vice-president of the Foreign Students Committee (2 times) Mainly worked on Japanese-Spanish Machine Translation, rule-based.

  • Experience

    • Diseño y Sistemas Grupo Consultor

      Sept 1998 - Jan 2001
      Programmer

      - Developed systems in Visual Basic 6, Lotus Notes Script and SQL Server.- DB design.

    • EZanine de México

      Feb 2001 - Oct 2001
      Senior Programmer

      - Developed systems in Java, C++ and Visual Basic.- Company went to bankrupt due to 9.11 attacks.

    • Arquitectura en Sistemas Computacionales e Integrales

      Jan 2002 - Aug 2002
      Systems Engineer

      - Developed scripts for HP printers (Bash script, HP-UX).

    • 株式会社アイ・ビジネスセンター (i-Business Center)

      Apr 2009 - Jun 2011
      NLP System Developer and Consultant

      - Redesign and re-factoring of the company search engine (B2B).- Creation of a custom Japanese Language Model.- Application of Information Retrieval and NLP Algorithms.- Development of Systems in Java.

    • Patent Bureau

      Aug 2011 - Jun 2012
      Application Engineer

      Mainly developing systems using Scala.

    • JIEM -> Transferred to Edulab Inc.

      Jul 2012 - Apr 2019
      Researcher and Senior System Developer

      Worked on spell correction in Japanese and unsupervised image analysis.Maintained the core of the company's main product for about 2 years.Did some text classification on company's data.Used Deep learning techniques on computer vision and language models. Before I was using Apache Spark with Scala (my favorite programming language), but I'm working now with Python, Tensorflow and Keras mainly.

    • Cooori Japan Co., Ltd

      Apr 2019 - Mar 2024
      Machine Learning Engineer

      Analysis and research using educational data. Working with Python, SQL, Keras, BERT and similar transformers models. Recent work involves knowledge tracing.

    • IBM

      Mar 2024 - now
      Data Scientist

      Working mainly with Large Language Models and their applications to solve problems in the industry. Experience with AWS: ECS, ECR, CDK, SageMaker, creation and configuration of resources, permissions, roles and policies.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Machine Learning

      Coursera
      Aug 2015
    • Japanese Language Proficiency Test N1

      Jan 2004
    • Natural Language Processing

      Coursera
      May 2013
    • Functional Programming Principles in Scala

      Coursera
      Nov 2012
      View certificate certificate
    • Statistical Learning

      EdX
      Mar 2014
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Manuel Medina González
      MEXT Scholarship Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan Apr 2006 Full scholarship to study a graduate course (Ph. D. course) in a Japanese university.
    • Awarded to Manuel Medina González
      MEXT Scholarship Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan Apr 2003 Full scholarship to study a graduate course (Masters Degree) in a Japanese university.
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Cultural Ambassador

      Issued by Fukuoka Overseas Students Association on Jan 2007
      Fukuoka Overseas Students AssociationAssociated with Manuel Medina González