Jun Hatori / 羽鳥 潤

Software / Machine Learning Engineer

I am passionate for applying cutting-edge AI and ML technologies to consumer products, with a particular focus on the intersection of language and vision. I have been working on machine learning applications for smartphones and robots as well as research projects.

I currently work for Apple in California. I received PhD in Computer Science from University of Tokyo in 2012.

Recent Projects

Tidying-up Robot

I was a leading member of Preferred Networks' tidying-up robot project demonstrated at CEATEC JAPAN 2018

Voice-Controlled Picking Robot

Participated in the development of voice-controlled picking robot system and co-authored an ICRA-2018's best paper on commanding a robot to perform a picking task interactively

Transition-Based Word Segmentation and Parsing

Proposed the first transition-based framework to process three foundational tasks in NLP, namely word tokenization, part-of-speech tagging and dependency parsing (in 2012).

Public Activities

Media

  • NHK Educational TV — Introduction to AI Series: #9 "Life" (人間ってナンだ？超AI入門 第9回「暮らす」) (2019) [video]

  • BBC — “Disruptors: Making a Better Future” (short interview covered in the program) (2019) [web]

  • NVIDIA The AI Podcast — Ep. 101: Clean Sweep: Tokyo Robotics Company Builds Tidying Robots (2019)

Talks

  • Keynote Talk at World Robot Conference 2019, Oct 2019 (Beijing, China) [video]

  • Talk at NVIDIA GTC Silicon Valley 2019 — Bringing Personal Robots Home, March 2019 (San Jose, CA) [video]

  • Keynote Talk at ViEW (Vision Engineering Workshop) 2019 (Tokyo, Japan)

Academic Activities

  • Reviewer: EMNLP / COLING / IPSJ Journal / Journal of Natural Language Processing

  • Session Chair: ACL-2012 (morphology and word segmentation)

  • Co-Chair: Student Research Workshop at ACL-2012

  • Program Committee: Second Workshop on Advances in Text Input Methods (WTIM-2)

Professional Experiences

  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple Inc (2022 – current; Cupertino, CA)

  • Software Engineer / Project Lead at Preferred Networks, Inc. (2017–2021; Tokyo, Japan)

  • Software Engineer at Apple Inc (2012–2017; Cupertino, CA)

  • Intern at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) (2011; Beijing, China)

  • Intern at Microsoft Research (MSR) (2010; Redmond, WA)

  • Intern at IBM Research – Tokyo (2009; Tokyo, Japan)

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Tokyo (2012)

  • M.A/Sc. in Interdisciplinary Information Studies, University of Tokyo (2009)

  • B.Sc. in Earth and Planetary Physics, University of Tokyo (2007)