Wataru Hirota

Publications

Papers

  • Jin Wang, Yuliang Li, Wataru Hirota. Machamp: A Generalized Entity Matching Benchmark. CIKM 2021 (Resource Track). arXiv.
  • Yuliang Li, Jinfeng Li, Yoshihiko Suhara, Jin Wang, Wataru Hirota, Wang-Chiew Tan. Deep Entity Matching: Challenges and Opportunities. Journal of Data and Information Quality. 2021.
  • Wataru Hirota, Yoshihiko Suhara, Behzad Golshan, Wang-Chiew Tan. Emu: Enhancing Multilingual Sentence Embeddings with Semantic Specialization. AAAI. 2020. arXiv.
  • Mitsuhiro Eto, Wataru Hirota, Shigeto Seno, Hideo Matsuda. Asymmetric Integration of Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Procrustes Analysis. IEEE BIBM. 2018.

Conferences

  • Wataru Hirota, Yoshihiko Suhara, Behzad Golshan, Wang-Chiew Tan. Semantic Cross-lingual Sentence Embeddings. RepL4NLP (hosted by ACL). 2019.
  • Wataru Hirota, Mitsuhiro Eto, Shigeto Seno, Hideo Matsuda. A method for cluster analysis of single-cell gene expression data using the Pachinko Allocation Model. Mathematical Modeling and Problem Solving. 2017. (in Japanese)
  • Wataru Hirota, Naoto Ishida, Keigo Naito, Taiga Honda, Masayoshi Iwamoto, Makoto Matsushita, Katsuro Inoue. A language-agnostic debugging support tool. IPSJ Software Engineering Symposium. 2016. (In Japanese)

Experience

Career

  • Stockmark Inc, Tokyo, Japan. Sep 2021 - Present.
    Research Engineer
  • Megagon Labs, Mountain view, CA. Apr 2020 - May 2021.
    Research Associate

Internships

  • Megagon Labs, Mountain view, CA. Jan 2019 - Mar 2019.
    Research internship (theme: multilingual sentence embedding)
  • NTT Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan. Aug 2018 - Sep 2018.
    Research internship (theme: anomaly detection of server logs)

Education

  • Master of Science from Osaka University, Japan. Mar 2020.
    Supervisor: Makoto Onizuka
  • Bachelor of Science from Osaka University, Japan. Mar 2018.
    Supervisor: Hideo Matsuda

Links

Contact

{my first name}@whiro.me