About the author on this article
Masaya Mori
Deloitte Digital, Partner
Tohoku University, Visiting Professor
Japan Deep Learning Association, Advisor
Mercari R4D (research institute), Advisor
(till 2020 Mar) Executive Officer, Rakuten, Inc.
(till 2019 Dec) Founding Director, Rakuten Institute of Technology Worldwide
PROFILE SUMMARY
Masaya Mori joined Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting in 2020 and the advisory board of R4D, a research institute in Mercari which is the largest C2C business company in Japan.
He worked for Accenture from 1998 to 2006, and for Rakuten from 2006 to 2020. In Rakuten he was Executive Officer and Founding Director of Rakuten Institute of Technology, in charge of making and implementing strategies of AI, IoT and Big Data solutions and managing seven institutes in 5 countries. His research institutes had been developing Robotics technologies, new AI marketing solutions, image recognition, voice recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, language learning solutions and so on.
Since July 2017, he also served as the Director of Rakuten life Tech Lab. of Rakuten Life Insurance.
Other than those, he is Executive Member of the Japan Institute of Information Technology, Executive member of Nikkei BP IT innovators, Executive fellow of Ignition Point and Board member of the Steering Committee of the Ruby Association. In 2013 Mori was selected as one of “40 Prodigies” by the Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun newspaper. He made a speech about SDGs on behalf of Japan IT companies in STI Forum at United Nation 2018. He has authored books including The Complete Cloud Computing (co-authored, Nikkei BP) and massive change in the web (Kindai-Sales Co).
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Organization Design, IT-ROI Consulting, R&D Management Consulting
System Integration, Application Architecture Design and Implementation, Data Center Consulting, Operation Consulting
A wide range of areas around E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet services and computer science such as cloud computing, distributed computing, AR/VR/MR, search system and recommender system, NLP, Machine Translation, Product Catalog Science, AI, machine learning, deep learning, IoT, UI/UX, etc
Others
Masaya Mori has written over 100 articles in Japanese as follows, focusing on AI, Bigdata, IoT, 5G and Digital Transformation.
