Toshihiko Sakai
Researcher
GMO Pepabo, Inc.
Education
- Oct 2020 – PresentKyushu UniversityDoctoral Program (Regular Employee)
Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
- Apr 2011 – Mar 2013Kyushu UniversityMaster's Degree
Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering
- Apr 2007 – Mar 2011Shimane UniversityBachelor's Degree
Interdisciplinary Faculty of Science and Engineering
Work Experience
- May 2021 – PresentGMO Pepabo, Inc.Researcher
- Apr 2013 – Apr 2021NTT West CorporationEngineer
- Aug 2011Toshiba R&D CenterResearch Internship
Awards & Fellowships
- 2023GMO Internet Group AI Contest Monthly Excellence Award
- 2013JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists DC1 (tentative decision)
- 2013JASSO Scholarship – Exemption for Outstanding Performance (half exemption)
- 2012NEC C&C Foundation International Conference Paper Presenter Grant
- 2008Shimane University Academic Excellence Award
Qualifications
- 2025.4Network Specialist
- 2022.12Google Cloud Certified Professional Machine Learning Engineer
- 2021.9TOEIC 670 (L:340, R:330)
- 2019.4Registered Information Security Specialist(019189)
- 2019.1FP Level 2(2F2-0-19-251098)
- 2018.1Chief Telecommunications Engineer (transmission and switching)(AA18A00407D)
- 2016.3LPIC304
- 2016.3CCNA
- 2015.5LPIC-2
- 2015.4Information Security Specialist(SC-2015-04-00694)
- 2014.8LPIC-1
- 2013.4Applied Information Technology Engineer
- 2009.1Judo 2-dan
Presentations
The Reality of an IT Engineer Balancing Work, Doctoral Study, and Childcare (Kansai)
[Unofficial] Kinoko Conference in Kansai, July 26, 2025
Incident Response Drill with BCP in Mind
AWS Introduction via AWS Experience Stories, March 15, 2026
Publications
International Journals
- Toshihiko Sakai, Nobuhiko Chiwata, Tsunenori Mine. “Named Entity Recognition with Clue-Word Tags from Patent Documents in Materials Science” IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3671976, March 9, 2026.
- Brendan Flanagan, Takahiko Suzuki, Jun Zeng, Chengjiu Yin, Toshihiko Sakai, Kiyota Hashimoto, Sachio Hirokawa. “Peer Knowledge Assisted Search Using Community Search Logs” International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications, Vol.3, No.2, pp.1-8.
- Jun Zeng, Toshihiko Sakai, Chengjiu Yin, Takahiko Suzuki, Sachio Hirokawa. “Automatic Generation of Tourism Quiz using Blogs” Artificial Life and Robotics, 17(3), pp.412-416.
International Conferences
- Toshihiko Sakai, Nobuhiko Chiwata, Tsunenori Mine. “Named Entity Recognition from Materials Science Patent Documents Using Clue Word Tags” NLPIR 2024, December 13-15, 2024.
- Brendan Flanagan, Takahiko Suzuki, Jun Zeng, Chengjiu Yin, Toshihiko Sakai, Kiyota Hashimoto, Sachio Hirokawa. “Focused Search using Community Search Logs” Proc. ICDIPC2013, pp.559-565, January 30-February 1, 2013.
- Toshihiko Sakai, Sachio Hirokawa. “Feature Words that Classify Problem Sentence in Scientific Article” 14th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2012), pp.360-367, December 3-5, 2012.
- Toshihiko Sakai, K. Hashimoto, Y. Kamisoyama, M. Okada, S. Hirokawa. "Polarity Estimation of Tweets by Feature Sets" 25th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE2012), pp.105-110, November 14-16, 2012.
- Toshihiko Sakai, Brendan Flanagan, Jun Zeng, Tetsuya Nakatoh, Sachio Hirokawa. “Search Engine Focused on Multiple Features of Scientific Articles” Proc. AAI2012, pp.214-217, September 23, 2012.
- Toshihiko Sakai, M. Matsushita, B. Flanagan, J. Zeng, S. Hirokawa. “Analysis of Influence of Investor Relation Documents to Stock Price” Proc. FSKD2012, May 29-31, 2012.
- J. Zeng, Toshihiko Sakai, B. Flanagan, S. Hirokawa. “Extraction of Relevant Components Using Shallow Structure of HTML Documents” Proc. FSKD2012, May 29-31, 2012.
- Toshihiko Sakai, Jun Zeng, Brendan Flanagan, Tetsuya Nakatoh, Sachio Hirokawa. "Discriminant Words for Problems in Scientific Articles" International Symposium on Innovative E-Services and Information Systems (IEIS 2012), May 29-30, 2012.
- Jun Zeng, Toshihiko Sakai, Chengjiu Yin, Takahiko Suzuki, Sachio Hirokawa. "Automatic Generation of Tourism Quiz using Blogs" 17th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 17th '12), pp.97-100, January 19-21, 2012.
Domestic Workshops
- Jun Zeng, Toshihiko Sakai, Brendan Flanagan, Sachio Hirokawa. "Extraction of feature words with the same generality level as query using restricted bootstrapping" 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2012), pp.171-176.
- INOKUCHI Youhei, SAKAI Toshihiko, YIN Chengjiu, HIROKAWA Sachio. "Generation of Hen-ai Map from Search Log for Foreign Language Learning" IS研究会 (IEEJ), Vol.2012, No.56, pp.169-172.
Other
- 酒井敏彦, 千綿伸彦, 峯恒憲. “特許文書の材料科学技術表現抽出” プロテリアル技法, Vol.39, pp.36-47.
Theses
- Master's ThesisEffect of Feature Selection in Learning from Few Examples(February 2013)
- Bachelor's ThesisExtraction of Users' Interests and Follower Recommendation on Twitter(2011)
Patents
Skills & Qualifications
- Research & Technology
- Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Named Entity Recognition
Hobbies & Interests
- Shogi (Shogi Wars 1-dan)
- Dining with shareholder perks