Brown Bag Seminar: Reducing Estimation Error with Masahiro Kato
Economists' in Tech 2025 season has arrived! This month, we have Masahiro-san from Mizuho Daiichi Financial Technology, previously from the University of Tokyo.
About the main speaker:
Masahiro Kato is a Financial Engineer with an academic background in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Tokyo. He previously worked in Ad Economics for CyberAgent and is now at Mizuho Daiichi Financial Technology, where he analyzes financial and marketing data while developing economics-related machine learning methodologies. His research specialties include causal inference and experimental design, and he has published in the proceedings of NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, Econometrica. Kato-san resides in Tokyo.
Event Details:
📍Tokyo Midtown (Nearest station is Roppongi). Exact location will be emailed directly to event participants 2 days prior to the event.
🍱 BYO dinner/supper.
⌚️ Capacity is limited, so please RSVP with care.
Event Purpose:
University shouldn't be the only place to learn and keep up-to-date with the latest Economics practices.
This meet-up group aims to provide a space suitable for practising Economists to learn, network and present.
Who can attend?
We welcome all Economists in Japan, especially those working in technology-related fields and/or industries.
Experts from the following fields are especially welcomed:
- Deep Learning / Neural Networks
- Auction Theory
- Matching Theory
- Game Theory
- Public Allocation mechanisms
- Microeconomics
Style of Event:
Brown bag meetings are combined learning/eating events, taking place over lunchtime, where training can occur in an informal setting. Since most of us are industry practitioners, we have adopted the style of a brown bag lunch for dinner time, to accommodate our time schedules.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/brown-bag-meeting.asp
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Interested in speaking next time?
Email your interest to the event organiser at nikita@nikitakent.com or c.rowat@espero.org.uk