Mitsubishi Electric Data Scientist Team Wins Gold in Kaggle Competition
June 20 2024 - 10:10PM
Business Wire
Two members awarded Kaggle Competition Master
titles for cumulative achievements
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO: 6503) announced today
that a team of three data scientists, Yuya Shintani, Kento Okumura
and Shoma Fukuhara from the Mitsubishi Electric DX Innovation
Center, won a gold medal in the Home Credit – Credit Risk Model
Stability competition hosted by Google LLC subsidiary Kaggle INC.,
the world’s largest AI competition platform.
In addition, Messrs. Shintani and Okumura were each awarded the
title of Kaggle Competition Master for cumulatively winning one
gold medal and two silver medals each in Kaggle competitions. The
Master title, which is presented to people who have received a
certain number of awards in the competition category, has been
presented to 2,108 people worldwide, including 278 in Japan (as of
June 18).
Kaggle medals recognize winners for using machine learning in a
competitive format to develop effective solutions to challenges
posed by companies and government agencies.
The recent competition, which ran from February 5 to May 27,
posed the challenge of predicting the likelihood of loan applicants
defaulting on their debts, based on which participants used
analytical techniques to propose solutions. The solution devised by
Messrs. Shintani, Okumura and Fukuhara, which ranked 13th out of
3,856 solutions, won a gold medal for its robust features, model
construction and adaptation to evaluation metrics based on
exploratory data analysis, a method of data science that uses basic
aggregation and visualization to explore data characteristics and
understand data structure.
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