Shohei Hido is the chief research officer of Preferred Networks, a spin-off company of Preferred Infrastructure, Inc., where he is currently responsible for Deep Intelligence in Motion, a software platform for using deep learning in IoT applications. Previously, Shohei was the leader of Preferred Infrastructure's Jubatus project, an open source software framework for real-time, streaming machine learning and worked at IBM Research in Tokyo for six years as a staff researcher in machine learning and its applications to industries. Shohei holds an MS in informatics from Kyoto University.