Summary
Yoshio Takaeda is a seasoned technology founder and CTO who has spent over 25 years in big data analytics, spanning polymer and gene databases to scalable visualization. As founder, CEO and CTO of toor Inc., he leads the development of toorPIA, a big-data visualization engine that enables anyone to build data analyses without specialist skills and automatically maps large datasets using vector models and concept search theory. He blends deep scientific training—a Ph.D. in Polymer Physics from Kyoto University—with hands-on leadership to translate complex data challenges into practical software solutions. His work has attracted three major SIers and seven large manufacturers in automotive and electronics to adopt toorPIA for internal analytics, including IoT sensor data. Based in Fukushima, Japan, Yoshio is focused on unlocking scalable sensor data analysis in the IoT era through intuitive visualization and analytics tooling. He has held senior research and executive roles at Mitsubishi Research Institute and So-Ti, Inc., grounding his product vision in both research science and enterprise experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Polymer Physics, Ph.D., Polymer Physics at Kyoto University