Mitsubishi Electric Engineer Awarded 'Kaggle Competitions Master' Title in Global AI Competition

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced that Tadakiyo Seki, an engineer at its Design Technology Development Center, has been awarded the title of 'Kaggle Competitions Master' on Kaggle, the world's largest AI competition platform.

Kaggle allows participants from around the globe to compete by solving challenges presented by companies and research institutions using mathematical modeling and machine learning. Participants are awarded medals based on their performance, and titles are granted according to the total number of medals earned.

By integrating the knowledge of physical modeling cultivated through daily R&D with machine learning technologies, Seki has been participating in Kaggle competitions since 2024. He earned a gold medal in the 'March Machine Learning Mania 2025' competition, ranking 10th out of 1,727 teams in statistically predicting basketball match results, and a silver medal in the 'PhysioNet - Digitization of ECG Images' competition, ranking 63rd out of 1,424 teams for extracting waveform data from ECG images. Recently, by winning a silver medal in 'Stanford RNA 3D Folding Part 2'—a competition held from January 7 to March 25, 2026, to predict 3D structures from RNA base sequences—where he ranked 44th out of 1,867 teams, he attained the title of 'Kaggle Competitions Master,' awarded to the top 1.3% of Kaggle participants.

The company is driving a transformation into an 'Innovative Company' that creates value through new ideas without fearing risks. Going forward, the company aims to leverage the high technical capabilities of engineers like Seki to develop next-generation manufacturing technologies using AI and data science and solve social issues by creating new value.

Personal Comment Tadakiyo Seki, Mechanical Technology Department, Design Technology Development Center, Monozukuri Technology Division, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation 'I am very pleased to be awarded the Kaggle Competitions Master title. Leveraging the skills honed through my challenges on Kaggle, I will continue to contribute to the realization of a better society by promoting the optimization and efficiency of the Mitsubishi Electric Group's manufacturing processes, such as by developing AI agents to support design.'

About Mitsubishi Electric Group The Mitsubishi Electric Group, under its 'Our Philosophy,' places sustainability at the core of its management, valuing trust from stakeholders including society, customers, shareholders, and employees. The group pursues profitability, capital efficiency, and growth while creating new value to solve social issues. With over 100 years of history since its founding in 1921, the company operates in social systems, energy systems, defense/space systems, FA systems, automotive equipment, building systems, air conditioning/home appliances, digital innovation, and semiconductors/devices. It encompasses over 200 group companies worldwide with approximately 150,000 employees and reported consolidated net sales of 5.8947 trillion yen for the 2025 fiscal year.