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Last updated: March 2026 · Kyoto, Japan

Currently Working On

  • M.S. research at Kurohashi Lab — multi-agent creative intelligence and LLM-as-a-Judge refinement
  • Lead AI Engineer at Senren — prompt optimization with DSPy, shipping NLP services to production
  • AI Research Engineer at KyotoAI — reward model training and LLM benchmarking for enterprise
  • Refining LLM-as-a-Judge methods by testing the limits of open-source models as evaluators

Exploring

  • Planning the AI creativity evaluation framework for images — extending from text-based evaluation
  • Gathering resources to build a native LLM in Khmer — one of the most under-represented languages in existing models
  • Multi-agent architectures where specialized agents negotiate on creative output quality

What's Next

  • Publish follow-up to NLP2026 paper with image creativity evaluation results
  • Open-source the AI creativity benchmarking suite
  • Build a Khmer language tokenizer optimized for the script's unique morphology
This is a /now page. Updated manually when things change.