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Resume

Lead ML Engineer · Kyoto University IST · Kurohashi Lab

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Education

Apr 2026 – Mar 2028

M.S. in Informatics (Intelligence Science and Technology)

Kyoto University — Kurohashi Lab

NLP, LLM Alignment, LLM-as-a-Judge, Multimodal Foundation Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Low-Resource Language Processing (Khmer).

Apr 2022 – Mar 2026

B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Kyoto University

Graduation thesis: Evaluation of Large Language Models on Human Creativity Alignment. Signal processing, embedded systems, and AI.

Experience

Aug 2025 – Present

Lead AI Engineer

Senren, Inc.

Prompt optimization with DSPy, experimental-to-production NLP transitions, model selection, cross-stack integration.

Nov 2025 – Present

AI Research Engineer

KyotoAI (Government Subsidized Startup)

Custom reward models with RL, RMSearch optimization, LLM coding benchmarking suite against BigCodeBench for B2B enterprise.

Apr 2025 – Mar 2026

Undergraduate Researcher — LLM Alignment & Evaluation

Kyoto University — Kurohashi Lab

Authored preprint on AI Creativity Evaluation (arXiv:2601.03698), presented at NLP2026. Benchmarked SOTA models on reasoning and alignment.

Aug 2024

Hardware Research Engineer (Quantum Sensing)

University of Tsukuba

Digital pulse generation circuits and precision measurement setups for quantum sensing.

Apr 2023 – Present

Trilingual Technical Interpreter

Hanamizuki Co. Ltd

Japanese ↔ English ↔ Khmer. Official interpreter for the Prime Minister of Cambodia's security detail during state visits.

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

PythonC++TypeScriptReactNext.jsPyTorch

AI / ML

LLM AlignmentDSPyReward ModelingRLHFNLPMultimodal Models

Infrastructure

CUDAvLLMDockerVercelPostgreSQLLinux

Languages

English (Native)Japanese (JLPT N1)Khmer (Native)