Hiroto Kurita
I'm a machine learning engineer based in Tokyo. I design models with their applications in mind and build the systems around them.
Previously, I was a founding ML engineer at Kotoba Technologies, where I worked on multilingual TTS models at scale and streaming integration for a simultaneous translation app. I was also a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1).
I interned at Apple in Cupertino/Tokyo (summer 2024/2025), working on NLP projects like email smart reply & pre-training data curation for Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models. I also worked on image generation related projects such as Genmoji.
My research has focused on representation learning and their underlaying principles. I also contributed to early work on Japanese LLM training and deep state space models.