Hidekazu Oiwa is a software engineer and researcher with 15 years of experience building machine learning and NLP systems, now working on Generative AI at Google DeepMind. He has driven Search-focused ML work at Google, improving Q&A and generative features across global products and leading iterative R&D from prototype to production. His background combines industrial research (Recruit Holdings, NEC Labs) and academic depth—a Ph.D. in Information Science from The University of Tokyo and visiting scholar experience at Stanford. He has published and developed novel neural methods such as graph neural networks and bag-of-context word representations for information extraction and entity disambiguation. Known for bridging research and product delivery, he also has hands-on experience designing architectures and managing teams to deploy ML services in real-world systems. Based in Mountain View, he pairs deep technical rigor with a pragmatic focus on improving user-facing AI quality.
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Hidekazu Oiwa - Software Engineer at Google DeepMind