Hiroki Furuta
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolHiroki Furuta is a research scientist based in Tokyo with eight years of experience focused on machine learning, particularly deep reinforcement learning, large language models, language model agents, and web navigation. After progressing from Student Researcher to Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, he blends rigorous academic training from the University of Tokyo (BE, MEng, PhD) with applied research at one of the world’s leading AI labs. His work sits at the intersection of autonomous decision-making and language understanding, often exploring how agents interact with and navigate web environments using LLM-driven policies. Colleagues describe him as both methodical and inventive—comfortable proving theoretical properties while shipping models that handle messy, real-world signals. Based in Tokyo, he maintains ties to university research communities, bringing fresh academic insights into industrial-scale ML problems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at 東京大学
Github Skills (25)
robotics9
reinforcement-learning8
physics8
hardware8
simulation8
parallel7
optimization6
accelerator6
adaptation5
deep-reinforcement-learning5
codebase5
openai-gym5
mujoco4
gymnasium4
reinforcement-learning-environments4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
matsuolab/BREMEN
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Codebase of Deployment-Efficient Reinforcement Learning via Model-Based Offline Optimization
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year
model-baseddeploymentreinforcement-learningoptimizationdeep-reinforcement-learning
frt03/frt03.github.io
Jun 2021 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:57 pushes in 3 years 9 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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