Kentaro Hanaki
Principal AI Engineer at 株式会社IVRy
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolKentaro Hanaki is a Principal AI Engineer based in Tokyo with 12 years of experience applying ML and NLP to real-world products, currently leading development of LLM-based spoken dialogue systems at IVRy. His background spans research and production roles at Google (Assistant NLU), MICIN (healthcare AI lead), IBM, and academic training in data science (NYU) and a PhD in theoretical physics (University of Michigan). He combines deep research rigor with product-focused engineering, shipping conversational AI and healthcare models in production. Known for bridging cutting-edge LLM work with pragmatic system design, he also consults for startups to accelerate NLP adoption. An unusual strength is his theoretical-physics training, which informs a principled approach to complex model and algorithm design.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Theoretical High Energy Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Theoretical High Energy Physics at University of MichiganMaster of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at New York University
English, JapaneseGithub contributions (3)
kh21/stat-nlp-nyu
Sep 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:51 commits in 2 months
calvinyu/WSE
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:54 commits in 2 months
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