Shuhei Kurita
Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Greater Tokyo Area Japan
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Top SchoolShuhei Kurita is a researcher and Specially Appointed Associate Professor with eight years of experience at the intersection of natural language processing, deep learning, and computational physics. He earned a PhD in Informatics from Kyoto University and has advanced research roles at RIKEN AIP, NYU (visiting), National Institute of Informatics, and Institute of Science Tokyo. His work spans neural question answering, parsing, embodied AI, and 3D vision, blending machine learning with insights from neuroscience and statistical physics. Known for applying rigorous physics-inspired thinking to deep learning problems, he bridges theoretical and applied research to tackle complex language understanding challenges. Based in the Greater Tokyo Area, he combines academic leadership with active hands-on experimentation across NLP and embodied perception.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Infomatics - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Infomatics - PhD, Computer Science at Kyoto University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (19)
transformers5
parallel4
pytorch4
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
huggingface-transformers3
language-model3
gpt2
deepspeed2
semantics1
tla1
abstract-syntax-tree1
nlp1
syntax1
grammars1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
shuheikurita/sshjob
Feb 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:67 pushes in 3 years 2 months
shuheikurita/shuheikurita.github.io
May 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:230 commits, 349 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 6 months
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