Hiroto Kurita

I am a machine learning engineer at Apple and a Ph.D. student in the TohokuNLP group. I’m interested in efficient language model training, inference, and deployment and their underlying principles.

I was previously a founding ML engineer at Kotoba Technologies, where I worked on multilingual TTS models at scale and backend systems for the world’s fastest simultaneous translation app. I was also a JSPS Research Fellow (DC1).

I interned as a software engineer at Apple in Cupertino (summer 2024) and Tokyo (summer 2025), working on various NLP and image generation projects. During my undergrad and master’s studies, I contributed to early efforts on training Japanese large language models and on deep state space models.

For the latest CV, please visit my LinkedIn page. You can also find me on X, GitHub, and Google Scholar.