Kenji Watanabe
Researcher — pre-training, scaling, evaluation
ScreeningWarmSourcedPassiveUS citizen
AI match score
96
Last touched1w ago
OwnerMei Lin
Comp expectation$520,000–$720,000
Flight riskmedium
Work history
- OPSan Francisco, CATeam of 35AI/MLgrowth
Drove ml research work end-to-end with partner teams.
Shipped a new pre-training recipe that beat the previous baselineLed evals track for a frontier model releaseReduced training-cluster idle time via a new schedulerDistributed trainingNLPReinforcement learningHugging Face TransformersPyTorchPythonLLM fine-tuning - HASan Francisco, CATeam of 24Developer Toolsenterprise
Drove ml research work end-to-end with partner teams.
Led evals track for a frontier model releaseShipped a new pre-training recipe that beat the previous baselineJAXComputer visionLLM fine-tuningDistributed training - MINew York, NYTeam of 8AI/MLstartup
Drove ml research work end-to-end with partner teams.
Led evals track for a frontier model releaseLLM fine-tuningReinforcement learningPyTorchHugging Face TransformersDistributed training - SASan Francisco, CATeam of 14AI/MLgrowth
Drove ml research work end-to-end with partner teams.
Reduced training-cluster idle time via a new schedulerMachine learningDistributed trainingNLPPythonReinforcement learningLLM fine-tuningComputer vision - VESan Francisco, CATeam of 5Developer Toolsgrowth
Drove ml research work end-to-end with partner teams.
Led evals track for a frontier model releaseComputer visionDistributed trainingReinforcement learningPythonMachine learningPyTorchJAX