[public] Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Kenichi Kurihara

Software Engineering Manager at Google

kenichi.kurihara@gmail.com

https://www.kenichikurihara.com/ 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenichi-kurihara-14361a12/

Employment

Google

Notable experience at Google

• Delivering business impacts including 0-to-1 product launches
• Leading and managing teams, at most 60+ engineers, including 1) building teams from scratch and 2) managing a team in the US.
• Senior stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration

Timeline

• 2025 - Present: Leading Search Discover UGC

• Led a team of 25 engineers with xfn teams to land first-ever user generated content in Search Discover

• 2022 - 2024: Techlead / manager of Tokyo News team

• Led a team to land Search features for newsy and trending queries

• 2022 - 2024: Search Creator Understanding workstream lead

• Led a team with managing multiple senior stakeholders

• 2019 - 2022: Quality lead of Search Ecosystem org
• 2014 - 2020: Techlead / manager of Synonyms + Titles/Snippets team
• 2010 - 2014: Techlead / manager of Tokyo synonyms team
• 2009: Techlead of Tokyo Synonyms team
• 2008: Developed algorithms to find Synonyms for Web Search

Patents

• https://patents.google.com/patent/US10303684B1/
• https://patents.google.com/patent/US9116957B1/ 

Academic Experience

2006-2008        JSPS Research Fellow (DC1).

2007                Research scholar

Information & Computer Science, UC Irvine, USA.

2006                Research scholar

Information & Computer Science, UC Irvine, USA.

Education

2006-2008        PhD computer science specializing on machine learning

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Supervisor: Prof. Taisuke Sato

2004-2005        Enrolled as an exchange student

Information & Computer Science, UC Irvine, USA.

2003-2006        ME computer science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Supervisor: Prof. Taisuke Sato.

1999-2003        BE computer science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Thesis: Efficient Grammar Induction Algorithm from Huge Corpora

Supervisor: Prof. Taisuke Sato.

Academic Publications

Selected list

• Collapsed Variational Dirichlet Process Mixture Models, IJCAI 2007
• Collapsed variational inference for HDP, NIPS 20, 2007
• Accelerated variational Dirichlet process mixtures, NIPS 19, 2006

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