Ryuto Kitagawa

Research Scientist

Email: ryutok@uci.edu Location: Irvine, California
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Summary

I am currently a Research Scientist at Meta. My reserach area focus during my PhD was in both theoretical and practical parallel algorithms. I have experience as a researcher in both the academic and industry setting, and also have a strong background in software engineering.

Experience

Software Engineer Intern

Meta | Bellevue, WA

Summer 2025

  • Researched various methods of improving retrieval models for recommendations
  • Implemented CUDA versions of various algorithms to test and improve efficiency
  • Produced tools to efficiently benchmark hyper paramters of algorithms

Teaching Assistant

University of California, Irvine | Irvine, CA

2021 - 2025

  • Develop and lead lesson plans for weekly classes for better understanding of algorithms
  • Effectively communicate topics in Computer Science ranging various algorithms
  • Provide office hours for one on one interactions with students to develop their understanding of concepts taught in class

Undergraduate Research Assistant

University of Hawaii at Manoa | Honolulu, HI

2020 - 2021

  • Recreated results of Ben Karsin’s dissertation that proposed a model for estimating the time a parallel algorithm would take on a GPU
  • Designed and implemented a microbenchmarking algorithm to find the latency and throughput of a GPU based on the dissertation
  • Made design choices and improvements in order to ensure accurate benchmarks and data was being gathered

Sophmore Software Engineering Intern

Raytheon | El Segundo, CA

Summer 2019

  • Developed software capable of communicating with simulated systems using a subscriber/publisher model
  • Enhanced a program capable of taking in binary messages and outputting the deciphered messages in a JSON format
  • Designed a GUI in Tkinter to present binary information in a user friendly format

Education

PhD in Computer Science

University of California, Irvine | Irvine, CA

2021 - 2025

  • Advisor: Michael T. Goodrich
  • Thesis Topic: Theoretical Parallel Algorithms

B.S in Computer Science

University of Hawaii at Manoa | Honolulu, HI

2018 - 2021

  • Worked as Undergraduate Research Assistant for Nodari Sitchinava
  • President of Algorithms Club for 2 Years