John Kitaoka
jckitaok [at] gmail [dot] com
I'm doing AI safety research, mentored by Jacob Merizian via MATS. I'm studying dangerous capabilities and knowledge in AI models.
Previously I worked on AI for the public sector at Amazon Web Services for four years, and I studied math and computer science at Wisconsin. Feel free to reach out!
Building a Production Text-to-SQL Workload for a Public Health Organization Blog Link
AWS Customer Success Story | October 2025
Scaling Production Analytics and Database Utilization for Healthcare Case Study
AWS Case Study | October 2025
Scaling unstructured text analysis with Amazon Nova Blog Link
AWS Blog | August 2025
Host concurrent LLMs with LoRAX Blog Link
AWS Blog | April 2025
Generative AI in the Public Sector Book Link
AWS eBook | November 2024
Hosting and Training LLMs in GovCloud Regions Hosting Blog, Training Blog
AWS Blog Series | June 2024
Document Summarization in Healthcare Blog Link
AWS Blog | February 2024
Media Extraction and Form Filling Architecture aws-samples/sample-bedrock-form-filling
AWS Sample | December 2025
LangChain AWS Contributions GitHub Commits
Open Source | 2025
MistralLite amazon/mistrallite
Long-Context LLM | October 2023
Semantic Search and RAG aws-samples/semantic-search-with-amazon-opensearch
Generative AI Workshop, Re:Invent 2023, 2024, and 2025 | October 2023
Enterprise Security in the Age of AI, Event, LinkedIn
September 2026, South Park Commons, NYC
Red-Teaming Multi-Agent Attacks (MATS 10.0 Spotlight), Recording
August 2026, MATS Symposium, with Thao Pham
Building AI Applications in Isolated Environments
June 2025, AWS Summit DC
Responsible AI
January 2025, AWS Federal Software Workshop
Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Public Safety Link
October 2024, ProPhoenix National User Conference
Training Foundation Models using AWS Custom Accelerators Link
June 2024, AWS Summit DC
Training and Hosting Protein Models on AWS Link
June 2024, AWS Summit DC
Leveraging Foundation Models in AWS GovCloud Regions Link
June 2024, AWS Summit DC
Enhancing Election Infrastructure with Artificial Intelligence
February 2024, AWS x DCCC
Transforming Behavioral Health: Embracing Generative AI Technology to Drive Better Outcomes Link
November 2023, OPEN MINDS
Machine Learning for Public Policy Link
October 2023, United Nations DESA Datathon