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John Kitaoka

AI/ML Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
jckitaok [at] gmail [dot] com

LinkedIn in/johnkitaoka

About Me

I'm currently working at AWS, where I'm focused on building and evaluating custom multimodal models and advising cloud customers on responsible AI workloads. Feel free to reach out!

My team is currently building safe and secure artificial intelligence solutions to help nonprofits, universities, and government entities. Previously, I developed software to automate business operations for a manufacturing firm, optimized a transit system for the city of Madison, and helped a startup implement marketing analytics as part of a venture capital fellowship. I have a background in computer science and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I worked as a teaching assistant for 3 years.

Written Works

Generative AI in the Public Sector Book Link
AWS eBook | Kitaoka and Various Authors

Hosting and Training LLMs in GovCloud Regions Hosting Blog, Training Blog
AWS Blog Series | Kitaoka and Various Authors

Document Summarization in Healthcare Blog Link
AWS Blog | Kitaoka, Famestad

Public Code and Models

MistralLite amazon/mistrallite
Long-Context LLM | Song, Chen, Kitaoka

Semantic Search and RAG aws-samples/semantic-search-with-amazon-opensearch
Generative AI Workshop, Re:Invent 2023 and 2024 | Li, Kitaoka

Public Speaking

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