Shotaro Ishihara

Shotaro Ishihara

Developer Advocate

Google

Biography

I’m a Developer Advocate, Cloud AI, Google. I’m responsible for sharing information and relaying requests from Japan back to the team. While studying computer science at university, I was also involved in a university press. My research interest lies in building, evaluating, and communicating AI systems for information ecosystems: how people create, access, evaluate, and act on information. I have published four books, written newsletters, and organized community events, as summarized on the DevRel page. I enjoy participating in machine learning competitions and won the first place on a Kaggle competition, and hosted a Kaggle Days Tokyo competition. The International News Media Association gave me “ 30 Under 30 Awards and Grand Prize” in 2020.

Interests

  • AI for Information Ecosystems
  • Trust and Risk of LLMs
  • Data Science Competitions & DevRel

Education

  • Bachelor in Engineering, 2017

    The University of Tokyo

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Developer Advocate, Cloud AI

Google Cloud Japan G.K.

August 2026 – Present Tokyo, Japan
Developer Advocate, Cloud AI for Google’s global Cloud AI team. I’m responsible for sharing information and relaying requests from Japan back to the team. To help boost AI adoption in Japan, I’m normally working from Japan, so please feel free to reach out for speaking engagements, info exchanges, or anything else.
 
 
 
 
 

Nikkei Inc.

October 2017 – August 2026 · 8 yrs 11 mos Tokyo, Japan
Senior Research Scientist
April 2022 – August 2026 · 4 yrs 5 mos
Research and development on LLMs for news media, covering both applications in editorial workflows and the evaluation of trustworthiness and risk.
Research Scientist
April 2021 – March 2022 · 1 yr
Conducted applied research on NLP and ML for news media, publishing results at international conferences.
Data Scientist
October 2017 – March 2021 · 3 yrs 6 mos
Built ML models and analyzed user behavior for digital subscription services, working with editorial, engineering, and business teams.
 
 
 
 
 

Editor-in-Chief

The University of Tokyo Newspaper

April 2013 – March 2017 Tokyo, Japan
Led editorial operations and reporting, spearheaded the launch of the digital news platform (Todai Shimbun Online), and developed programmatic automation for campus news.

Contact

I welcome inquiries about talks and lectures, interviews, and writing. Please feel free to reach out using the contacts below.

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