Koki Mashita
Machine Learning Researcher at Berkeley RISE Lab
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2025 - Current
ML Researcher
2024 - 2024
Research in LLM fine-tuning/alignment/evals @ LMSYS (advised by Prof Ion Stoica & Prof Joseph Gonzalez)
UC Berkeley RISELab develops technologies that enable applications to make low-latency decisions on live data with strong security.
Member of Technical Staff
2022 - 2024
Atmo is the world's leading AI-weather forecast builder, providing forecasts for the DoD, the entire Republic of the Philippines and more. I am currently trying to figure out how ensemble models can better understand physics and create a better way to evaluate deep-learning models.
Ultra-precise AI weather forecasts for governments and enterprises.
Raised $11,200,000.00 from Y Combinator.
Venture
2021 - 2024
HOF Capital is a global multistage VC firm with $1 billion in AUM that partners with ambitious entrepreneurs from idea to IPO.
Stagiaire de Cuisine
2023 - 2023
A cook at a two star Michelin French restaurant. Worked on garniture and dressing.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
2020 - 2023
+ Nominated as one of the 101 Best & Most Active Los Angeles Private Equity Firms by Investor Available + Non-cyclical algorithm + Capital Management of over 1,600,000 USD
CEO & Co-Founder
2020 - 2022
+ U.S. Patent Pending + Selling reusable tampon applicators that are better for the environment + Organic tampon subscriptions + Featured on DesignWanted & USA Wire & 10 Tampa Bay
Founder
2015 - 2019
+ Helping clients sell their used items in Singapore + Refurbished a lot of Macbooks... + Reached over 100,000 USD in revenue