Byeongchang Kim
Machine Learning Engineer at 당근
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolByeongchang Kim is a machine learning engineer at Karrot in Seoul with 11 years of experience spanning NLP research and quantitative trading. He earned a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Seoul National University, supported by Google and NAVER PhD Fellowships, and has authored widely-cited work on knowledge-grounded dialogue and multimodal models. At SNU he built large datasets, novel model architectures, new decoding methods, and a ~200-GPU compute cluster, bridging research and production infrastructure. After academia he applied his research rigor to quant trading at a startup, designing scalable models and infrastructure that outperformed market benchmarks for three consecutive years. Now he focuses on home feed recommendation systems, combining deep NLP expertise with hands-on systems engineering. An underappreciated strength is his ability to move projects end-to-end—from dataset curation and model innovation to deployment at scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at 서울대학교 (Seoul National University)
English, Korean
Github Skills (59)
scanning10
slam10
robotics9
localization9
ros9
clipboard9
nlp8
sequential8
sequence8
tmux8
vim8
ctc8
android8
jupyterlab-extension8
natural-language-generation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bckim92/fira-2017-cv
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
bckim92/DQN_gym
May 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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