Byung-gon Chun
Chief Executive Officer at FriendliAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolByung-gon Chun is a founder and CEO based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building high-performance AI infrastructure and inference platforms through FriendliAI. He combines deep academic roots—a PhD from UC Berkeley and a faculty role at Seoul National University—with hands-on industry experience at Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo Research, and Intel Labs developing large-scale ML frameworks and DL runtimes. His work focuses on speed, cost-efficiency, and reliability for LLM serving and training, translating research-grade compiler and optimization techniques into production systems. As a professor and serial researcher, he uniquely bridges cutting-edge DL compiler research with practical inference engineering, accelerating AI deployment at scale.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMS, Electronic Engineering, MS, Electronic Engineering at Seoul National UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (66)
opencl10
java10
csharp10
webservice10
parallelization9
javascript9
spirv9
tvm9
django9
big-data9
data-processing9
python9
gpu9
deep-learning9
metal9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
swsnu/aisys2021
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
swsnu/aisys2023
Jan 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:11 commits, 37 pushes in 1 month
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