Summary
Byung-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.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
MS, Electronic Engineering, MS, Electronic Engineering at Seoul National University
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Stanford University