Donghyun Kim
Staff Research Scientist at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonghyun Kim is a Staff Research Scientist based in Sunnyvale with nine years of experience building personalization, recommendation, and content-understanding systems informed by deep learning. He advanced from research roles at Yahoo—where he led news stream personalization and trending-term recommendation—to senior and now staff research positions at Meta focusing on ads ranking and large-scale user behavior modeling. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from POSTECH, he blends strong academic foundations with production-focused experimentation on user and content signals. Colleagues rely on him to translate behavioral insights into ranking models that improve engagement metrics, and he is known for bridging rigorous research with pragmatic engineering at internet scale. An under-the-radar strength is his cross-domain fluency across news, ads, and product metrics, enabling rapid adaptation to new personalization challenges.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Pohang University of Science and Technology
Korean, English
Github Skills (36)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
natural-language-processing10
nlp10
transformers9
language-model9
bert9
tensorflow9
speech-recognition9
cuda9
transformer9
gpt8
jax8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cartopy/cartopy.github.io
Oct 2018 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
cartopy/ConvMF
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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