Dongwoo Kim is a principal science leader with a decade-plus track record building and scaling ML teams and infrastructure across Microsoft and startups. He has led applied science and ML platform teams to deliver production features for sales workflows at Outreach and enabled large-scale model adoption and advanced tooling—like ML-assisted labeling and contextual bandits—across Azure and Office/Bing. At Microsoft he currently leads safety alignment and open-source release efforts for Phi-3, blending research rigor with production concerns. Trained as a Stanford PhD in electrical engineering with an MS in financial mathematics, he pairs deep theoretical background with hands-on engineering and product impact. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex modeling and deployment challenges into operational systems that measurably improve customer outcomes.
5 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology
Seoul Science High School
PhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
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Dongwoo Kim - Principal Science Manager at Microsoft