Heesuk Son
Research Scientist at Meta
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeesuk Son is a research scientist with a decade of experience applying advanced machine learning to real-world problems, currently optimizing ad systems at Meta's Ads Core ML team. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science from KAIST and postdoctoral experience at MIT, he blends deep academic rigor with production-focused engineering. He enjoys hunting down hard problems—sometimes non-computational ones—bringing a curiosity-driven approach to model design, experimentation, and deployment. Based in Bellevue, WA, he has navigated both academic and industry environments, translating novel research into scalable solutions for high-throughput advertising systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange student, Engineering, Exchange student, Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at 한국과학기술원(KAIST)
English, Korean
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
access-control6
cors6
cross-domain6
maven6
paho6
http-get6
eclipse6
malloc6
intellij-idea6
Github contributions (5)
HeesukSon/Java-Collections-Framework
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
HeesukSon/home-sensor-project
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Contributions:74 commits, 51 pushes, 6 branches in 27 days
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