Heeyoung Kwon
AI Engineer at Distyl AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeeyoung Kwon is an AI engineer with 11 years of experience combining deep academic training (PhD in Computer Science from Stony Brook) with applied research and product work at Meta and Distyl AI. At Meta she led efforts in generative AI capabilities, response personalization, and time-aware retrieval, and earlier contributed to Instagram feed ranking and early-stage ranking systems. Her background as a PhD researcher and teaching assistant gives her strong foundations in machine learning, databases, and research-to-production engineering. Now based in New York, she focuses on building practical GenAI systems that bridge rigorous research and scalable deployment. Notably, she transitioned from multi-year research roles into product-facing AI engineering, signaling strength in both experimentation and shipping robust models. She is currently not seeking new roles but remains engaged in advancing capability-driven AI features.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Yonsei UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Korean, English
Github Skills (5)
nlp3
scale3
large-scale3
natural-language-processing3
pytorch2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
StonyBrookNLP/PostModifierGeneration
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:18 commits, 3 pushes in 3 days
StonyBrookNLP/PeKo
Oct 2020 - Dec 2021
A Large scale Precondition Knowledge dataset
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 year 2 months
pytorchnlppreconditionknowledgedataset
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