Jun Kang
Senior Software Engineer at Blink Health
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJun Kang is a Senior Software Engineer at Blink Health with nine years of experience combining production engineering and NLP research. He completed a PhD-focused trajectory at Stony Brook University where he advanced neural language generation—proposing the PoMo task and dataset—and worked on deception detection, connotation analysis, and applying NLP to public health problems like predicting restaurant hygiene from reviews. Jun has a track record of taking research into deployable systems, from enterprise log-analysis and big-data monitoring prototypes at CA Technologies to shipping software at Blink Health. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he brings deep expertise in language generation models and practical experience building scalable analysis pipelines. An early career background in network security and wireless research gives him an unusually broad systems perspective for an NLP specialist.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at State University of New York at Stony BrookMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Yonsei University
Github Skills (23)
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
nltk7
morphology7
text-mining7
nlp7
korean-nlp6
natural-language-processing6
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
language-processing3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
StonyBrookNLP/PoMo
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:50 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
StonyBrookNLP/PostModifier
Jul 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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