Jungo Kasai - Co-Founder CTO at Kotoba

Jungo Kasai

Co-Founder CTO at Kotoba

San Francisco, California, United States

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Jungo Kasai is a multilingual machine learning and NLP researcher-engineer with 11 years of experience who combines academic rigor—PhD-level work at University of Washington and a Research Assistant Professorship at TTIC—with entrepreneurial leadership as Co-Founder and CTO of Kotoba. His background spans top research internships (Facebook AI, Microsoft, AI2, IBM) and applied NLP projects, including judging the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE where he evaluated real-world scientific retrieval and summarization systems. Comfortable bridging theory and product, he has applied neural approaches to grammar-informed parsing and language generation while mentoring and teaching NLP at Yale. Based in San Francisco and fluent in English, Chinese and Japanese, Jungo is seeking ML/NLP roles that leverage both deep research experience and startup-building instincts.

11 years of coding experience

3 years of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Washington

Certificate in Chinese Language (Mandarin), Chinese Language and Literature, Certificate in Chinese Language (Mandarin), Chinese Language and Literature at National Taiwan University

Certificate in Chinese Language (Mandarin), Chinese Language (Mandarin) and Literature, Certificate in Chinese Language (Mandarin), Chinese Language (Mandarin) and Literature at Tsinghua University

Certificate in Chinese Language (Mandarin), Chinese Language (Mandarin), Certificate in Chinese Language (Mandarin), Chinese Language (Mandarin) at Beijing Normal University

Bachelor of Science, Statistics (Magna Cum Laude, Distinction in the Major), Bachelor of Science, Statistics (Magna Cum Laude, Distinction in the Major) at Yale University

English, Japanese, Chinese, Chinese

Github Skills (59)

transformer-architecture10

pytorch10

python10

facebook10

natural-language-processing10

ctc10

sequence-to-sequence10

nlp10

sequence10

data-science9

artificial-intelligence9

transformers9

machine-learning9

conformer9

deep-learning9

Programming languages (3)

JavaScriptHTMLPython

Github contributions (5)

jungokasai/bilstm_stagging

Oct 2017 - Mar 2019

Contributions:29 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months

Yale-LILY/graph_parser

Feb 2018 - Sep 2018

Contributions:33 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months

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