Junwoong Yoon
ML Research Scientist at Meta
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJunwoong Yoon is an ML research scientist with a PhD in Chemical Engineering and an MS in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon, bringing seven years of experience bridging deep learning research and production ML. He currently builds recommendation and short-video ranking models for Instagram Reels at Meta, after PhD work applying deep learning to materials design, climate problems, and other engineering domains. His background in chemical engineering gives him a physical-science perspective that informs robust model design and problem framing for real-world systems. Junwoong has industrial research experience from Amazon on generalization for large-scale time-series forecasting, showing strength in scaling research to production needs. He is based in Pittsburgh and maintains a public research portfolio demonstrating a blend of theoretical rigor and applied impact. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who moves ideas from experiments to deployable ML components.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS, Machine Learning, Master of Science - MS, Machine Learning at Machine Learning Department at CMUDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, ENGINEERING at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (33)
geometric-deep-learning9
pytorch9
materials-informatics9
computational-chemistry9
graph9
deep-learning9
chemistry9
graph-neural-network9
graph-convolutional-networks9
estimate8
reinforcement-learning7
huggingface7
deep-reinforcement-learning7
uncertainty6
q-learning6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
junwoony/junwoony.github.io
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:11 pushes in 1 day
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
junwoony/duplicate-question
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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