Justin Cho
Member Of Technical Staff at Intology
California, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Cho is a machine-learning researcher and engineer with eight years of experience building and evaluating conversational AI and personalized generation systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Intology and a PhD student in Natural Language Processing at USC ISI. His work spans industry research internships at Amazon and Meta—where he developed test-time scaling for personalized text generation and applied RLHF for speech-optimized responses—and multi-year projects evaluating LLMs as conversational moderators to improve online discourse. He combines deep academic rigor (ACL and NAACL publications) with production-minded applied science, having moved ideas from experimentation to deployed pipelines during internships. Trained at HKUST and USC, Justin brings a practical curiosity—evident from projects ranging from improvisational-dialogue corpora to speech-centric preference collection—that helps bridge research insights and real-world conversational products.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaAmerican Community School of Abu DhabiHong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Github Skills (129)
transformers10
language-model10
trello10
python10
dialog10
deep-learning10
markdown10
knowledge-graph10
mturk10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
graph10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wise-east/spolin
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
Repo for SPOLIN corpus and paper "Grounding Conversations with Improvised Dialogues" (ACL2020)
Contributions:7 commits, 18 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 2 months
nlpacl2020corpusconversationsdialogues
wise-east/ased_dialogue
Dec 2019 - Mar 2021
dialogue system api for ASED
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 3 months
apidialogue-systemdialogue
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