Kenneth Hung - Research Scientist at Meta

Kenneth Hung

Research Scientist at Meta

San Francisco Bay Area United States

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Kenneth Hung is a research scientist at Meta with nine years of experience applying mathematical statistics, experimental design, and causal inference to high-impact product and research problems. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from UC Berkeley, where his dissertation focused on conditional inference, and brings a strong theoretical grounding to practical data science work. At Meta he contributes to the Central Applied Science and Core Data Science teams, translating rigorous statistical methods into production-ready analyses. Earlier roles span quantitative research at Citadel, internships and research fellowships at Caltech, and software engineering experience on Facebook’s Pages team—an uncommon blend of deep theory and production engineering. He also contributes to open-source tooling for developer workflows, keeping package definitions current in widely used Homebrew cask repositories, reflecting attention to reproducibility and tooling details.

9 years of coding experience

1 year of employment as a software developer

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at California Institute of Technology

Chinese, English, Chinese

Github Skills (8)

homebrew10

homebrew-cask10

yaml10

software-packaging9

shell8

script8

sh8

scripting8

Programming languages (1)

Ruby

Github contributions (5)

Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions

Oct 2018 - Sep 2019

💀 Alternate versions of Casks (deprecated)

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:26 commits, 26 PRs in 11 months

Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily focused on updating Cask files within the homebrew-cask-versions repository. Their contributions involved updating the version and SHA256 checksum for various RStudio preview releases. Additionally, the user updated the iterm2-beta cask. Their work ensures that the cask definitions are up-to-date, enabling users to easily install the latest versions of these software packages.

caskscaskhomebrewalternate

kenhungkk/kenhungkk.github.io

Mar 2017 - Aug 2022

Contributions:169 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months

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