Minho Ryu
Sr. AI Research Engineer at Kakao Corp
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMinho Ryu is a Sr. AI Research Engineer with a decade of experience turning cutting-edge language model research into production-grade systems. At Kakao he co-led the Kanana foundation model series, driving pre-training of a 3T-token dataset, compute-efficient scaling, 128K-token context engineering, and a high-performing Korean embedding model that outperformed larger rivals on native retrieval benchmarks. He built a TPU-focused, JAX/MaxText training pipeline presented at Google Cloud Next 2025 and contributes actively to the open-source ecosystem as a Google Developer Expert and EleutherAI co-lead for Polyglot-Ko. His background blends rigorous academic training in ML and big data with hands-on product and infrastructure delivery across industry and research labs. Notably, he couples deep model engineering with pragmatic system-level optimizations that enable large models to be both efficient and accessible.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Machine Learning & Bid Data Analytics, Master of Engineering - MEng, Machine Learning & Bid Data Analytics at Hanyang University
Korean, English
Github Skills (135)
transformers10
benchmark10
high-resolution10
language-model10
memory-efficient10
parallel10
python10
data-manipulation10
dialog10
flax10
datasets10
transformer-models10
deep-learning10
dialogue-systems10
speech10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bzantium/simplex-method-matlab
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
Simplex Algorithm MATLAB Implementation
Contributions:53 commits, 2 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 months
octavematlabsimplexsimplex-algorithm
bzantium/nlp-tensorflow
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
NLP Tensorflow Tutorials
Contributions:89 commits, 2 PRs, 84 pushes in 21 days
nlpseq2seqtensorflow-tutorialstensorflownatural-language-processing
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