Po-nien Kung
PhD Candidate
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPo-nien Kung is a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at UCLA with 11 years of hands-on software and research experience across industry and academia. Currently a Student Researcher at Google, he has blended deep learning research internships at Zoom and Microsoft with applied roles at MediaTek Research and National Taiwan University under Prof. Yun-Nung Chen. His background spans full-stack web development, LAMP-based real-time apps, and ML research—evidenced by freelance web projects for major blockchain events and production-focused engineering at Gridwell. Comfortable moving between research and product teams, he brings practical deployment experience alongside academic rigor and a curiosity for bridging applied systems with cutting-edge AI. An interesting thread through his career is consistently shipping small, impactful web products while pivoting into progressively deeper ML research roles.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, CS, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, CS at 加州大學洛杉磯分校Bachelor's degree, Computer science and information technology, Bachelor's degree, Computer science and information technology at 國立臺灣大學
Github Skills (5)
computer-vision3
datasets3
multimodal2
assistants2
foundation-models1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
MiuLab/FastMTL
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
billkunghappy/ponien-kung
Nov 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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