Will Ryu
Adjunct Professor Of Business at Tobl Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolWill Ryu is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 14 years building large-scale systems in information retrieval, payments, NLP, flight search, and data visualization, most recently leading AI and product efforts as CEO of Tobl and OXOpolitics and as Adjunct Professor of Business in San Francisco. He spent pivotal years at Twitter and Airbnb designing language processing, search quality, and high-throughput payments and transportation systems, and he authored widely used Korean NLP tools such as open-korean-text. A bilingual author of two Korean books on professional growth and Silicon Valley, Will blends rigorous academic training in information science with hands-on engineering across Java, Scala, Python, and React. He’s turned political data into a community-driven analytics platform (OXOpolitics) and consistently ships production ML and search solutions that bridge research and real-world impact.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Linguistics, Exchange Student Linguistics at University of Hawaii at ManoaMaster of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science, Master of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeAdvanced Certificate ESL, Advanced Certificate ESL at University of the Fraser ValleyPh. D degree seeker Information Science, Ph. D degree seeker Information Science at The University of Texas at AustinMaster of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science, Master of Library and Information Science Library and Information Science at Yonsei University
Korean, English
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Github Skills (52)
translation10
corpus10
similarity10
tokenizer10
wordnet10
text-processing10
emoji9
twitter9
tokenize9
code-review9
natural-language-processing9
morphology9
korean-nlp9
tweet9
text-mining9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/twitter-korean-text
Oct 2014 - Feb 2017
Korean tokenizer
Contributions:25 releases, 162 commits, 54 PRs in 2 years 4 months
korean-tokenizertranslationcorpuswordnetsimilarity
open-korean-text/open-korean-text-api
Feb 2017 - Mar 2021
RESTful web service for open-korean-text
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 4 years 2 months
restfulrestkoreanrest-apiweb-service
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