Yongsung Kim
Machine Learning Engineer at Adobe
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYongsung Kim is a Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience and a 9+ year R&D background building full-stack, production-grade systems that integrate LLMs, embeddings, and NLP techniques to improve human-AI interaction. Currently contributing to generative AI initiatives at Adobe after founding Skeema—a human-centered browser tab manager that reached Product Hunt top-10—he blends startup product instincts with rigorous academic training (PhD from Northwestern, MS from EPFL). His work spans research-to-product pipelines, demonstrated by impactful academic-industrial internships (Microsoft, Nokia Bell Labs) and practical deployments of decision-theoretic notification systems and engagement-driven mobile apps. Known for turning cutting-edge research into scalable services, he emphasizes retention and real-world utility—once driving 80% weekly retention and thousands of users in a single launch. Based in San Jose, he brings a rare mix of entrepreneurship, human-centered research, and hands-on ML engineering to generation-scale AI products.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Technology and Social Behavior, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Technology and Social Behavior at Northwestern UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Korean, English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
swift10
macos10
ios10
cocoapods9
objective-c9
xcode9
carthage8
meteor2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NUDelta/hitorwait-flask
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 2 months
NUDelta/supplyman-ios
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch, 5 tags in 1 year 4 months
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