Young Jung
Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoung Jung is a machine learning engineer with 8 years of experience blending research and production-grade systems, currently advancing data-centric AI for multimodal foundation models and agentic systems at Apple. He has a PhD from KAIST and a track record of translating ML research into deployable software across domains including genomics, video, and high-performance distributed systems. At Inocras he led genomic foundation models and an ultra-sensitive MRD detection pipeline (JCO 2025), while also cutting cloud pipeline costs by 80% through HPC/cloud re-architecting. His KAIST work produced BWA-MEME, a widely deployed, ML-accelerated read alignment tool that reduced compute and memory overheads substantially, and LiveNAS, an online super-resolution system for live video (SIGCOMM 2020). Young combines domain depth in genomics with systems-level optimization skills, making robustness and generalization arise from smarter data and architecture choices rather than just larger models. Based in San Diego, he favors pragmatic, cost-aware solutions that scale from lab validation to production.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering at 한국과학기술원(KAIST)Technical University of Denmark
English, Korean
Github Skills (30)
package-management10
conda10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
bioconda9
sequence9
video-streaming9
illumina8
computational-biology8
machine-learning8
sequence-alignment8
phasing8
webrtc8
next-generation-sequencing7
ortc7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kaist-ina/BWA-MEME
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
BWA-MEME: Faster BWA-MEM2 using learned-index
Contributions:6 releases, 73 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 4 months
alignment-algorithmindexlearnedbwangs
kaist-ina/bioconda-recipes
Apr 2022 - Aug 2023
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Contributions:58 pushes in 1 year 4 months
biocondabioinformaticsrecipesconda
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