Young Kang
Lead Applied Scientist at Salesforce
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYoung Kang is a Lead Applied Scientist with nine years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems across search, speech recognition, and computer vision at companies including Microsoft, Salesforce, Qualcomm, and Samsung. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from UIUC and has moved research innovations—ranging from microring resonator simulations to production-grade ASR and speaker verification—into real-world products. At Microsoft he contributed to Bing search, and at Salesforce he led ASR and language-model engineering efforts, blending deep research with pragmatic systemization. Early work on image processing for QLED Ambient Mode and converting platform docs for Tizen show a practical eye for both product features and developer-facing content. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous academic methods with scalable engineering to deliver robust ML pipelines in consumer and cloud environments.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (5)
markdown10
markdown-it10
documentation10
html9
tizen8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Samsung/tizen-docs
Jul 2017 - May 2022
This project is for writing Tizen documents for platform and application developers. The documents will be published to the new Tizen portal site.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:1 release, 56 reviews, 389 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Young's commits focused on converting Tizen documentation from HTML to Markdown format. They modified HTML files, creating table of contents (TOC) files and index files to organize and display the content. The changes also included modifications to HTML files to accommodate markdown rendering.
tizenpublishedportal-siteportal
journey2w/Nepal
Jun 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 years
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