Hyokun Yun
Scholar

Hyokun Yun

Google Scholar ID: W4oOmZEAAAAJ
Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon
Machine LearningStatisticsArtificial IntelligenceNatural Language ProcessingOptimization
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
957
 
H-index
11
 
i10-index
13
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
28
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Thesis: Doubly Separable Models and Distributed Parameter Estimation
  • Paper: Robustness to Capitalization Errors in Named Entity Recognition
  • Paper: Scaling Multinomial Logistic Regression via Hybrid Parallelism
  • Paper: Deep Active Learning for Named Entity Recognition
  • Paper: Distributed Stochastic Optimization of the Regularized Risk
  • Paper: WordRank: Learning Word Embeddings via Robust Ranking
  • Paper: Nomadic Computing for Big Data Analytics
  • Paper: A Scalable Asynchronous Distributed Algorithm for Topic Modeling
  • Paper: Ranking via Robust Binary Classification and Parallel Parameter Estimation in Large-Scale Data
  • Paper: NOMAD: Non-locking, stOchastic Multi-machine algorithm for Asynchronous and Decentralized matrix completion
  • Paper: How to Filter out Random Clickers in a Crowdsourcing-Based Study?
  • Paper: Efficiently Sampling Multiplicative Attribute Graphs Using a Ball-Dropping Process
  • Paper: Quilting Stochastic Kronecker Graphs to Generate Multiplicative Attribute Graphs
  • Book Chapter: Valid Prior-Free Probabilistic Inference and its Applications in Medical Statistics
  • Software: NOMAD: Non-locking, stOchastic Multi-machine algorithm for Asynchronous and Decentralized matrix completion
Research Experience
  • Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon LLC (current)
  • Machine Learning Intern, Amazon LLC, Summer 2013
  • Research Intern, Microsoft Research India, Fall 2012
  • Predictive Analytics Intern, Blizzard Entertainment, Summer 2012
  • Internship Researcher, Max Planck Institute Tuebingen, Summer 2011
  • Associate Researcher, Cyram(c), 2006 - 2008
  • Internship Consultant, Accenture Company, Summer 2005
Background
  • Machine Learning Scientist, with research interests in efficient optimization algorithms for large-scale machine learning and statistical modeling of graphs.
Miscellany
  • Hope to see more international presence of POSTECH alumni; please feel free to contact if I could be of any help.