About

Young Yoon is a highly skilled Machine Learning Engineer with a passion for recommendation systems, computer vision, and natural language processing. With over 6.78 years of relevant experience, he currently works at LinkedIn as a Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning, where he is responsible for PYMK product development. Before joining LinkedIn, Young worked as a Data Scientist at Accenture, where he implemented entity-resolution ML algorithms in Java, reducing the manual review process for work-authorization software by 80%. He also developed a fraud detection software for asylum officers using Word2Vec model and convolutional filters and edge-detection algorithms in Python, detecting essay plagiarism by parsing essays from image files. Young also scaled and optimized data-preprocessing computation by leveraging the Spark framework. Young's previous experience also includes working as an Engineer Intern at Samsung Austin Semiconductor, where he predicted the cause for 2% yield loss in cellular chips through large-scale linear regression. Young is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering. He has a deep understanding of ML, software engineering, recommendation systems, computer vision, NLP, Word2Vec, data science, research science, Spark, Python, and Java. Overall, Young is a highly motivated and skilled Machine Learning Engineer with a proven track record of delivering high-quality results. He is always eager to learn and explore new technologies and techniques to improve his skills and expertise.