Myungha Jang

Ph.D., Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest

Contact:
[my-first-name-and-last-name]@gmail.com

Biography

I am a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Pinterest. Previously, I was a Senior Research Scientist at Meta (2019-2023) and I earned my PhD in Computer Science, with a focus in Information Retrieval, from UMass Amherst under Prof. James Allan in the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). Here is a copy of my CV and Google Scholar.

I occasionally write things in my Korean blog So Dabang. I'm also an asipiring Youtuber, though it's not always easy to find time to create new videos when I get busy with work.

How to pronounce my name: You can think of it as pronouncing [Mee-young-ha] fast. Check out my my tutorial video .

News

Jan. 2024 Our paper "Towards Evidentiality-Aware Retrieval for Abstractive Tasks: Overcoming Abstractiveness in Open-Domain Question Answering," which I collaborated on with a team at Data & Language Intelligence lab at Yonsei University, has been accepted for EACL findings 2024!
Aug 2023 I started a new position at Pinterest as a Machine Learning engineer, working to improve the related pins feed recommendation relevance.
Jan. 2022 I'm serving on a panel to discuss the trend of AI research and career in Silicon Valley at AIAI 2021 workshop .
all. 2021 I gave an invited career talk at Sungshin Women’s University, Ewha Womans University, and Yonsei University.
Mar. 2021 Our U.S. patent, "Methods for automated controversy detection of content", has been granted!
Sep. 2020 Our paper, "Explaining Text Matching on Neural Natural Language Inference" is published in ACM TOIS.
Jul. 2019 I'm serving on a program committee at the 3rd International Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks (MAISoN) 2019, which is co-located with ICTIR 2019, in Santa Clara, CA.
Feb. 2019 I started at Facebook.
Jan. 2019 I successfully defended! My PhD thesis is available online here.
Apr. 2018 Our short paper, "Explaining Controversy on Social Media via Stance Summarization" has been accepted to SIGIR 2018!

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013 - 2019
Advised by Prof. James Allan
M.S., Computer Science, POSTECH, South Korea, 2011 - 2012
Advised by Prof. Seung-won Hwang
Early Graduation
B.S., Computer Science, Ewha Womans University, South Korea, 2006 - 2011
Graduated with Magna Cum Laude

Academia Experience

Research Assistant, Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval , University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2013 - 2019

Research Assistant, Data Intelligence Lab, POSTECH, 2011 - 2012

Undergraduate Research Intern, Bioinformatics Lab, Ewha Womans University, 2008 - 2010

Industry Experience

Machine Learning Software Engineer Intern, Facebook, CA, 06/2017 - 08/2017

Research Intern, IBM T.J. Waston Research Center, NY, 05/2015 - 08/2015
Worked with Kenneth W. Church

Honors/Awards

2016 KSEA-KOCSEA Graduate Scholarship
2016 UKC Best Poster Award
2014 Anita Borg Grace Hopper Scholarship
Student Travel Award from 2011 AAAI, 2016 SIGIR, 2016 CIKM
Magna Cum Laude, Ewha Womans University
2012 Silver Prize Ewha Senior Capstone Design Contest
2010 Undergraduate Research Program (URP) Fellowship ($10,000), funded by Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Creativity
2010 KB Bank Study Abroad Scholarship ($12,000)
Dean's List Scholarship 2008-2010

Services

2017-18 New Students Committee at UMass
2014-15 CS Women Group Co-chair at UMass
2014-15 Social Committee at UMass CS
2006-08 An administrator at Ewhaian.com

Last modified Date: Jan 22, 2024