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Woosuk Kwon

About

I am a software engineer and researcher focused on AI infrastructure. I co-created and now co-lead the vLLM project, a widely-adopted open-source inference engine for LLMs.

Education

UC Berkeley
Ph.D. in Computer Science
Advisor: Ion Stoica
GPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Seoul National University
B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
B.S. in Mathematical Sciences
GPA: 4.18 / 4.30 (Rank: 1st / 134)
Includes 2 years of mandatory military service

Experience

Thinking Machines Lab
Member of Technical Staff
Google DeepMind
Research Scientist

Awards

Sequoia Open Source Fellows
a16z Open Source AI Grant
KFAS Scholarship
Full tuition and stipend for PhD study