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Woosuk Kwon

About

I am the co-founder and CTO of Inferact, a startup advancing the frontier of AI inference. 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

Inferact
Co-founder and CTO
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