Jeremy Kun
Personal
Name | Jeremy Kun |
Research summary | I am a theoretical computer scientist with broad interests, including complexity theory, graph theory and network science, learning theory, combinatorics, and geometry. My research to date focuses on theoretical and applied graph theory. I currently work as a backend engineer at 21 Inc. |
jeremy /at/ 21.co | |
Webpage | https://jeremykun.com |
Education
2011 - 2016 | Ph.D in Mathematics
University of Illinois at Chicago. Expected 2016. |
2007 - 2011 | B.S. in Mathematics, Minor in Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University. Magna Cum Laude. |
2010 | Budapest Semesters in Mathematics. Graduated with honors. |
Work Experience
2016 - present | Backend Engineer. 21 Inc.
Built the Django backend for a task marketplace, including surveys, branching task pipelines, and automated reviews. Additional roles building an elasticsearch integration, doing ad hoc data science, maintaining an open-source bitcoin wallet (two1-python), and a mobile developer. |
2013 - 2014 | Graduate Research Assistant. MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
Research on graph representation learning, data mining on large networks. Proved theorems, designed algorithms, ran experiments, and wrote technical research papers. |
2011 - 2013 | Graduate Teaching Assistant. University of Illinois at Chicago.
Taught calculus and introductory computer science. |
2008 - 2009 | Junior Developer. CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing.
Designed and developed a new accounting gateway infrastructure for a growing tech start-up, including writing thousands of lines of Java and SQL. Completed a technical writing training program. |
Summer 2005 - 2007, Summer 2010 | Camp Counselor. Adventure Day Camp.
Child care ages 4-11. |
Contract Work
2014 - 2015 | Technical Reviewer, Doing Math with Python. No Starch Press.
Publication date: 2015-05-25 |
2012 - Present | Webmaster, QED Math Symposium. Chicago Public Schools. |
Professional Programs
June 2014 | Network Science Week. American Mathematical Society Mathematics Research Community.
Received mentoring, engaged in research to attack open problems, and developed new collaborations. |
Summer 2013 | Ph.D Student Intern. MIT Lincoln Labs.
Research on machine learning in large graphs. |
Summer 2012 | Ph.D Student Intern. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Data mining research in wind energy and plasma physics. |
Summer 2009 | Software Developer Intern. Amazon.com.
Worked on the message-passing framework in a million-line service-oriented C++ architecture which regulated inventory in all of Amazon's warehouses. |
Programming
Portfolio | |
Top Language | Python |
Competent Languages | Python, Java, C, C++, Haskell, Racket, HTML/CSS, Mathematica, Javascript/Node/ES6 |
Familiar Languages | R, Perl, Bash, PHP, SQL |
Publications
2016 | Graphs, New Models, and Complexity. Jeremy Kun. The University of Illinois at Chicago. |
2016 | A Confidence-Based Approach for Balancing Fairness and Accuracy. Benjamin Fish, Jeremy Kun, Adam Lelkes. SIAM International Symposium on Data Mining. |
2016 | Interception in Distance-Vector Routing Networks. David Burstein, Franklin Kenter, Jeremy Kun, Feng Shi. Journal of Complex Networks. |
2015 | On the Computational Complexity of MapReduce. Benjamin Fish, Jeremy Kun, Adam Lelkes, Lev Reyzin, Gyorgy Turan. International Symposium on Distributed Computing. |
2015 | Network Installation Under Convex Costs. Alexander Gutfraind, Jeremy Kun, Adam Lelkes, Lev Reyzin. Journal of Complex Networks. |
2015 | Fair Boosting: a Case Study. Benjamin Fish, Jeremy Kun, Adam Lelkes. International Conference on Machine Learning Workshop on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning. |
2015 | Open Problem: Learning Quantum Circuits with Queries. Jeremy Kun, Lev Reyzin. Conference on Learning Theory. |
2014 | A Boosting Approach to Learning Graph Representations. Rajmonda Caceres, Kevin Carter, Jeremy Kun. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining Workshop on Mining Networks and Graphs. |
2014 | On Coloring Resilient Graphs. Jeremy Kun, Lev Reyzin. Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science. |
2013 | Anti-Coordination Games and Stable Graph Colorings. Jeremy Kun, Brian Powers, Lev Reyzin. Syposium on Algorithmic Game Theory. |
Awards
2014 | Dean's Scholar Award.
To provide the most distinguished, advanced-level graduate students with a period of time dedicated solely to the completion of their programs. Granted by University of Illinois at Chicago.
Monetary value of $25,000. |
2015 | Best Student Poster Award.
For the poster 'Information Monitoring in Routing Networks'. Granted by SIAM Network Science 15.
Monetary value of $100. |
2011 | Charles J. Hanks Excellence in Mathematics Award.
Demonstrated excellence and outstanding ability. Granted by California Polytechnic State University. |
2010 | Robert P. Balles Mathematics Award.
Highest GPA in mathematics coursework after three years. Granted by California Polytechnic State University. |
2007 | Eagle Scout Award.
Troop 234 of Moraga, CA. Granted by Boy Scouts of America. |
2009 | 3rd Place in a Collegiate Regional Programming Contest.
Three-person team programming tasks. Granted by Association for Computing Machinery. |
2007 | Black Belt, First Degree.
Kang's Tae Kwon Do Academy. Walnut Creek, CA. Granted by World Tae Kwon Do Federation. |
Other
Blog |
In-depth presentation of technical topics with full implementations in code. As of February 2017: 236 published posts, 2000 word average post length, over 3.5 million page views since June 2011. |