Jon Chun

Background

About Jon Chun

Research scientist and AI leader specializing in interdisciplinary ML/AI applications across high-impact domains. Over the past decade, I've mentored 400+ original AI/ML projects spanning nearly every academic discipline—from narrative and medicine to security and political science—with work downloaded 85k+ times by institutions including Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Amazon, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.Currently serving as tech lead for the 25k-member MLA team in the NIST US AI Safety Institute for LLM red/blue team testing, while co-authoring international AI policy research for ICML and leading tabular LLM recidivism prediction benchmarking for Notre Dame's Tech Ethics Lab on an IBM grant. My research focuses on machine psychology/Theory of Mind, Affective AI, multi-agent workflow automation, and AI ethics/benchmarking.Technical expertise spans LLM development and auditing, multimodal AI, automated agent frameworks, game theory simulations, and applying SOTA research to real-world problems in finance, healthcare, law, and narrative. I translate cutting-edge research into measurable products and services, having co-founded the world's first human-centered AI program bridging academia, research, and industry best practices.Background includes Fortune 500 Director roles, Silicon Valley startup co-founder/CEO, and international experience across the US, Japan, and Latin America. Fluent in English, Japanese, and Spanish. Published researcher with patents spanning gene therapy to AI policy, passionate about collaborative solutions to complex, cross-disciplinary challenges.