Myungha Jang

News

1. Sep 2026

   I participated as a panelist in the Women in AI Career Workshop 2026 at Ewha Womans University, supported by the Google ExploreCSR Workshop Series.

2. Jul 2025

   I gave a talk on modern recommendation systems at Yonsei University, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), and Naver.

3. Jan 2025

   I joined Netflix as a Research Engineer on the Member AI Evals and Understanding team, working on LLM-based user simulation.

4. Jan 2024

   Our paper “Evidentiality-aware Retrieval for Overcoming Abstractiveness in Open-Domain Question Answering,” a collaboration with the Data & Language Intelligence Lab at Yonsei University, was accepted to Findings of EACL 2024.

5. Aug 2023

   I started a new position at Pinterest as a Machine Learning Engineer, working to improve the relevance of related-pins feed recommendations.

Earlier news

1. Jan 2022

   I served on a panel on trends in AI research and careers in Silicon Valley at the AIAI 2021 workshop.

2. Fall 2021

   I gave invited career talks at Sungshin Women’s University, Ewha Womans University, and Yonsei University.

3. Mar 2021

   Our U.S. patent, “Methods for automated controversy detection of content,” was granted (US 10,949,620 B2).

4. Sep 2020

   Our paper “Explaining Text Matching on Neural Natural Language Inference” was published in ACM TOIS.

5. Jul 2019

   I served on the program committee of the 3rd International Workshop on Mining Actionable Insights from Social Networks (MAISoN) 2019, co-located with ICTIR 2019 in Santa Clara, CA.

6. Feb 2019

   I started at Facebook (now Meta).

7. Jan 2019

   I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis, which is available online here.

8. Apr 2018

   Our short paper “Explaining Controversy on Social Media via Stance Summarization” was accepted to SIGIR 2018.

Experience

Industry

1. Jan 2025 – Present

   Senior Research Engineer · Netflix

   Member AI Evals and Understanding. Working on LLM-based user simulation.

2. Aug 2023 – Jan 2025

   Senior Machine Learning Engineer · Pinterest

   Improved the relevance of related-pins feed recommendations.

   ML Tech Lead, Aug 2024 – Jan 2025.

3. 2019 – 2023

   Senior Research Scientist · Meta (formerly Facebook)

   Research Scientist 2019–2022, promoted to Senior Research Scientist in 2022.

4. Jun – Aug 2017

   Machine Learning Software Engineer Intern · Facebook, CA

5. May – Aug 2015

   Research Intern · IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY

   Worked with Kenneth W. Church.

Academia

1. 2013 – 2019

   Research Assistant · Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, UMass Amherst

2. 2011 – 2012

   Research Assistant · Data Intelligence Lab, POSTECH

3. 2008 – 2010

   Undergraduate Research Intern · Bioinformatics Lab, Ewha Womans University

Selected Publications

A selection of my work. The full list is on Google Scholar.

Education

1. 2013 – 2019

   Ph.D., Computer Science · University of Massachusetts Amherst

   Advised by Prof. James Allan

2. 2011 – 2012

   M.S., Computer Science · POSTECH, South Korea

   Advised by Prof. Seung-won Hwang. Early graduation.

3. 2006 – 2011

   B.S., Computer Science · Ewha Womans University, South Korea

   Graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Honors & Awards

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

Service

• 2017–18 New Students Committee, UMass Amherst
• 2014–15 Co-chair, CS Women Group, UMass Amherst
• 2014–15 Social Committee, UMass Amherst CS
• 2006–08 Administrator, Ewhaian.com

Beyond work