Co-Creator, Human-Centered AI Curriculum · Founding Co-Director, AI CoLab · Kenyon College

Jon A. Chun

AI research scientist specializing in LLM security evaluation, multi-agent systems, and applied ML. Hands-on implementation from GPT-2 (2019) through contemporary LLMs. PI for Schmidt Sciences; PI representing the 25,000-member MLA at the US AI Safety Institute (NIST CAISI). Published in ICML, ACL EMNLP, Frontiers in Computer Science, and Narrative, with 10 papers under review at top-tier 2026 venues. Created SentimentArcs, an open-source methodology adopted globally. Prior industry: co-founded SafeWeb ($26M acquisition by Symantec; first In-Q-Tel security investment); two US patents.

NIST CAISI
Principal Investigator
Representing MLA · LLM red/blue team testing
Schmidt Sciences
PI & AI Architect
1 of 23 worldwide · Archival Intelligence
ICML 2024
Oral Presentation
Top 2% · Open-source generative AI
SafeWeb → Symantec
Co-Founder & CEO
$26M acquisition · First In-Q-Tel security investment
95k+
Downloads of mentored student research from 4,000+ institutions worldwide
22
Papers published or under review at top-tier venues (2026)
2
US patents on network security (Symantec)
5
Languages: English, Japanese, Spanish, French, Chinese
Technical Expertise

Building AI systems that ship

AI & ML: Full-stack development from GPT-2 through contemporary LLMs (GPT-4, Claude, Llama, Mistral). Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, HuggingFace Transformers. LLM red/blue team testing, threat modeling, vulnerability detection, XAI, uncertainty quantification. Created SentimentArcs (open-source, adopted globally). Multi-agent architecture design, game theory simulations, automated agent frameworks, multimodal AI.

Earlier career: C/Assembly/UNIX systems programming (Lawrence Berkeley Labs). Enterprise security architecture. Two US patents on network security. Japanese semiconductor patent analysis (SEMATECH). Medical informatics (AHA Research Fellow).
Selected Publications

Research at the frontier

Computational Methods & Multi-Agent Systems
"AgenticSimLaw: A Juvenile Courtroom Multi-Agent Debate Simulation for Explainable High-Stakes Tabular Decision Making"
Accepted, LaMAS 2026 (with K. Elkins and Y. S. Lee, Notre Dame)
"Syntactic Framing Fragility: An Audit of Robustness in LLM Ethical Decisions"
arXiv, December 2025 (with K. Elkins)
"AIStorySimilarity: Quantifying Story Similarity Using Narrative"
ACL EMNLP/CoNLL, Miami, 2024
"MultiSentimentArcs: Affective AI and Multimodal Diachronic Sentiment Analysis"
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2024
"eXplainable AI with GPT4 for Story Analysis and Generation"
International Journal of Digital Humanities, Vol. 5, 2023 (with K. Elkins)
Governance, Security & AI Policy
"Risks and Opportunities of Open-Source Generative AI"
Proceedings of ICML 2024 · Oral presentation (top 2%)
"If Open Source is to Win it Must Go Public"
Spotlight talk, CODEML, ICML 2025
"Informed AI Regulation: Comparing the Ethical Frameworks of Leading LLM Chatbots"
arXiv, 2024 (with K. Elkins)
"Comparative Global AI Regulation: EU, China, and the US"
arXiv, 2024 (with C. Schroeder de Witt & K. Elkins)
Interdisciplinary Methods
"Can GPT-3 Pass a Writer's Turing Test?"
Journal of Cultural Analytics 5(2), 2020 (with K. Elkins) · 362+ citations
"What the Rise of AI Means for Narrative Studies"
Narrative 30(1), 2022 (with K. Elkins)
"The Crisis of Artificial Intelligence: A New DH Curriculum for Human-Centered AI"
Int. J. Humanity and Arts Computing 17, 2023

10 additional papers under review at ICML, FAccT, UAI, CogSci, TMLR, DMLR, and Journal of Cyber Policy (2026). GitHub →

Applied Technology & Industry

Research that shipped

SafeWeb, Inc.
Co-Founder, President & CEO
Built world's largest online privacy service (2B transactions in 8 months). $11M VC; first security investment from In-Q-Tel (CIA venture fund). Sold to Symantec for $26M at 35× trailing revenue.
Symantec Corp.
Director, Development
Post-acquisition integration. Launched Clientless VPN Gateway in one quarter, under budget. Zero attrition.
BWG Strategy LLC
AI Expert & Industry Analyst
Featured speaker on OpenAI/Microsoft, open-source regulation, Google Gemini, IBM Watson. Current.
US Patents
Network Security
US Patent 7,730,528 B2 — Intelligent Secure Data Manipulation. US Patent 8,065,520 — Encrypted Communications to Secure Server. Both assigned to Symantec.

Earlier: UC Berkeley COE Entrepreneur in Residence · Latin eVentures CTO ($8M raised) · Lawrence Berkeley Labs Research Programmer · SEMATECH Japanese Semiconductor Analyst · MMS Int'l / McGraw-Hill Tokyo

Education

From Berkeley to Austin

UC Berkeley
B.S., EECS
Honors · Tau Beta Pi · Eta Kappa Nu
UT Austin
M.S., EECS / Biomedical Engineering
Highest Honors · Focus: Cognitive Science
University of Iowa College of Medicine
AHA Research Fellow
Published research on gene therapy and EHR systems
MIT Japan Program
Advanced Technical Japanese
NSF / US Navy Scholarship
Get in Touch

Let's connect

jonchun@outlook.com
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