About Jon Chun

I work at the seam between AI and the human. I build Human-Centered AI: using machine learning and AI to take the oldest human questions seriously, and to connect the people across academia, industry, and government who can answer them. (I call the applied wing of this work applied humane studies.)

At Kenyon College I am a visiting instructor of humanities and affiliated scholar in scientific computing. With Katherine Elkins I co-founded the world's first human-centered AI curriculum and lab at Kenyon in 2016. I co-lead the team representing the Modern Language Association at NIST CAISI, and am co-PI on the Schmidt Sciences HAVI project Archival Intelligence. See how the work is cited across fields →.

Before Kenyon I co-founded and led SafeWeb, an internet privacy company acquired by Symantec, and hold two US patents on early VPN-appliance technology.

I hold a B.S. in EECS from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.

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