About Jon Chun

I work at the seam between AI and the human. I help build applied humane studies: 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.

At Kenyon College I am a visiting instructor of humanities and affiliated scholar in scientific computing. With Katherine Elkins I co-founded the AI CoLab and Kenyon's human-centered AI curriculum in 2016. I am principal investigator for the Modern Language Association at NIST CAISI, and co-PI on the Schmidt Sciences HAVI project Archival Intelligence.

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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