Woosuk Kwon is an AI inference infrastructure researcher who co-founded Inferact and vLLM, an open-source inference engine for large language models. Woosuk Kwon's Twitter Score is 24 out of 1000 as of October 2026, ranking #40,986 (top 10%) among 498,348 tracked accounts.
Woosuk Kwon co-created vLLM and developed PagedAttention, a memory-management algorithm that sits at the core of the engine. The project delivered throughput improvements of 2-4x at equivalent latency compared with FasterTransformer and Orca, and in 2023 received an open-source AI grant from Andreessen Horowitz. Woosuk Kwon is also a Sequoia Open Source Fellows affiliate.
Woosuk Kwon co-founded Inferact, which raised $150M at an $800M valuation in a round led by a16z and Lightspeed, per public reporting. Previously, Woosuk Kwon was a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and a Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab. Woosuk Kwon's account has 9,269 followers as of October 2026 and 432 posts, and has been mentioned by 14 accounts a total of 16 times.
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