Biography
Dr. Chun is a patent attorney and judicial law clerk for Chief Judge Kimberly A. Moore at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Prior to clerking, Dr. Chun practiced patent law at Fish & Richardson, a leading intellectual property law firm, joining the firm in 2017. He primarily specialized in obtaining patents for clients ranging from multinational technology companies to solo inventors with a particular focus on artificial intelligence/machine learning, medical devices, and robotics. Dr. Chun earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School where he was managing editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and a former student fellow at the Petrie Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Before law school, he attended the University of Oxford, completing his PhD/DPhil in engineering science. Working at the University of Oxford’s Computational Health Informatics Laboratory and the Nuffield Department of Population Health, Dr. Chun’s research focused on utilizing machine learning approaches for assessing stroke risk in a contemporary Chinese cohort of 0.5 million individuals. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Chun contributed to the United Kingdom’s pandemic response as a health data analyst for the Alan Turing Institute’s DECOVID initiative. Dr. Chun also holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from MIT with a minor in management science.