Ning Kang is a senior software engineer with 26 years of experience building software systems, combined with a research background in artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing. Today at ING, he works on business-critical payment messaging and builds AI agents that participate in real engineering workflows, from architecture and coding to testing, investigation and software delivery.

Earlier in his career, Ning worked as an AI and NLP researcher at Erasmus University Medical Center and Elsevier. He holds a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. He has authored or co-authored 16 research papers, including first-author publications in leading biomedical informatics journals, and received Distinguished Paper and Journal Eligible Paper recognition at the 2010 AMIA Annual Symposium.

His PhD dissertation, Using Natural Language Processing to Improve Biomedical Concept Normalization and Relation Mining, was published in 2013 as a book with ISBN 978-90-6464-691-1.

His current focus is on applying AI agents to real-world software engineering, with an emphasis on reliability, evidence-based decision making and human oversight.