I'm an AI research engineer with strong foundations in both research and practical engineering:
- 🔬 Research background: 10+ publications in top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, CVPR, AAAI) with 1.7 K+ citations
- 💻 Engineering experience: Building scalable AI systems serving 5M+ MAUs
- 🌉 Bridge builder: Transforming cutting-edge research into technologies that actually enhance people's lives
- 🍸 Fun fact: I'm a licensed (by the Korean Government) home bartender in my free time!
I believe the most exciting AI innovations happen when research meets real-world applications. My work focuses on:
- 🧠 Multimodal AI systems that combine vision and language
- 🤖 Building autonomous agents with memory and personalization
- 🔄 Diffusion models and generative AI
- 🚀 Scaling research prototypes to production-ready systems
I love meeting curious minds and sharing ideas. Whether you're a fellow researcher, student, entrepreneur, or just someone interested in AI - I'd be happy to chat!
📅 Book a virtual coffee chat with me - 45 minutes of free-form conversation about AI, research, career paths, or anything that sparks your interest.
⭐ Check out some of my open-source work:
- open-world-agents - Real-time desktop environment for ML development
- awesome-visual-representation-learning-with-transformers - An awesome repository from 2021, when Vision Transformer research was in its early renaissance.