Journey
One spine, several tracks
MS in Artificial Intelligence — Northeastern University, Seattle
Machine learning, reinforcement learning, applied programming for AI. Expected Dec 2027.
Multimodal ML Engineer Intern — Gobi (AI smart glasses)
Solo owner of ASR, speaker ID, voice-to-face association, and egocentric activity detection pipelines. Speaker-ID precision +20% via diarization × face co-occurrence fusion; inference latency −15%.
TH Cho — POP OUT! debut album
Dark noir cyberpunk record, bilingual KOR/ENG — 13 tracks, out July 7, 2026. Lead single 'Dawn To Night' out.
High-Performance Computing Researcher — UW Research Computing Club
Multi-GPU training for large transformers 20% faster (PyTorch/TensorFlow on the Hyak cluster); AWS Neuron SDK with Inferentia & Trainium for +15% inference efficiency; Slurm/MPI at scale.
Software Engineer — Tiptop Technologies
Python/Flask APIs for high-volume payment processing — API response times +25%; data extraction pipelines hitting 95% success across platforms with financial-grade security compliance.
Founding organizer, Changbal YP Chapter — 창발 Seattle
Korean tech community, ~1,500 members. Career Connect with the Korean Consulate, AI seminars, the works.
Software Engineer Intern — Dark Tonic / Blunderbusted
Led modular C# system architecture with unit testing and peer reviews — integration time −15%; memory and performance +17% via compression and version control.
NLP Research Analyst — Seattle Children's Research Institute
900+ unstructured interview transcripts → k-means + LDA to surface latent patterns in homelessness and mental-health outcomes; NLTK/TextBlob sentiment pipeline. Presented at the UW Research Symposium.
BS, Applied & Computational Mathematics + Data Science — University of Washington
Algorithms, OOP, databases, software engineering, distributed systems, testing & QA.