Journey

One spine, several tracks

● engineering · ● music · ● community · ● education

MS in Artificial Intelligence — Northeastern University, Seattle

Jan 2026 – present

Machine learning, reinforcement learning, applied programming for AI. Expected Dec 2027.

Multimodal ML Engineer Intern — Gobi (AI smart glasses)

Aug 2025 – present

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

Aug 2025 – present

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

Mar 2025 – Jun 2025

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

Dec 2024 – Jul 2025

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

Jun 2024 – present

Korean tech community, ~1,500 members. Career Connect with the Korean Consulate, AI seminars, the works.

Software Engineer Intern — Dark Tonic / Blunderbusted

May 2024 – Dec 2024

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

Oct 2023 – Jun 2024

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

Aug 2019 – Aug 2025

Algorithms, OOP, databases, software engineering, distributed systems, testing & QA.