Derek Hommel - Head Of AI at Gena AI

Derek Hommel

Head Of AI at Gena AI

Seoul, South Korea

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Derek Hommel is Head of AI with nine years of experience building production NLP and speech systems, currently leading R&D on GenaSQL and a commerce agent at Gena AI. Trained in computational linguistics at Seoul National University, he previously led Atlas Labs’ NLP, TTS, and chatbot efforts with hands-on experience in Korean speech generation, MT, and summarization. His background spans software engineering and language instruction, reflecting a rare mix of applied ML, multilingual expertise (Japanese and Korean), and classroom pedagogy from Fulbright and EPIK roles. Active on GitHub under atlasderek and degenarek, he frames his work as teaching machines language the way he once taught people, combining research rigor with product-focused deployment.

9 years of coding experience

7 years of employment as a software developer

Master's Program, Computational Linguistics, 4.0, Master's Program, Computational Linguistics, 4.0 at Seoul National University

Computer Software Engineering, 4.0 GPA, Computer Software Engineering, 4.0 GPA at Rochester Institute of Technology

Japanese Language and Culture, Japanese Language and Culture at Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies

Korean Language, Korean Language at Keimyung University

Bachelor's of Arts, Japanese Language and Culture, 3.89, Bachelor's of Arts, Japanese Language and Culture, 3.89 at University of Rochester

Japanese, Korean, English

Github Skills (8)

keras10

lstm10

bilstm10

crf10

named-entity-recognition9

nlu8

recurrent8

tensorflow8

Programming languages (2)

JavaScriptJupyter Notebook

Github contributions (5)

SNUDerek/multiLSTM

Dec 2017 - Aug 2018

keras attentional bi-LSTM-CRF for Joint NLU (slot-filling and intent detection) with ATIS

Contributions:37 commits, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months

bilstmcrfkerasnlulstm

SNUDerek/NER_bLSTM-CRF

Aug 2017 - Jun 2018

LSTM-CRF for NER with ConLL-2002 dataset

Contributions:15 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months

crflstmnamed-entity-recognitionlstm-crfkeras

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