Hong-hoe Kim
Machine Learning Engineer at Apple
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHong-hoe Kim is a machine learning engineer with 13 years of experience and a PhD in computer science from Texas A&M, currently working on LLM research at Apple. He has led applied research and production efforts across recommendation systems, on-device multimodal models, and generative AI during a multi-year tenure at Samsung Research America, authoring patents and publications along the way. His work spans model distillation, on-device arbitration between local and cloud LLMs, VLM-based UI navigation, and practical video/image super-resolution for consumer devices. He combines academic rigor with product-focused execution—transitioning research prototypes into deployed features and leading small teams and interns. An active program committee member for conferences like RecSys, he bridges academic reviewing and industrial delivery. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings deep experience integrating ML research into real-world TV and mobile platforms.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Soongsil UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Texas A&M University
English, Korean
Github Skills (6)
tensorflow7
recurrent-neural-networks6
convolutional-neural-networks6
java3
tomcat2
apache2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aydenkim/CSCE431AnswerKey
Feb 2016 - Sep 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 8 months
aydenkim/EasySketch
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:34 pushes in 3 months
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