Hyeseon Ko
Research Engineer at Penn State University
Seongnam-si, South Korea
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Top SchoolHyeseon Ko is a research engineer with nine years of experience at the intersection of NLP, neuroimaging analysis, and industry-scale search systems, currently contributing to NAVER Cloud. She holds a top-grade master's in computer engineering from Sungkyunkwan University and has international study experience in mathematics and computer science via exchanges at Edinburgh and Nanyang Technological University. Her work spans academic research—using fMRI data for sentence classification and diverse text generation with autoencoders—to applied R&D roles at NAVER Corp and internships that fed into production search research. She has taught and lectured extensively on data structures, databases, machine learning, and practical AI topics for industry partners like Samsung SDS and LG, demonstrating an ability to translate theory into hands-on training. Based in Seongnam-si, South Korea, she combines rigorous academic grounding with practical engineering experience and a curiosity for cognitive signals in language models. Outside of work she’s an avid traveler and dog lover, a personal trait that often surfaces in bilingual notes and collaboration style.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange program, Mathematics, Exchange program, Mathematics at The University of EdinburghMaster's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at Sungkyunkwan UniversityExchange program, Computer Science, Exchange program, Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, Korean, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (26)
nlg7
nlp6
embedding6
natural-language-processing6
grads6
seq2seq6
adversarial-attacks6
data-augmentation5
style-transfer5
natural-language-generation5
artificial-intelligence4
data-science4
machine-learning4
text-classification4
text-processing4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hyeseonko/LeetCode
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:2012 commits, 1868 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
hyeseonko/Algorithm-Baekjoon
Apr 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:183 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
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