Summary
Jongwook Woo is a Los Angeles-based educator and technology leader with 12 years' experience in Big Data and scalable predictive analytics. As a Full Professor at California State University, Los Angeles, he teaches and researches with Spark, Hadoop, Rapids, TensorFlow, NoSQL databases, and BI tools, spanning information retrieval, integration, and distributed computing. He directs the BigDAI/HiPIC research center, a long-standing initiative he founded to advance data analytics and IoT-driven vision across industry and academia. His work is deeply embedded in global industry partnerships, including Databricks Academic Partner, NVIDIA DLI Instructor, AWS and Azure grants, and Cloudera training partnerships. He has advised and engineered solutions for a wide range of organizations—from Samsung and Igloo Security to Warner Bros and the City of Los Angeles—demonstrating a unique ability to translate cutting-edge data science into real-world impact.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Southern California
Japanese, Korean, English