Aram Chung
Professor at MxT Biotech
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolAram Chung is a professor of biomedical engineering at Korea University and co-founder & CEO of MxT Biotech, bringing nine years of professional experience that bridges academic research and biotech entrepreneurship. Trained as a mechanical engineer with an MS and PhD from Cornell and a BS from Seoul National University, he has held faculty positions in the US and Korea and progressed steadily from assistant to full professor. He combines hands-on technical depth—evident in open-source front-end contributions to the widely used p5.js creative coding library—with leadership in translating biomedical engineering research into commercial ventures. Based in Seoul, he blends rigorous academia with practical product development, often applying computational and design-minded approaches to biological problems. A detail that surprises: alongside running a startup and a lab, he still contributes to code documentation and feature validation in community-driven projects.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, B.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National UniversityPh.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (5)
javascript10
p5js10
documentation10
html6
coding5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
processing/p5.js
Mar 2017 - Jun 2022
p5.js is a client-side JS platform that empowers artists, designers, students, and anyone to learn to code and express themselves creatively on the web. It is based on the core principles of Processing. http://twitter.com/p5xjs —
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 66 commits, 23 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aram primarily contributed to the documentation and functionality of the p5.js library, which is a client-side JavaScript platform for creative coding. Their work included updating the documentation for core functions like `frameRate()`, adding browser support warnings for the `touches[]` array, and implementing parameter validation for 2D primitives like `arc()`, `ellipse()`, and `line()`. Further contributions included fixing trailing whitespaces and cleaning up code.
designersprinciplesartclient-sidecanvas
almchung/p5-fes-i18n-book
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:76 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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