Summary
Bomjun Kwon is a Staff Software Engineer and interdisciplinary scientist with nearly two decades of experience blending acoustics, DSP, embedded systems, and hearing science into production software and research. He invented AUX (Audio syntaX) and built AUXLAB, a MATLAB/DAW-like environment (C++/yacc/lex) for real-time audio generation, visualization and debugging, which he has open-sourced and documented for public use. His career spans academia—where he led NIH- and NIDILRR-funded research, published first-author papers, and trained 50+ students—to industry roles shaping audio DSP products at Cochlear, Garmin, and Qualtrics. Known for shipping end-to-end systems, he combines front-end UI and multi-threaded audio rendering with back-end parsers, signal engines and networking. Based in Vienna, VA, he uniquely bridges clinical expertise in cochlear implants and hearing aids with hands-on software engineering and productization. Colleagues describe him simply as an “audio software guy” who actually builds the languages and tools others use.
9 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University
Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Science, Ph.D., Speech and Hearing Science at University of Iowa