Summary
Chanjun Park is an Assistant Professor in the School of Software at Soongsil University and an NLP researcher with eight years of experience bridging academic research and industry product work. His background spans a PhD in Natural Language Processing from Korea University, research roles in ASR at SYSTRAN, and leadership of an LLM team at Upstage, where he moved models from research prototypes toward applied systems. Comfortable both in lab settings and in production-focused teams, he has worked on speech and large-language models and advised by Heuiseok Lim during his doctoral work. Based in Seoul, he combines rigorous academic methods with hands-on engineering, mentoring students while driving applied NLP projects. A less obvious strength is his track record of transitioning between deep research roles and technical leadership, making him adept at translating novel algorithms into deployable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Natural Language Processing at Korea University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Natural Language Processing & Creative Convergence, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Natural Language Processing & Creative Convergence at Pusan University of Foreign Studies
Korean, English, Japanese