Summary
Cloud Cho is a Director and machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience applying AI, computer vision, and statistical methods to aerospace and embedded systems. He has led algorithm strategy and integration efforts across startups and defense/aerospace labs, turning research-grade ML into production-ready guidance, sensing, and simulation solutions. At rocketroom he’s building ML-based spacecraft guidance and a novel secondary-combustion thruster, reflecting a blend of software, hardware, and systems engineering uncommon for pure ML leaders. His background spans hands-on image processing and sensor fusion at Sony and HRL to manufacturing and quality roles in aerospace, giving him a rare end-to-end perspective from component inspection to deployed autonomy. Based in Herndon, VA, he combines deep technical leadership with practical prototyping skills and an appetite for greenfield innovation.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion Manufacturing Engineering, Certificate of Completion Manufacturing Engineering at El Camino College
MS Aerospace Engineering, MS Aerospace Engineering at San José State University
BS Electrical Electronic & Control Engineering, BS Electrical Electronic & Control Engineering at Chung-Ang University
AS Accounting, AS Accounting at Glendale Community College
Gaebong Elementary School
Youido High School