Heewon Jeon
Leader at NAVER Corp
South Korea
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolHeewon Jeon is a leader in NLP and large-scale LLM platform architecture with 12+ years applying machine learning to real-world products across NAVER and SK Telecom. He has driven HyperCLOVA/CLOVA X platform and Skill/plugin systems, led document intelligence and Clova Note NLP, and built production models for contact centers, legal QA, summarization, segmentation and translation. Creator and maintainer of widely used Korean NLP open-source projects (KoBERT, KoGPT2, KoBART, PyKoSpacing) and a GluonNLP committer, he is passionate about democratizing Korean language models. His background spans production ML for telco analytics (credit scoring, churn, forecasting) to conversational AI, combining deep research instincts with product-facing engineering. He also teaches and consults at top institutions, an indicator of both domain authority and practical mentorship.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
the doctor´s course Information extraction, the doctor´s course Information extraction at Korea UniversityB.S Engineering, B.S Engineering at Inha University 인하대학교Bachelor of Information Statistics Applied Statistics, Bachelor of Information Statistics Applied Statistics at Korea National Open UniversityKunsan Highschool
Github Skills (130)
mxnet10
natural-language-generation10
phonetics10
text-processing10
thesaurus10
cjk10
corpus10
sec10
bart10
katakana10
topic-modeling10
nlp10
latent-dirichlet-allocation10
r-package10
nlg10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SKT-AI/KoBART
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:43 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 11 months
language-modelbartsummarizationkoreankorean-nlp
haven-jeon/LegalQA
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Korean LegalQA using SentenceKoBART
Contributions:82 commits, 11 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 year 4 months
nlpkorean-languagesimilarity-searchsearch-enginesemantic-search
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