Hyeondeok Jang is a venture capitalist and former 6G AI engineer with a decade of experience bridging deep technical research and early-stage investment in Seoul. He holds dual bachelor's degrees in Electronics and Business and completed an MS in Electrical Engineering, currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, bringing rigorous academic grounding to deal sourcing and technical due diligence. At Samsung Research he led industry-academic projects, authored and co-authored multiple IEEE papers and patents on wireless systems and PAPR reduction, demonstrating hands-on expertise in next‑generation networks. As a VC team lead at Albatross and now DSC, he combines product-level engineering insight with post-investment management to help startups scale. His open-source CI/CD contributions to the QMCPACK project reveal a pragmatic focus on reproducible testing and build automation for high-performance scientific software. Comfortable switching between lab benches, codebases, and boardroom decks, he uniquely evaluates investments through both technical merit and commercial viability.
Main repository for QMCPACK, an open-source production level many-body ab initio Quantum Monte Carlo code for computing the electronic structure of atoms, molecules, and solids with full performance portable GPU support
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Contributions:3 reviews, 135 commits, 81 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Hyeondeok primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the project's build and testing infrastructure. Their contributions include adding a flag for a Multi-Precision Computation (MPC) test, removing statistically failing tests from the nightly dashboard, and integrating a deterministic test for the Jastrow optimizer. Additionally, the user made adjustments and updates to the nightly test scripts for various system configurations, demonstrating expertise in CI/CD and test automation.
Main repository for QMCPACK, an open-source production level many-body ab initio Quantum Monte Carlo code for computing the electronic structure of atoms, molecules, and solids.
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Hyeondeok Jang - Venture Capitalist (팀장) at DSC인베스트먼트