Summary
Hyeseon Ko is a research engineer with nine years of experience at the intersection of NLP, neuroimaging analysis, and industry-scale search systems, currently contributing to NAVER Cloud. She holds a top-grade master's in computer engineering from Sungkyunkwan University and has international study experience in mathematics and computer science via exchanges at Edinburgh and Nanyang Technological University. Her work spans academic research—using fMRI data for sentence classification and diverse text generation with autoencoders—to applied R&D roles at NAVER Corp and internships that fed into production search research. She has taught and lectured extensively on data structures, databases, machine learning, and practical AI topics for industry partners like Samsung SDS and LG, demonstrating an ability to translate theory into hands-on training. Based in Seongnam-si, South Korea, she combines rigorous academic grounding with practical engineering experience and a curiosity for cognitive signals in language models. Outside of work she’s an avid traveler and dog lover, a personal trait that often surfaces in bilingual notes and collaboration style.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange program, Mathematics, Exchange program, Mathematics at The University of Edinburgh
Exchange program, Computer Science, Exchange program, Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 4.5/4.5, Master's degree, Computer Engineering, 4.5/4.5 at Sungkyunkwan University
English, Korean, Spanish