Summary
Hyojun Im is a visionary technology leader and Senior Research Fellow / Vice President at LG Electronics with 11+ years in advanced computing and over two decades at LG driving platform and kernel innovations. He holds a Ph.D. in Wireless Networks from Seoul National University and has led cross-disciplinary teams delivering IoT platforms for white goods, site leadership for webOS on TV/signage, and long-running Linux kernel optimizations such as snapshot boot and memory-footprint reduction. As an architect and manager of large engineering teams, he built LG’s corporate open source compliance process and launched full-time contribution efforts that shifted company practices. His work bridges deep systems-level expertise with product-facing platform strategy, enabling research-to-production transitions at scale. Based in Seoul, he combines academic rigor with pragmatic execution, often navigating chip-level porting and performance engineering that few product leaders handle directly.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Wireless Network, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Wireless Network at Seoul National University