Hyungwon Choi
Lead Of AI Research VP at OMNIOUS.AI
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolHyungwon Choi is a co-founder and Lead of AI Research (VP) at OMNIOUS.AI with 11+ years driving computer vision and deep learning from KAIST research labs to production-grade e-commerce solutions. He has led development and deployment of core models such as OMNIOUS TAGGER and LENS, turning academic work on graphical models and image understanding into scalable services. His background includes DARPA Robotics Challenge vision work and early neuromorphic-system prototyping, reflecting a blend of robotics, embedded systems, and visual AI. Currently focused on building generic, self-supervised models to broaden task coverage, he combines rigorous PhD-level research with hands-on engineering and startup leadership in Seoul. Less obvious: his trajectory shows a pattern of turning competitive research efforts (DARPA, KAIST programs) into commercial products and new ventures.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Korean Minjok Leadership AcademyPh.D. Candidate, Computer Vision, Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Vision at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, Korean
Github Skills (10)
loss4
margin3
facebook3
imagenet2
datasets2
security2
visual-recognition2
deep-learning2
metric-learning1
pytorch1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hyungwonchoi/caffe
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 day
deep-learningpytorchcaffemachine-learning
hyungwonchoi/siamese-triplet
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Siamese and triplet networks with online pair/triplet mining in PyTorch
Contributions:9 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
pytorchminingdeep-learningtripletsiamese
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