Jihyun Cho
Staff Sensor Hardware Engineer at Tesla
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJihyun Cho is a Staff Sensor Hardware Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with roughly a decade of experience designing sensing systems and silicon for consumer products. He spent nearly ten years at Apple as a sensing and silicon architect, leading designs for proximity and ambient light sensors, digital crowns, laser drivers, and eFuses across AirPods, Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. His background spans from academic research in time-of-flight cameras, neural recording front-ends, and CMOS image sensors to practical low-power, low-voltage sensor implementations. Now at Tesla, he brings systems-level thinking to sensor hardware integration for automotive applications. Jihyun pairs deep analog and mixed-signal expertise with product-driven silicon architecture, and his trajectory reflects an uncommon blend of academic research, military faculty experience, and high-volume consumer product engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MS/BS from Yonsei University.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at University of MichiganMaster of Science (M.S.), Master of Science (M.S.) at Yonsei University
English, Korean
Github Skills (2)
plugin-development9
homebridge9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
senscho/homebridge-tutorial
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Code Repository for Homebridge Plugin Development Tutorial
Contributions:12 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
homebridgeplugin-development
senscho/milespot-astro
Apr 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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