Summary
Jiwan Jeong is a tech leader and data scientist with 10 years of cross-disciplinary experience building end-to-end data systems and production software. Currently leading engineering and data efforts at NAVER in Seoul, he brings research-grade rigor from a PhD and postdoctoral work at MIT where he re-architected the LobbyView money-in-politics database, automated large-scale data ingestion, and built entity-resolution pipelines for millions of records. He has a strong track record mentoring teams and shipping robust pipelines across academia and industry, previously leading a news-data team at IBS and developing recommendation and analytics systems in startups and media companies. Jiwan combines hands-on full-stack engineering with deep data-science expertise, able to move projects from raw, messy sources to scalable, well-modeled products. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who thrives in startup-like, interdisciplinary environments and who brings uncommon experience translating political and financial data into production-ready datasets.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Visiting Student, Information Science, Visiting Student, Information Science at Cornell University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Korean Minjok Leadership Academy
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Korean, English