Jonghwa Y
AI Research Engineer at Tether.io
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJonghwa Y is an AI research engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in generative vision models, vision-language systems, and robust ML for noisy, real-world data. He earned his MS in Computer Science while working at Samsung, where he progressed from Android image-processing work to leading research in multi-task learning, continual learning, and Bayesian optimization. Jonghwa has driven end-to-end projects—from dataset curation and model training to deployment—across startups and large companies, including building browser-based AI agents and automated CI/CD evaluation pipelines. His recent work focuses on video and image generation, virtual try-on, and agentic VLMs that summarize and act on security footage, and he’s known for practical innovations like dataset-customized T2I fine-tuning and zero-shot multimodal detection. Based in Durham, NC, he blends hands-on engineering with research instincts, often inventing dataset and tool-calling techniques to unlock performance in production settings.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Myungduk Foreign Language High School 명덕외국어고등학교Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Hanyang University
Korean, English
Github Skills (62)
expressjs10
imap9
smtp9
styled-components9
nodejs9
react9
nginx9
nextjs8
pop38
spring-boot8
dovecot8
mysql8
docker7
atomic6
typescript6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jonghwajoa/MakeBlog
Dec 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:92 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
jonghwajoa/MHMM
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Messenger Service
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 55 pushes in 9 months
messengerpython
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