Joon Choi
Director at Samsung Semiconductor US
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJoon Choi is an AI/ML engineering leader and director based in San Jose with a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and over eight years of post-PhD experience bridging research and production. He leads Applied ML teams at Samsung Semiconductor US, building RAG-based LLMs, RTL code generation for Verilog, DNN kernel libraries, and researching computationally efficient and multimodal LLM methods for AI accelerators. His background spans academia as an assistant professor and deep industry experience at Qualcomm and Samsung, giving him a rare fluency in algorithm development, hardware-aware model optimization, and product-driven engineering. Joon combines strong academic publication and research skills from his Purdue Ph.D. with hands-on systems delivery across camera ISP, high-performance computing, and chip-centric ML tooling. An early-career product planner and former military interrogator, he brings multidisciplinary communication and operational rigor to complex AI engineering programs.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electronics Engineering at Sogang UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
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Github contributions (3)
jhchoi0908/consensusNet
Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
jhchoi0908/mlailab-skku.github.io
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
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