Joonyoung Yi
Director, Head Of AI Lab (Hyperconnect AI) at HYPERCONNECT
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolJoonyoung Yi is an AI/ML leader with 10 years of experience who currently heads Hyperconnect AI, driving product impact across recommendations, trust, and related machine learning systems. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Hyperconnect from machine learning engineer to director, blending hands-on model development with team and lab management. A KAIST-trained engineer with a double major background, he pairs strong research foundations with entrepreneurial experience as a former startup founder and CEO. Based in Seoul, he is known for translating AI research into production features that measurably improve user experience and platform reliability. Notably, his career combines deep technical execution with repeated team-building across analytics, ML engineering, and product-focused AI initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Double Major in School of Computing), Bachelor's Degree, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Double Major in School of Computing) at 한국과학기술원(KAIST)
Korean, English
Github Skills (32)
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jquery8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
JoonyoungYi/neural-branch-predictor
May 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 4 pushes in 8 months
JoonyoungYi/MCAM-numpy
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:33 commits, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
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