Jung-woo Ha is a leading AI strategist and research executive with over a decade of experience bridging academic machine learning and national-scale AI policy. He has headed NAVER’s AI labs and hyperscale research centers, co-directed major university-industry AI institutes, and now serves as AI Future Planning Senior Secretary to the President of South Korea, shaping public AI initiatives. A PhD-trained machine learning scientist, he has chaired program and social committees for top conferences like ICML and NeurIPS and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. Beyond technical leadership, he co-leads a large civic science NGO to democratize AI literacy, publishes regular columns, and maintains an active scholarly profile—evidence of a rare mix of research depth, public-facing communication, and policy influence.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. (공학박사) Machine learning Artificial Intelligence (Computer Science), Ph.D. (공학박사) Machine learning Artificial Intelligence (Computer Science) at Seoul National University
ClovaCall dataset and Pytorch LAS baseline code (Interspeech 2020)
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