Sihoon L
NLU Language Specialist at Cerence Inc.
Seoul, United States
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Top SchoolSihoon L is an NLU Language Specialist and former ESL practitioner turned computational linguist with eight years of experience bridging language teaching and applied NLP. Currently working on in-car speech recognition at Cerence, he has two years focused on NLP, ML, text mining, and annotation/validation, with research internships spanning computational phonology, semantics, and AI fairness. His technical toolkit includes Python, R, SQL, spaCy, scikit-learn and speech toolchains like SpeechRecognition and Pydub, complemented by practical data work with Pandas and regex. Past projects include interactive LLM training, an ableist-language detection model, and patent language modeling, reflecting both applied system-building and language-focused research. He also brings classroom-tested insights from years teaching K–12 and university linguistics courses, giving him a strong sense for language pedagogy and human-centered evaluation. Based in Seoul with a background in VR/AR Unity development, he blends linguistic rigor with multimodal and production-oriented engineering sensibilities.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Education - BEd, English/Language Arts Teacher Education, Bachelor of Education - BEd, English/Language Arts Teacher Education at Sangmyung UniversityMaster of Arts - MA, Applied Linguistics with emphasis in TESOL, Master of Arts - MA, Applied Linguistics with emphasis in TESOL at Texas A&M University-CommerceMaster of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics at Syracuse University
Korean, English
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Github contributions (5)
nepnep123/FinderAndHider
Nov 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
nepnep123/ArtilleryTraining
Nov 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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