Sungpack Hong
Vice President, AI Research And Development, Database
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolSungpack Hong is a seasoned research and engineering leader with 14 years of experience driving AI, database, and systems innovation, currently serving as Vice President of AI Research and Development for Database at Oracle in Palo Alto. He leads early-stage research across AI agent foundations, data retrieval, and database-native AI infrastructure, blending deep systems expertise from Stanford PhD work in hardware/parallelism with practical productization at Oracle Labs. His career tracks from FPGA and transactional-memory research to building graph engines, distributed SQL systems, and AI/ML platforms, reflecting a rare full-stack view of hardware-software co-design through to enterprise AI services. Known for turning advanced research into production-ready database capabilities, he also brings cross-domain experience in cybersecurity, explainability, and graph analytics. An underappreciated strength is his history of hands-on low-level implementation—FPGA prototypes and graph engine designs—that informs pragmatic, performance-focused AI infrastructure decisions.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and TechnologySeoul Science School, Seoul Science School at Seoul Science High SchoolPh D Electrical Enginerring, Ph D Electrical Enginerring at Stanford University
Korean, English
Github Skills (4)
dsl10
graph-analysis9
graph9
graph-algorithms9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
stanford-ppl/Green-Marl
Jan 2012 - May 2014
A DSL for efficient Graph Analysis
Contributions:503 commits in 2 years 5 months
graph-analysisdslgraph-algorithmsgraph
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