Taegyun Kwon
CEO & Cofounder at SORI
Daejeon, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolTaegyun Kwon is a music-AI founder and researcher with a decade of experience translating real-time audio understanding into practical products; he is CEO and cofounder of SORI, building audio-to-MIDI, expressive accompaniment, and practice feedback to make playing more interactive and rewarding. He holds an M.S., Ph.D., and postdoc from KAIST GSCT where his doctoral work produced fast, robust piano transcription, score alignment, and expressive performance models now shipping in live and studio settings. A 2024 Sejong Science Fellow ($500k), Taegyun blends lab rigor with stagecraft—creating Disklavier-based interactive concerts and AI-human co-creation pieces that connect research to audience-facing experiences. He has industry research internships at NAVER and SK Telecom, reviews for ISMIR/NeurIPS/ICML, and has served as DEI chair for ISMIR 2025, reflecting both technical leadership and community stewardship. Based in Daejeon, he focuses on real-time AMT, multimodal capture, and music edtech UX, driven by a mission to keep hobbyists playing and give serious musicians instant, musical feedback.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree Graduate School of Culture and Technology, Master's degree Graduate School of Culture and Technology at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Github Skills (21)
music-generation10
magenta10
music9
deezer8
generative-art8
machine-learning7
bass6
audio-processing6
python6
source-separation5
tensorflow5
deep-learning5
pytorch4
parser2
mojo2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mac-marg-pianist/midi_utils
May 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
TaegyunKwon/pyScoreParser
Jan 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 39 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 8 months
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