Data Team Lead
ThanksCarbon
Jun 2026 — PresentLeads development of a multilingual farmer-evidence platform and coordinates a team working across remote sensing, computer vision, and AI products.
• Lead the architecture and development of ASKER, a multilingual conversation-first platform using guarded LLM workflows to collect auditable field boundaries, agricultural operations, photos, and voice evidence from smallholder farmers for future digital MRV programs.
• Lead the data team across remote sensing, computer vision, and AI product development, coordinating technical priorities and integration with MRV platforms.
Machine Learning Engineer
ThanksCarbon
Mar 2024 — May 2026Built satellite-imagery models for rice-field detection and delineation, forest monitoring, and photo-based irrigation classification; reported F1 78.3% and IoU 0.738.
• Developed an AWD detection model for Cambodia rice fields using Sentinel-1 and AlphaEarth; achieved a 78.3% F1 score, outperforming research benchmarks (74.2%) using a company project dataset.
• Developed a rice paddy delineation model for MRV platform projects using high-resolution satellite imagery and open-source datasets, achieving an IoU score of 0.738.
• Developed an AI-based forest monitoring platform using satellite imagery for forestry health assessment and deforestation detection.
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Oct 2023 — Feb 2024Sought tech employment in South Korea and continued independent learning and machine learning projects after graduation.
• Actively sought professional employment in the South Korean tech industry following university graduation.
• Engaged in self-directed learning and continued development of personal machine learning projects.
Research Assistant
Konkuk University
Jun 2023 — Sep 2023Collected Korean text corpora with web crawlers and supported research publication through editing and data visualizations.
• Developed automated web crawlers using BS4 and Selenium to collect Korean text corpora from diverse online platforms.
• Supported research publication by text formatting, technical editing and creating data visualizations of research data.
Machine Learning Engineer
TengriLab
Feb 2022 — Jan 2023Developed speech-recognition and biometric-authentication models, reporting 10.55% WER and 96% accuracy, and managed six GPU workstations.
• Developed a telephony ASR model using Nvidia NeMo to improve user interaction and data accuracy, achieving a WER of 10.55%, an 8% improvement over the previous model.
• Developed liveness detection and user recognition model, deploying them on Raspberry Pi for real-time biometric authentication, achieving 96% accuracy using a hybrid dataset of open-source and proprietary company data.
• Managed 6 GPU Linux workstations, configuring remote access for AI training.