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I've been living in Seoul, South Korea since December 2024. I was in the San
Francisco Bay Area for 8 years before that.

I was born in Seoul, moved to the States when I was six, and mostly grew up near
Denver, Colorado, where I graduated high school. I played a lot of tennis and
watched a lot of sageuk (Korean historical dramas), back when you had to
download them to your iPod on iTunes :).

I studied electrical engineering at Harvard, then came to UC Berkeley for a
masters in EECS focusing in robotics and embedded systems.

I moved to the Bay Area to work at LG Electronics as a software engineer on
automotive and embedded software. After a couple years, I became a product
manager, where I launched an open autonomous vehicle
[simulator](https://www.svlsimulator.com){:target="_blank"}, started a new
robotics business
[initiative](https://www.webosose.org/about/overview/introduction/){:target="_blank"}
at LG, and led LG\'s involvement as a founding member of the ROS
[Technical Steering Committee](https://docs.ros.org/en/foxy/Governance.html){:target="_blank"}.

After that, I was a product manager at Waymo, working on simulation and
evaluation of self-driving cars for public road deployment. Specifically, I
worked on simulation agents and how to make AI traffic agents act as realistic
as possible so that the self-driving car behavior was validated before being
tested on public roads and human traffic.

Most recently, I founded [Silver Flight Group](https://silverflightgroup.com) to
build tools for content creators looking to reach global audiences.

Since April 2026, I also co-host
[Unlocalized](https://unlocalizedpod.com){:target="_blank"}, a
show and podcast with Jay Lee about the founders and businesses in Korea that
English-language media tends to overlook. We make both long-form episodes and
short-form videos from Seoul, and the show doubles as a testbed for the creator
tools I build: I make the livestream overlays and production tooling, and we
clip the episodes for short-form with Dubcap. Jay interviewed me about my own
path from LG and Waymo to founding a startup in
[episode 12](https://rss.com/podcasts/unlocalized/2933719){:target="_blank"}.

I love to play golf and tennis, and have served as co-president of the Stanford
Korean Graduate Student Tennis Association (open to the community).

### Talks and appearances

- [Unlocalized, episode 12](https://rss.com/podcasts/unlocalized/2933719){:target="_blank"}
  (2026) - Jay interviews me about going from LG and Waymo to founding an AI
  startup.
- [ROSCon 2019](/other/2021/08/21/presentations.html), Macau - "ROS on
  OpenEmbedded: Simpler robotics development for embedded Linux."
- [ROSCon 2018](/other/2021/08/21/presentations.html), Madrid - lightning talk,
  "ROS2 on webOS: Web-app enabled robots."
- AI Robotics KR, Seoul (2019) - "ROS2 on webOS," to about 150 people.
- Silicon Valley Autoware Meetup (2019) - "LGSVL Simulator: Advanced Sensor
  Rendering for Autonomous Vehicle Simulation."
- CES [2018](/blog/2021/08/21/ces-2018.html), [2019](/blog/2021/08/21/ces-2019.html),
  [2020](/blog/2021/08/22/ces-2020.html), and [2021](/blog/2021/08/22/ces-2021.html) -
  exhibiting LG's automotive and simulation work.
- [Publications](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OwOnIKMAAAAJ){:target="_blank"}
  on Google Scholar.