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Kevin Chon

Development
WA, United States
Skills
Deep Learning
Machine Learning (ML)
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Kinesis (AWS)
Redshift (AWS)
PyTorch
TensorFlow (Google)
GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
Statical Data Analysis
Data Engineering
Image Captioning
Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Amazon SQS
Amazon API Gateway
Blockchain
C++
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
iOS
Swift
Node.js
React.js
Java
About
KEVIN H. CHON's skills align with Programmers (Information and Communication Technology). KEVIN also has skills associated with IT R&D Professionals (Information and Communication Technology). KEVIN H. CHON has 6 years of work experience, with 2 years of management experience, including a high-level position.
Acomplishments
Engineering Clients: Huupe, Collision Sciences, Musi (Top 50 Global iOS App), other independent entities • Musi: Designed and implemented the first production event handling data analytics pipeline and machine learning infrastructure supported on AWS, dealing with a minimum of more than 2.7 million monthly active users. Defined custom event handlers utilizing Redis for queue management, connections, spanning workers in a Python Flask environment in conjunction with AWS Kinesis & AWS Redshift for cloud data management • Real Shot (AR basketball app): Led team as Head of Machine Learning to develop a real-time object detection and classification model from custom collected basketball shooting videos data for Nreal AR glasses and Unity built game app • Collision Sciences: Implementing ML prediction system based on car sensor data, iOS app feature development • Learning is Fun (NLP App): Researched and developed a system taking in custom sets of educational articles and generating automated MC questions and answers for an iOS educational prototype app
Worked as a machine learning engineer in the Algorithm team in OPPO US R&D Seattle office. • Conducted computer vision research in 3D depth estimation and object detection • Contributed to AR translate app, particularly focusing on Korean translation use case. • Conducted time series research in real time audio signals processing for audio super resolution • Filed two patents, one related to intelligent content rendering using semantic analysis models and another related on generative pseudo lidar object detection on mobile Patent - Content rendering using semantic analysis models : https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2022250690A1 Patent - Methods and systems for generating point clouds: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2022099225A1
Work Experience

Senior Machine Learning Research Engineer

Luna Solutions
January 2023 - Present
  • • Developed and improved upon virtual try on (VTO) algorithms to generate and fit 3D glasses upon 3D reconstructed human faces generated from a series of 2D face images, for both card and iris scaling approaches
  • • Researched and deployed new vertices on 3D human face mesh for increased accuracy of face width and pupillary distance (PD) measurements
  • • Refactored core internal AR facial reconstruction library based on PCA based 3D morphable head (3dmm)

Senior Software Engineer - Algorithm Team

OPPO US RESEARCH CENTER
December 2020 - April 2022
  • - Graphics: Developed and patented a generic content rendering method based off OpenGL frame metadata and integrated feature into a real time graphics processing library for Android games played on OPPO smartphones
  • - Computer Vision: Developed and patented a multimodal 2d-3d reconstruction pseudo-lidar object detection and classification method optimized for autonomous driving
  • - Time Series Processing (Audio): Developed prototype to perform real time embedded audio superresolution (2x/4x)

Research Software Engineer

VIRTUAL TRAFFIC LIGHTS
September 2018 - November 2019
  • Worked on technologies regarding V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) communications solutions to optimize traffic flows at intersections including leader selection, vehicle localization, and core logic processing Implemented a distributed wireless communication system involving DSRC radio and localization data generated from Open Street Maps and other sensors placed on the on-board unit (OBU). Researched and worked with different computer vision techniques to incorporate for multi-camera multi object segmentation, image stitching, sensor fusion, LiDAR replacement, and overall perception module Demonstrated in person prototypes in conjunction with KACST in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (stakeholders), after many SUMO / CARLA simulations and physical field trials of V2V communication platform in real - time

Software Engineer Intern

SALESFORCE
May 2017 - August 2017
  • Developed a data synthesis ML application creating data to be aggregated, preprocessed, and inputted into production predictive scoring models. Worked on supervised learning models with feature engineering Upheld dependencies amongst related features across multiple different tables. Inferred then applied probability feature distributions to generate realistic, configurable data for ML model evaluation (i.e. ROC) & stress testing Utilized Scala and Spark to create data, Azkaban to schedule DAG workflows, Hadoop to run/manage clusters

Software Engineer Intern (Electronic Trading Analytics & Reporting)

CHICAGO TRADING COMPANY
June 2016 - August 2016
  • Developed a multi-threaded tick data analysis application in C++ to accurately capture and process several gigabytes of live quote/trade data from multiple financial exchanges on a daily basis Researched and implemented parameter-focused statistical safeties to identify and predict bad quotes/trades Leveraged Python libraries NumPy, Pandas, and Bokeh for the tick data analysis and visualization

Chief Technology Officer & Co-founder

AUDOJAM
April 2016 - January 2018
  • Published a social media music app capturing user's listened music, facilitating easy music messaging with friends, and providing a real-time music feed of friends' recently listened music from multiple music API sources (Spotify/Pandora/iOS) Full stack development from writing custom views to handling simultaneous asynchronous calls, implementing reusable cache, server-side migration and push notifications, and leveraging AWS infrastructure services Hired and managed a team of software developers, from basic wireframes to beta testing to live status on App Store

Application Developer Intern (Summer Technology Analyst)

J.P. MORGAN CHASE
June 2015 - August 2015
  • Developed internal Java web application formulating data analytics based on results of automated test scripts Generated time series data queried from relational database and visualized such data with JavaScript charting libraries
Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science
MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

Bachelor of Science
BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering