Summary
Sang-hoon R is a multi-decade seasoned researcher and engineer with a rare blend of embedded systems expertise, hardware intuition, and AI-focused research. He is currently Senior Researcher, Artificial Intelligence at AI Research Institute, a role he has held since 2016, bridging advanced research with deployable software. His portfolio spans 8-bit firmware, RTOS, Linux kernel and device drivers, network protocols, multimedia codecs, and mobile app/web development, with a track record of end-to-end system building. He combines deep hardware knowledge—component-level design and hardware manuals—with a broad software toolkit including C/C++, Python, Java, JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS, and shell scripting. Across his career he has led and contributed at Websync, Media-I, Appex Corp, and as a freelancer, delivering scalable devices, mobile services, and AI/ML solutions. Based in Seoul, South Korea, he brings a pragmatic, production-oriented mindset to research that accelerates real-world AI and embedded systems.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
English, Korean