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KIM HYEONGSEOB

AI Research & Development

I research, build, and ship AI.
From model design to production pipelines.

About Me

Hyeong-seob (Harrison) Kim

I design AI systems and research the latest techniques

After studying Architectural Engineering, I spent ten years on construction sites coordinating multi-stakeholder teams and managing large-scale projects. That experience translates directly into my work as an AI Research Engineer — drawing service boundaries in MSA architectures and making the architectural calls that complex pipelines demand.

I currently lead the Engineering Part within the BrainCrew Research Engineering team. At my previous company, I designed and built five AI systems solo over nine months, including an Advanced RAG Pipeline, an Admin Console, and a B2B SaaS Platform.

I also lead a developer crew called WIGTN, where we have open-sourced an AI-native development toolkit (WIGTN-Coding) and a VLM-based Korean public-document parser (WigtnOCR). Our real-time bidirectional speech-translation system WIGVO, which runs over the legacy PSTN audio band (G.711 μ-law, 8 kHz) and removes the echo loop in software alone via a novel Dual-Session Echo Gating architecture, was accepted to ACL 2026 System Demonstrations.

Experience

Professional history

Apr 2026 – Present

BrainCrew Inc. (브레인크루)

Research Engineering Team / Engineering Part Lead

  • Lead the Engineering Part within the Research Engineering team, designing and building production AI systems end-to-end.
Jan 2026 – Present

WIGTN

Founder & Lead

[AI R&D]
  1. WIGVO: Real-time bidirectional speech translation over the legacy PSTN call band (ACL 2026 Accepted, first author) Details
    • Designed and built the Dual-Session Echo Gating architecture and a 3-stage audio filter pipeline (Echo Gate → Energy Gate → Silero VAD) from scratch.
    • Title: Real-Time Bidirectional Speech Translation over Legacy PSTN Calls via Dual-Session Echo Gating
  2. WigtnOCR: A VLM-based parser specialized for Korean public documents Details
    • Through Qwen3-VL-2B LoRA fine-tuning, surpassed the 30B Teacher model that is 15× larger.
    • Across four models (Qwen3-VL-30B, 2B, Marker, WigtnOCR) on OmniDocBench (CVPR 2025), ranked #1 on Table TEDS (0.649).
    • Achieved top Hit@1 and MRR@10 in a six-parser retrieval comparison on KoGovDoc.
[Hackathon]
  1. 🥈 Snowflake AI & Data Hackathon 2026 Korea — Tech Track, 2nd Place (Team WIGTN) Demo News
    • WIGTN FLAKE — a goal-driven neighborhood-intelligence platform built on a Snowflake Cortex × GPT-4o hybrid orchestration.
[Open Source]
  1. WIGTN-Coding: An AI-native development workflow plugin built on Claude Code (7 commands, 14 agents, 7 skills).
  2. LLM Loadtester: An LLM-serving benchmarking tool aimed at non-engineers (TTFT / TPOT / Goodput visualizations).
  3. TimeLens: A multimodal voice + camera AI museum curator (Gemini Live Agent Challenge).
Jul 2025 – Mar 2026

SoundMind Inc. (사운드마인드)

AX Business Division / AI Research Engineer

[AI Product Engineering & R&D]
SoundMind AI Ecosystem Details
  • Solo-designed and end-to-end-built a platform (AI Console + AI Platform) that auto-generates and deploys customer-document-driven RAG pipelines.
  • Two LLMs cross-analyze the customer's documents to recommend the optimal RAG strategy, then ship it via one-click Docker deployment — cutting new-engine deployment lead time from 2 weeks to 5 minutes.
  • R&D for public-sector RAG: built a RAGAS-based LLM-as-a-Judge evaluation system (81 Q&A pairs · 3,678 pages) and quantified each pipeline stage's contribution by ablating one component at a time.
  • Operated 9 MSA projects · 161 APIs · 15+ Docker containers · up to 99 concurrent pipelines, monitored with Grafana + Loki.
Jan 2022 – Sep 2024

Hyundai Engineering & Construction (현대건설)

Housing Business Division / Architectural Site Engineer

  • Pre-reviewed architectural and structural change drawings to eliminate design-interference and risk before construction.
  • Led the on-site validation of the corporate R&D group's new inter-floor sound-insulation technology, "H-Silence," and contributed to obtaining Korea's first Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Grade-1 certification.
  • Reviewed workability of finishes and per-trade construction sequencing; resolved on-site quality issues.
  • Drove cross-discipline (structural × architectural) coordination to secure technical reviews and construction quality.
  • Ran on-site QC activities and managed construction planning and scheduling.
Jul 2016 – Jan 2022

Donggeuk Construction (동극건업)

Head Office / Construction Project Manager

  • Owned project contracting, cost and financial management (P&L), and overall construction management.
  • Supported new-business wins by reviewing bids and estimates for new projects.
  • Operated the contract, cost, and settlement processes for reinforced-concrete structural work.
  • Owned head-office ↔ site administrative and technical communications; participated in negotiations with labor unions.
  • As a subcontractor lead, negotiated schedule, contracts, and costs with the contractor and partner subcontractors.
  • Key projects supported: Doosan Group's Bundang HQ, CESCO Members City, Yonsei University Y-IBS new-build, MBC Sangam Parking Building, etc.
Aug 2014 – Jul 2016

Doosan Engineering & Construction (두산건설)

Building Construction Division / Architectural Site Engineer

  • Managed construction sequencing and supported resource and schedule coordination.
  • Performed QC against design drawings and documented construction process records.
  • Contributed to winning the Excellence Award at the 2015 LH Construction Value-Engineering Competition.

Research & Community

Research and community activities

Jan 2026 – Present

Modulabs — NVIDIA RAPIDS Lab

GPU-Accelerated Laboratory / Research Member

  • Researching and developing an open-source, end-to-end, fully-GPU AutoML system on top of NVIDIA RAPIDS.
  • Stack: NVTabular (data engineering), Ray (GPU management), and the GPU builds of XGBoost / LightGBM / CatBoost.
  • Benchmarking against existing AutoML systems (AutoGluon, LightAutoML) on OpenML datasets.

Education

Academic background

Jun 2023 – Feb 2024

National Institute for Lifelong Education (NILE)

Bachelor's Degree, Architectural Engineering

Mar 2009 – Aug 2015

Kyungbok University (경복대학교)

Associate's Degree, Architectural Design

Training & Certifications

Training programs and certificates

Awards

Honors and recognitions

Apr 2026

🥈 Snowflake AI & Data Hackathon 2026 Korea — Tech Track, 2nd Place

Team WIGTN — WIGTN FLAKE: a goal-driven neighborhood-intelligence platform

The user picks "what they want to do" — open a café, market rental appliances, place an outdoor ad, invest in real estate — and an AI panel of domain experts cross-analyzes four datasets (real-estate prices, foot traffic, card sales, telecom contracts) to recommend the top three neighborhoods, automatically detect anomaly signals, and forecast a six-month trend. Built on a Snowflake Cortex × GPT-4o hybrid orchestration.

Demo  ·  News

Dec 2022

Hyundai E&C — 2022 Excellence Award, Technical Competitiveness

Led the on-site validation of the "H-Silent" inter-floor sound-insulation system; contributed to obtaining Korea's MOLIT Grade-1 certification.

Apr 2015

Architectural Institute of Korea — 11th Outstanding Graduation Thesis Exhibition, Encouragement Prize

"A Study on Improving Organizational Engagement on Construction Sites through the Introduction of Mentoring."

Licenses

National qualifications

Dec 19, 2025

Engineer Big Data Analysis (빅데이터분석기사)

Korea Data Agency (K-DATA, 한국데이터산업진흥원)

Professional Projects

Company & Side Projects

SoundMind AI Ecosystem

[AI Sales Enablement Platform] SoundMind AI Ecosystem

An AI Sales Enablement Platform that analyzes customer documents to auto-generate and ship a tailored RAG pipeline via Docker. Cut new-engine deployment lead time from 2 weeks to 5 minutes; ran 9 MSA projects · 161 APIs · up to 99 concurrent pipelines.

LangGraph Advanced RAG vLLM MSA
WigtnOCR — VLM Document Parsing

[EMNLP 2026 In Prep] WigtnOCR — A VLM-based parser for Korean public documents

LoRA-fine-tuned Qwen3-VL-2B for Korean public-document parsing, surpassing Qwen3-VL-30B on OmniDocBench. Top-tier Hit@1 / MRR@10 in retrieval among open-source parsers. Released as an open-source HuggingFace model.

Qwen3-VL-2B LoRA OmniDocBench Open Source
WIGVO — Real-Time Speech Translation

[ACL 2026 Accepted] WIGVO — Real-time bidirectional speech translation that removes the PSTN echo loop in software

An architecture that breaks the echo loop in low-bandwidth PSTN telephony. Validated 0/148 failures in field testing; accepted as ACL 2026 System Demonstrations (first author).

OpenAI Realtime Twilio Silero VAD Cloud Run
Engineering LLM Loadtester Dashboard

[Open Source] Engineering LLM Loadtester

An LLM-serving benchmarking tool usable by non-engineers. Visualizes TTFT / TPOT / Goodput and runs a dual cross-validation. Received cold outreach from an ex-Google ML/AI engineer.

Claude Code FastAPI Open Source
WIGTN Claude Code Skills Plugins

[Open Source] WIGTN Claude Code Skills Plugins

An AI-native development workflow plugin built on Claude Code. 7 commands · 14 agents · 7 skills · 4 hooks. Quality-gate auto code review and a 3-tier memory system push pipeline throughput up by 3×.

Claude Code Skills Plugin Open Source
WIGTN FLAKE — Snowflake Hackathon 2nd Place

[Snowflake Hackathon 2026 — Tech Track 🥈 2nd Place] WIGTN FLAKE — A goal-driven neighborhood-intelligence platform

When the user picks "what they want to do" (open a café, market rental appliances, place an ad board, invest in real estate, etc.), an AI panel of domain experts cross-analyzes four datasets (real-estate prices, foot traffic, card sales, telecom contracts) to recommend top-3 neighborhoods, surface anomaly signals automatically, and forecast a six-month trend. Built on a Snowflake Cortex × GPT-4o hybrid orchestration by a four-person Team WIGTN.

Snowflake Cortex GPT-4o Next.js Hybrid Orchestration
TimeLens — AI Museum Curator

[Gemini Live Agent Challenge] TimeLens — A multimodal voice + camera AI museum curator

An entry for Google's global Gemini Live Agent Challenge. Uses a dual pipeline of Gemini Live API + ADK to process voice and camera in real time. Four function calls replace the routing logic, intent classifier, and state machine.

Gemini Live API Google ADK Cloud Run Next.js

Toy Projects

Learning & Side Projects

VALORITHM Project

[MCP-based AI Tooling] Boosting FPS-game developer productivity with an MCP server and AI agent

Three AI tools for FPS game development unified under the MCP standard. Generates weapon-recoil trajectories from natural language (98.7% time saved) and 3D map whiteboxing (75% time saved). Deployed on Smithery.ai.

MCP Numpy OpenCV RAG
KOMI Project

[RAG & Computer Vision] Real-time exercise-form feedback by combining YOLO and a RAG system

A real-time exercise-form feedback service that combines YOLO11-Pose joint extraction with a LangChain RAG system. Achieved 100% Context Precision / Recall and 82% Answer Relevancy on RAGAS evaluation.

RAG LangChain YOLO-Pose RAGAS
BeMyMuse Project

[Language Model Fine-Tuning] Fine-tuning KoGPT-2 into an emotion-driven lyric writer

Full fine-tuning of KoGPT-2 on 7,439 song lyrics for an emotion-driven Korean lyric model. Analyzes the sentiment of input keywords across 43 KOTE emotion categories and generates tailored lyrics.

Hugging Face Fine-Tuning Evaluation
PerfectPose Project

[Computer Vision + WebSocket + Unreal] PerfectPose — An AI-powered pose-matching game

In a 24-hour hackathon, built an end-to-end pose-matching game combining real-time YOLO11-Pose recognition with Unreal Engine 5. Scores cosine similarity against reference poses; 30 fps real-time processing and sub-50 ms API response.

YOLO-Pose OpenCV Segmentation WebSocket
EconDigest Project

[AI / LLM] EconDigest — Automatic summaries for finance YouTube videos

An end-to-end pipeline that auto-summarizes finance videos from a YouTube URL. Whisper-large-v3 for STT, then Gemma-2 with QLoRA 4-bit quantization to generate the summary on a single GPU.

Whisper Gemma-2 QLoRA FastAPI

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