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Joon Hee Choi

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Director at Samsung Semiconductor US
📍 San Jose, California, United States

Joon Hee Choi is an AI/ML engineering leader and Director at Samsung Semiconductor US. With a Ph. D. from Purdue University, he spearheads the AI Innovation Team, developing advanced Agentic AI and RAG pipelines for enterprise knowledge systems, specializing in computer vision and NLP.

[Predicted] Based on his current role in San Jose and his time at Purdue University, his personal interests may include following Bay Area professional sports teams or his alma mater, the Purdue Boilermakers.

He co-authored a paper on “COPAL, ” a novel algorithm for continually pruning large language models without resource-heavy retraining, which was accepted to the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).

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Experience
10 Years
Current Role
Director
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Jose, California, United States
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Enterprise AI Systems
Leads initiatives at Samsung to build internal AI chatbot platforms and RAG-based retrieval systems to enhance employee productivity and knowledge access.
Continual Model Pruning
Co-authored the paper "COPAL, " a novel algorithm for pruning large language generative models in a continual adaptation setting, which was accepted to ICML 2024.
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Career

Work history

8-2022
Director
Samsung Semiconductor US
9-2019 - 7-2022
Assistant Professor
Sungkyunkwan University
6-2018 - 8-2019
Staff Engineer
Qualcomm
1-2013 - 5-2018
Graduate Research Assistant
Purdue University
1-2016 - 5-2016
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Purdue University
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Education
2013 - 2018
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Purdue University
2012 - 2014
Master's Degree
Purdue University
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