- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering — Northeastern University, Boston (2024 – present, GPA 3.96/4.0)
- B.S. Mechanical Engineering (CS Minor) — Kyungpook National University (Summa Cum Laude, 1st / 152)
Physics Simulation · GPU-Accelerated Simulation · Reinforcement Learning · Deep Learning · Differentiable Simulation
- MuseHub Track, Music Technology Hackathon, Berklee · 1st Place
- HackPrinceton Spring 2026 · Knot API track, 1st Place ($500)
- Precision Neuroscience BCI Hackathon · 1st Place ($1,000)
- Remy Hackathon 2026 · 2nd Place ($1,000)
- LikeLion US 2025 Ideathon · Winner (Top 3)
- R-BIZ Challenge · Presidential Award, ₩3,000,000 (2019)
- National Scholarship for Science and Engineering · Full Tuition
| Project | Competition | Description |
|---|---|---|
| UNREALTIME | MuseHub Track, Music Technology Hackathon, Berklee — 1st Place | Live AI music workflow that turns rough prompts and messy loops into playable instruments with Magenta RealTime 2. (Live) |
| Flanner | HackPrinceton Spring 2026 — 1st Place ($500) | Turns six months of DoorDash / Uber Eats orders into a weekly home-cooked meal plan, then auto-fills your Amazon Fresh cart. (Live) |
| BCI Neural Visualization System | Precision Neuroscience BCI Hackathon — 1st Place ($1,000) | Real-time guidance for surgeons placing 1024-channel ECoG arrays. |
| Trippo | Remy Hackathon 2026 — 2nd Place ($1,000) | Group travel chat that becomes a film when the trip ends: chat is the planner, photos cluster by EXIF + GPS, one-tap recap reel. (Live) |
| CoHabitAI | LikeLion US 2025 Ideathon — Winner | Whose turn was it to clean? Who still owes rent? CoHabitAI is an AI manager that coordinates the friction points of shared living, fairly. (Live) |
| Booky | YHack 2026 — Finalist | Social reading platform with story-branching choices and an AI-generated solar system. |
| MotZip | Next-Gen Hacks Beta · Spring 2026 — Submitted | Restaurants by voice. Speak what you want, watch a 3D map filter to candidates, then have an AI agent call every restaurant in parallel. (Live) |
| D4D Anti-Drone | D4D Hackathon · Korea | A counter-drone command operating picture on Palantir Foundry: live drone tracks in the Ontology, an AIP agent that ranks threats and briefs targets, and a decision-provenance graph, with a human in the loop before any engagement. (Live) |
| TEKKAL | — | Local-first slide platform where every drag-and-drop maps to structured code. (Live) |
| AsyncPair | IBM Bob Hackathon — Submitted | Async pair programming across time zones: capture context at every git commit, hand it off, and let an AI stand in for your teammate while they sleep. (Live) |
| Zerve × ODSC AI Datathon | Zerve × ODSC AI Datathon | Production-style MLOps pipeline for subscription upgrade prediction: 32 blocks, 5-model ensemble, weekly drift detection, all built inside the Zerve canvas. (Live) |
| SegRec | Video Understanding AI Hackathon | YouTube recommends whole videos; SegRec recommends specific segments: click a chapter in one video and discover similar moments across your entire library. |
| EchoBoard | Dream AI Hackathon | A virtual camera that listens to your video call and turns the background behind you into an ad that matches what you're talking about. (Live) |
Gachisoft Inc. — Software Research Engineer (2021 – 2024)
- Logistics Digital Twin System deployed at two Korea Post sites
- 3D vision system for Coupang; PLC integration for real-time control (C++, OpenCV)
- Email: son.hyo@northeastern.edu · me@hyoungseo.com
- GitHub: @son-engr-kr
- Portfolio: hyoungseo.com