Applied scientist | AWS, GenAI Innovation Center APJ
E-mail: jackyoung96.snu@gmail.com
Phone: +82) 10-4805-5036
Webpage: https://jackyoung96.github.io
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaekyung-cho-7361b521a
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Work Experience Summary
- 4+ years of experience designing, training, and optimizing up to 519B scale large language models using distributed training techniques, contributing to a Top-3 ranking in the Korean World Best LLM project.
- 4+ years of experience partnering with cross-functional teams and clients to deliver AI solutions—including LLM fine-tuning, dataset synthesis, and evaluation system development—for projects valued at over $4 million.
- 4+ years of research experience in autonomous robotics and reinforcement learning, delivering 8 peer-reviewed publications and 2 patents through innovative solutions to real-world challenges.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Applied Scientist | Amazon Web Service | 2025-Present
Generative AI Researcher
Technical Presenter
- ICML tutorial workshop (2026): Presented about Physical AI data pipeline in the topic “From Digital Agents to Physical Intelligence: The Agentic Harness as a Unifying Architectural Pattern”
- ICML Amazon Booth Demo (2026): Presented about robotic data diversification in the topic “Physical AI on AWS: Enabling robots to see, plan, and act in the real world”
AI Engineer | SKTelecom | 2023-2025
Generative AI Engineer
- Open-source Release: Main contributor to the development and release of SKT’s LLMs A.X-3.1, A.X-4.0, and A.X-K1 on Hugging Face, contributing to a Top-3 ranking in the Korean World Best LLM project
- Large-Scale Distributed Training: Implemented multi-node training for 70B-scale Dense LLMs using FSDP, and 519B-scale MoE LLMs using Megatron-LM
- Model Performance Improvements: Implemented Knowledge Distillation, improving general performance of 7B-scale LLM by 20%
- Training Optimization: Developed "Preference Packing" technique for DPO that reduced training time and memory usage by 35% - arxiv.2602.24082v1
- Training Workflow Management: Designed a post-training workflow to resolve issues in use cases and improve collaboration with the data generation team