Sunghee Yun

Co-founder & CTO @ Erudio Bio, Inc., KFAS-Salzburg Global Leadership Initiative Fellow @ Salzburg Global Seminar, Adjunct Professor @ Sogang University, Advisory Professor @ DGIST

I am Co-founder & CTO @ Erudio Bio, Inc., CA, USA, Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) @ WeStory.ai, CA, USA, Advisor & Evangelist @ CryptoLab, Inc., KFAS-Salzburg Global Leadership Initiative Fellow @ Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, an Adjunct Professor of Department of Electronic Engineering @ Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, an Advisory Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) @ Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), South Korea, Global Advisory Board Member @ Innovative Future Brain-Inspired Intelligence System Semiconductor of Sogang University, and Network Expert Consultant @ Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.

Before founding the new AI biotech company, I co-founded Gauss Labs, Inc., an industrial AI company, built and ran the US Headquarters of Gauss Labs, spearheaded research & development of the core technology & products as CTO, Global Head of Research, Chief Applied Scientist & Senior Fellow. Before Gauss Labs, I drove various AI technology and product developments and productionizations in the field of e-Commerce @ Amazon.com, Inc. where one of the projects created a 200 USD revenue increase via the Amazon Mobile Shopping App. Before Amazon, I worked for Software Research Center, Strategic Sales & Marketing Team, Design Technology Team & Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) Team of Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. where I developed diverse AI and optimization tools for semiconductor chip designers, manufacturing engineers & test engineers where more than 200 engineers still use the circuit optimization tools and generic AI optimization platform, dubbed iOpt, every day.

I received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea and MS & Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, CA, USA under supervision of Prof. Stephen P. Boyd, who is a legendary figure in the field. — Having him as my advisor was one of the luckiest things that have ever happened to my life!

I specialize in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Convex Optimization leading cutting-edge projects across diverse sectors including semiconductor design, strategic marketing with market intelligence, e-commerce, industrial AI, and biotech while driving business development, connecting people, and consulting people in diverse industries. My focus is on leveraging the AI technology especially around AI agents which essentially based on the recent breakthroughs of large language models (LLM) and multimodal generative AI (GenAI) to drive business innovation, predict industry trends, assess their broad impacts on society, economy, and policy, provide policy and technology recommendations by understanding and having differentiated insight into technology, industry, business, and markets.

As a KFAS-Salzburg Global Leadership Initiative Fellow, I develop actionable solutions for the challenges posed by a rapidly changing world by AI. My work focuses on “Technology, Growth, and Inequality: The Case of AI,” within the broader theme of “Uncertain Futures and Connections Reimagined: Connecting Technologies.” I also actively contribute to AI and semiconductor technology policy making, advising state and national governments while considering the geopolitical dynamics of key players like the US, China, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.

I also dedicate to fostering knowledge, insight, and experience transfer and innovation by serving as an Adjunct Professor of Department of Electronic Engineering @ Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea, an Advisory Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) @ Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), South Korea, and Global Advisory Board Member @ Innovative Future Brain-Inspired Intelligence System Semiconductor of Sogang University.

My life goal is to help build a future where humanity thrives through the advancement of health, safety, liberty, and equality—foundational elements that pave the way to genuine happiness.

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When joining Amazon in 2017

When joining Gauss Labs, Inc. in 2020