Jong Wook Kim

Jong Wook Kim is a technical expert with extensive experience in software engineering and music technology. Currently serving as a Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI since August 2019, Jong Wook Kim previously held positions as a Research Scientist Intern at Spotify and a Music Information Retrieval Scientist Intern at Pandora, where innovative music recommendation algorithms were developed. During a tenure at Kakao, Jong Wook Kim focused on Apache Spark applications for recommendation systems, while earlier roles at NCSOFT involved designing distributed server platforms for gaming. Jong Wook Kim's educational background includes a Ph.D. in Music Technology from New York University, a Master’s in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.