Ilho Park

CFO at Wider Planet

Ilho Park is the current CFO at Wider Planet. Prior to this, they were the Project Organizer and Data Science Team Leader at CJ CheilJedang BIO from October 2018 to January 2021. There, they were responsible for data infrastructure, machine learning, and information technology.

During their time at CJ CheilJedang BIO, Park built an end-to-end solution for classification of intellectual property text using GCP, BigQuery and Spark. Ilho also designed and implemented a Random Forest classifier to identify specific markers of infection by an under-studied pathogen in commercial agricultural sites. In addition, they developed a fuzzy string matching algorithm using NLTK to extract replicated sequences in a primer order database and extract user, target and project trends for executive review.

In terms of software development and IT infrastructure management, Park integrated legacy and newly requisitioned server resources into a fully scalable HPC using Kubernetes, Docker, Spark, and Slurm. Ilho also created an automated monthly scheduling system in Python to evenly allocate resources based on variable constraints including personnel availability. Furthermore, they wrote several packages in Python, BASH and Docker to standardize and automate processing and visualization of sequencing data.

Lastly, Park has experience in mentorship and teaching. Ilho wrote a series of tutorials to introduce Linux computing, virtual machines and environments, and basic script and data analytics using Python and R to researchers without a computational background. Ilho has also completed preliminary training seminar to become a Software Carpentry Instructor.

Ilho Park received a PhD in Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics from the University of Michigan. Ilho also has a Master of Science in the same field from the University of Michigan, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Kalamazoo College.

Ilho Park works with Taeyong Kim - CSO, Kyong-chang Woo - Big Data Center Lead, and Sudong Chung - CTO & Co-Founder. Ilho Park reports to Edward Kyosik Koo, CEO & Co-Founder.

Timeline

  • CFO

    Current role