about

Hey I'm Seong Hyun. I'm a Data Scientist, Statistician, and Machine Learning Scientist. Most recently I worked at Plated, a meal kit delivery service startup based in New York acquired by Albertsons. Previously I was at HonestFund, an online marketplace lending startup based in Seoul, Korea, and at CogoLabs, an ad tech and programmatic marketing startup accelerator in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I earned my master's degree in Statistics from Yale, and I studied Statistics and Economics at Harvard where I received my bachelor's degree. I completed a thesis advised by Professor Joseph Blitzstein in which I proposed and evaluated a novel algorithm SlopeUnion to recommend products in online social ratings network.

I enjoy developing innovative solutions for complex problems while balancing the needs for getting to quick wins with data. I'm interested in building data-driven products, learning new technologies, spreading best data science practices and workflows and mentoring data scientists, engineers, and analysts.

background

  • Probabilistic Modeling, Probabilistic Machine Learning, and Bayesian Inference
  • Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing
  • Recommender Systems
  • Swarm Intelligence and Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms

Philosophically, I'm a Bayesian in principle, a likelihoodist in practice, and a frequentist in public. I like traveling so I've backpacked through Europe, visited Korea, Japan, China, Costa Rica, and parts of the United States. I also love sushi, especially raw salmon, and like taking random photos of nature and daily life. I don't like cilantro though.

I launched my blog in early 2015 with the site domain thedatalogical, later merged with my Github account stathwang in 2016 under .io extension. The old site is deprecated and no longer maintained. I try to keep my blog updated occasionally with posts about interesting data science projects and visualizations I've done as well as share my thoughts on world and human behavior. I also wish to do some work on my discontinued music producing. All opinions are my own.

contact

I'm highly interested in startup opportunities as well as data science and machine learning research collaborations, so let's chat if you have any ideas or questions. The preferred way to contact me is via email at krshh1412 [at] gmail [dot] com. Feel free to subscribe below to receive emails on my new blog posts.