I am currently working for Amazon Web Services as a Machine Learning Data Linguist. I am also a Collaborative Development Editor at Digital Humanities Quarterly. I received a PhD in English with a GR certificate in the Digital Humanities at Texas A&M University. My PhD dissertation focuses on computational approaches in the humanities with computer vision and natural language processing. I received a MA in English Literary Studies from the University of Exeter and a BA in English Literature (minor in Linguistics) from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.

I first learned how to code when I was 8 years old, and practiced coding by making computer games similar to Galaga. I passed my first computer certification exam when I was 9 years old. I began to learn English and Japanese when I was 12 years old, and I passed the N3 JLPT(Japanese-Language Proficiency Test) when I was 16 years old. I was into computer software and hardware when I was young, and I started to be immersed in literature when I was in high school.

During my PhD, I created the Victorian400 dataset for colorizing black-and-white nineteenth-century illustrations using deep learning and the VictorianLit dataset for machine learning-based sentiment analysis of Victorian literary texts. My articles "Sentiment Analysis: Limits and Progress of the Syuzhet Package and Its Lexicons" and "Victorian400: Colorizing Victorian Illustrations" were published by Digital Humanities Quarterly in June 2022 and International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (IJHAC) in October 2021, respectively. My book chapter “Challenges of Collaboration: Pursing Computational Research in a Humanities Graduate Program” will be included in a series for Debates in the Digital Humanities.

I taught a workshop "Deep Learning for Humanists" at DHSI2022. During my PhD, I taught the digital humanities and literature at Texas A&M University in College Station. In the spring of 2021, I taught ENGL 304: Topics in Digital Research at Texas A&M University and created a course website and online course tutorial for ENGL 304. I have taught ENGL 203 (Writing about Literature), ENGL 210 (Technical Business Writing), and ENGL 104 (Composition & Rhetoric) at Texas A&M University.

I also have other publications, including an academic article, and have participated in digital projects for three years, during which I helped to publish the history of British Kings and Queens and an online literary encyclopedia: Queen Victoria in NAVER History Encyclopedia (NAVER is Korea’s most popular search engine, which also developed the LINE app). I have also worked on commercial mobile apps. Namely, K-Town Rewards in DC and Vinny’s 17 on the App Store and Google Play, and Tulango on Google Play.