AI systems leader based in Abu Dhabi

Building AI systems that move from research to real-world use.

I am Seongwoo Choi, a founder and senior AI engineer working across agentic systems, multimodal intelligence, and product delivery.

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Founder & CTO Senior AI Engineer

Selected signals

Work measured by reach, responsibility, and rigor.

150M
users in the product ecosystem served by the Botim chatbot MVP
35
cross-functional team members led across product and engineering
10+
teams supported by deployed internal generative AI software
2025-26
invited NeurIPS workshop reviewer service

Selected work

From technical architecture to shipped outcomes.

My strongest work sits at the boundary between emerging AI research and products that need to operate reliably for real teams and users.

Astra Tech / Botim

AI support at product scale

Led end-to-end MVP delivery for an AI-powered customer support experience, coordinating product, backend, frontend, ML, and design disciplines across a 35-person team.

Role
Technical and cross-functional leadership
Scope
150M-user product ecosystem
Direction
Extensible architecture for future mini-app integrations
LG CNS

Multimodal document intelligence

Designed enterprise document pipelines combining LLMs, retrieval, OCR, and vision-language models to extract text and tables from complex document images.

Systems
DeepSeek OCR, Qwen VL, PaddleOCR-VL
Platform
Python, LangChain, Azure OpenAI
Leverage
Synthetic training data generation and reusable deployment
Independent research

KV-cache compression on edge hardware

Studied whether quantization and token eviction strategies compose when memory-constrained hardware must balance model quality, latency, and cache size.

Focus
Efficient inference and edge deployment
Method
Empirical systems evaluation
Status
Under review at TMLR

Experience

A path through product, research, and infrastructure.

  1. Jan 2026 - Present

    Founder & CTO

    AI startups in stealth · Abu Dhabi / Remote

    Co-founding two early-stage AI companies and leading proprietary multi-agent system architecture, engineering strategy, and product development.

  2. Mar 2026 - Present

    Senior AI Engineer

    Astra Tech · Abu Dhabi

    Leading cross-functional delivery of AI products and building the technical foundation for extensible customer-support experiences.

  3. Sep 2023 - Mar 2026

    AI Research Engineer

    LG CNS, Multi-Modal Intelligence Lab · Seoul

    Built generative AI, retrieval, and multimodal document systems; deployed internal software across more than 10 teams.

  4. Jun 2022 - Oct 2022

    AI Research Engineer & GPU Solutions Architect Intern

    Intel Corporation · Remote

    Researched graph neural networks and evaluated GPU performance for cloud gaming workloads using Intel performance-analysis tooling.

Working capabilities

  • Agentic systems and LLM applications
  • Multimodal document intelligence
  • AI product and engineering leadership
  • GPU and edge inference optimization
  • Python, TypeScript, SQL, LangGraph, PyTorch, FastAPI, Next.js, Docker

Research and open source

Technical depth beyond the product surface.

My research spans efficient inference, electric-vehicle modeling, graph neural networks, computer architecture, and distributed systems.

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Open source · Apache Incubator ecosystem

ResilientDB distributed database research

Contributed to the early ResilientDB research codebase, Linux and cloud builds, and technical documentation for its second-generation architecture.

Publication · arXiv

Predictive modeling of EV battery charge levels

Applied CNN EfficientNet and image-based tabular transformation methods to vehicle charging prediction.

Professional service · 2025-26

NeurIPS workshop reviewer

Invited to review peer work for workshops at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.

Professional membership · 2026

Sigma Xi full member

Inducted into the Scientific Research Honor Society based on peer-recognized original research contributions.

Education

Continuous study across AI, computer science, and leadership.

In progress

University of Pennsylvania

MSE in Artificial Intelligence · GPA 4.0/4.0

Incoming

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Stanford LEAD Certificate Program

Graduate

University of California, Davis

MS in Computer Science

Undergraduate

University of California, Santa Cruz

BS in Computer Science

Contact

Have a difficult AI systems problem?

For technical leadership, research collaboration, and thoughtful conversations about applied AI, email is the simplest way to reach me.

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