(i posted it on social media yesterday and am leaving here as is for the future record. i have a lot of thoughts i want to share about my time founding Prescient Design, joining Genentech/Toche and staying there for more than four years, but i will age them a bit further and share them over a long period …) According to Statistics Korea, the remaining life expectancy of a 41-year-old Korean male is about 41 years. In other words, I’m statistically at the turning point of my life. and, at this point, i’m wrapping up one of my most memorable
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MyChartExplorer: a vibe-coding journey toward accessing my own medical records
if you’ve been following me on twitter (X), linkedin, bluesky, etc., over the past few months, you may have seen me doing some random vibe coding here and there. in particular, over the past three weeks, i’ve been spending a few hours each weekend to check whether vibe-coding is real and if it’s ready for an individual, non-professional engineer to launch a web app online, from scratch without using any existing app development platform. i’m writing this blog post to list out some of the services and tools i’ve used to create a web app, to share with those who
Drug Discovery may be in the Cold War Era
as scientists (yes, i identify as a scientist myself, although i can see how this can be debatable,) we are often trained and encouraged to uncover mechanisms behind mysterious phenomena in the universe. depending on what kinds of these mysterious phenomena we consider, we are classified into different buckets; if you are working on biological phenomena, you’re a biologist. if you are working with languages, you’re a linguist (are linguists scientists? a good question, but i will leave this question for another post in the future.) if you are working with problem solving, i think you’d be considered a computer
Global AI Frontier Lab at New York University
earlier this year, we officially launched the Global AI Frontier Lab at New York University (NYU), directly under the Office of the President. the Global AI Frontier Lab was created at NYU in collaboration with the Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT (specifically with its Institute for Information communication Technology Planning and Evaluation IITP), in order to support research in artificial intelligence (AI) and facilitate international collaboration between a growing body of AI researchers at NYU and those in Korea. together with Yann, i am co-directing this lab. the Global AI Frontier Lab focuses on three research themes; (1) Fundamental
Glen de Vries Professor of Health Statistics
i joined NYU as an assistant professor nearly ten years ago in Fall 2015. during that fall, Glen de Vries, who was the founder and president of Medidata, endowed a professorship in health statistics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU. this was celebrated in an event in the faculty lounge on the 13th floor of the Warren Weaver Hall. because i had a weekly lab session for my very first course at NYU almost at the same time, i sadly could not attend it myself, but it was how i learned of Glen de Vries, Medidata and their