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JungJoon KIL

@jungjoonkil

PhD researcher & NLP analyst bridging Social Science and Data Science. Expert in OSINT, AI data (Uber), and K-pop corpus analysis using Python/R.

Taiwan

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role bridging Social Science and NLP, using Python for cross-cultural analysis. As a PhD researcher, I offer expertise in political data, OSINT, and AI data integrity. I also specialize in K-pop industry analysis via large-scale lyric corpus construction. I deliver nuanced, data-driven insights for AI and research.

Professional Achievements

AI Data Strategy: Lead AI data pipelines for Hansem Global (Client: Uber), managing high-fidelity Korean/Japanese image datasets.
NLP Research: Presented government-invited research on semantic similarity and word embedding at the 2023 World Convention of the Korean Language.
Data Analysis: Orchestrated cross-national parliamentary and social science data collection across the USA and Asia as a Research Assistant.
Linguistic Expertise: Professional voice actor and linguist with 9+ years of teaching experience, specializing in high-quality audio curation for Speech AI.

Core Interests

K-pop & Industry Analysis: Built specialized databases and corpora from K-pop lyrics to analyze cultural trends and music metadata (Billboard/KKBOX).
Cross-Linguistic Semantics: Researching how languages encode emotions to improve AI sentiment analysis and mapping cross-linguistic nuances.
Political Intelligence: Utilizing text-mining to track defense policies and election data through parliamentary record extraction.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

AI Data Annotator

Current

Hansem Global, Inc.

Aug 2025 - Present (7 months)

Contributed to Uber's AI data labeling and collection pipelines, leading the MSPO-493 image collection project and ensuring 100% natural, non-synthetic assets while maintaining strict PII and metadata quality controls.

Data Annotation Image Collection Data Quality PII Handling Metadata Management AI Training Data Validation Documentation Process Documentation

Research Assistant & Data Analyst

National Sun Yat-sen University

Sep 2023 - Jul 2025 (1 year 10 months)

Orchestrated cross-national data collection and parliamentary corpus extraction across five regions, ensuring data accuracy and ethical standards while specializing in government and academic natural-language datasets.

NLP Data Collection Corpus Analysis Python Parliamentary Data Cross national Research Data Ethics Metadata Extraction

Master's Researcher

Kyung Hee Cyber University

Jan 2019 - Dec 2021 (2 years 11 months)

Completed an MA thesis analyzing characteristics of Korean pop song lyrics using Python-based crawling and NLP, and developed a music metadata database integrating multiple chart sources for large-scale linguistic analysis.