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Her strengths include human-in-the-loop evaluation, prompt optimization, multimodal benchmark design, failure-mode testing, edge-case identification, guardrail design, and cross-functional collaboration with subject-matter experts, legal teams, Product, UX, Engineering, clients, and MLOps partners. At Relativity, JeongYoon has integrated SME feedback into model rubrics and system prompts, evaluated models across releases using task-specific methods and system-level metrics, and assessed non-deterministic behavior with agreement-based measures including agreement rate and Krippendorff’s alpha. Previously, she developed a generative-AI onboarding product that reached general availability and reduced customer time-to-first use by approximately 10x. Her work also includes multimodal LLM systems, production-like simulation environments, education-focused RAG applications, neural-network research on multi-region brain signals, supply-chain analytics, and software testing. JeongYoon holds a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University and has academic backgrounds in computer science, applied mathematics and statistics, industrial engineering, economics, and management. ## Highlights - Serves as a Senior Applied Scientist at Relativity, focused on responsible AI, human-centered evaluation, LLM alignment, and reliable generative-AI experiences. - Integrated human-in-the-loop evaluation with SMEs at Relativity, refining model rubrics and system prompts through targeted feedback and recent research insights. - Translated evaluation findings into optimized model configurations for Product and Engineering teams, including consideration of region-specific model availability across global Azure cloud regions. - Evaluated model consistency across iterations using agreement rate and Krippendorff’s alpha to address non-deterministic behavior and support robust model comparison. - Drove AI-model evaluation across releases using task-specific methods and system-level metrics, including error rates and token consumption. - Developed a generative-AI onboarding product for LLM-powered workflows at Relativity that reached general availability and reduced customer time-to-first use by approximately 10x. - Built production-like simulation environments for systematic model testing and validation before deployment. - Delivered MVPs for multimodal AI initiatives, including benchmark frameworks for image and multimodal document inputs such as PDFs. - Incorporated client requirements from U.S., U.K., and EMEA regions into multimodal model design and evaluation, including image-quality criteria. - Built a multimodal LLM system and production-like testing environment during a Relativity internship, integrating text and image modalities for e-discovery use cases. - Collaborated with MLOps on version-controlled Prefect workflows running on containerized infrastructure for production-like model-evaluation environments. - Created a GPT vision-model pipeline using Databricks, Spark, and Azure Data Lake Storage, and analyzed its costs against traditional text-based AI models. - Built an interactive AI framework for U.S. public-school education leaders using the Genmini model, LangChain, and multimodal RAG deployed it on Vertex AI in Google Cloud Platform. - Worked with stakeholders to fine-tune an education AI model for compliance with instructional best practices. - Analyzed Samsung Home Appliance logistics order progress against forecast order targets at Samsung Electronics America. - Optimized washing-machine container allocation based on Best Buy order quantities and reviewed unshipped orders against purchase orders. - Created a Python automation program for direct-shipment management that reduced manual data-preprocessing work. - Conducted undergraduate research at Stony Brook University on transfer learning and an image-text-matching survey paper. - Developed explainable ML and DL models for interpreting multi-region neural interconnectivity at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. - Used GRU, LSTM, and RNN models to analyze brain-circuit dynamics and time-series forecasting to enhance neural-connectivity interpretability. - Served as a Teaching Assistant for Northwestern University’s MSAI Data Science Seminar in Fall 2024. - Contributed to AK Analyst software development and alpha testing at Akai Kaeru, identifying and documenting multiple software bugs. - Conducted feature-engineering research using Spotify API data to analyze music preferences and connect people. - Designs LLM-product guardrails and safety thresholds, with experience in testing failure modes and identifying edge cases. - Works across benchmark development from task definition through evaluation and collaborates with SMEs, legal teams, Product, UX, Engineering, MLOps, and clients. - Holds a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University, bachelor’s degrees from Stony Brook University and Ajou University, and International Summer School study in Economics & Management at Universität Bayreuth. - Lists GHC ’24 and AI at Northwestern in her professional headline. ## Experience - **Senior Applied Scientist at Relativity** (2026-04-01–present) — Integrated human-in-the-loop evaluation in collaboration with SMEs, incorporating targeted feedback and insights from recent research to iteratively refine model rubrics and system prompts, improving alignment between model outputs and human judgment • Translated evaluation insights into product improvements, delivering optimized model configurations to product and engineering teams, incorporating region-specific model availability across global cloud environments \(e.g., Azure regions\) • Assessed model consistency across iterative evaluations, using agreement-based metrics \(e.g., agreement rate, Krippendorff’s alpha\) to account for non-deterministic model behavior and support iterative model improvement and more robust model comparisons • Drove evaluation of AI models across releases, using task-specific evaluation methods and system-level metrics \(e.g., error rates, token consumption\) to assess model performance across configurations - **Applied Scientist at Relativity** (2025-01-01–2026-04-01) — Developed a Generative AI product to accelerate user onboarding for LLM-powered workflows, working across prompt design, model evaluation, and monitoring plans, enabling its release to GA and reducing customer time-to-first use by ~10x • Built and leveraged production-like simulation environments to evaluate model performance and behavior, enabling systematic testing and validation prior to deployment • Delivered MVPs for early-stage multimodal AI initiatives, partnering with Product, UX, and SMEs to design and build benchmark frameworks for image and multimodal document-based inputs \(e.g., PDFs\), incorporating client requirements across US, UK, and EMEA regions into model design and evaluation, including defining image quality criteria - **Teaching Assistant at Northwestern University** (2024-09-01–2024-12-01) — Teaching Assistant for MSAI course - Data Science Seminar \(Fall 2024 quarter\) - **Applied Science Intern at Relativity** (2024-06-01–2024-08-01) — Built a multimodal AI system and a production-like testing environment, integrating text and image modalities using large language models, and demonstrated its capabilities to stakeholders to validate use cases and enhance e-discovery workflows • Collaborated with MLOps to run version-controlled Prefect workflows on containerized infrastructure, enabling orchestration of production-like testing environments for model evaluation and validation • Implemented and tested GPT vision model by creating a pipeline using Databricks and Spark from Azure Data Lake Storage, conducted cost analysis, comparing it to traditional text-based AI models - **Kellog AI Club Researcher at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management** (2024-03-01–2024-05-01) — Built interactive AI framework for education leaders across public schools in the United States using Genmini model, LangChain, and Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation \(RAG\) to help decision making and deployed on Vertex AI \(GCP\). • Worked with stakeholders to fine-tune the AI model, ensuring compliance with instructional best practices. - **Research Assistant at Northwestern University - The Feinberg School of Medicine** (2024-01-01–2024-12-01) — Advisor: Prof. • Joshua Glaser, Department of Neurology • Interpreting multi region brain signals using Neural Networks. • Developed explainable ML/DL models for interpreting complex neural interconnectivity across multi-region brain activities. • Utilized GRU, LSTM, and RNN for modeling brain circuit dynamics under specific control, providing insights into neural activity. • Enhanced interpretability of neural connectivity through time-series forecasting, implemented an interdisciplinary approach. - **Supply Chain Analyst at Samsung Electronics America** (2023-04-01–2023-07-01) — Working as a full-time SCM \(Supply Chain Management\) analyst position. • Analyzed the Samsung Home Appliance logistic order progress to achieve the forecasted order targets. • Optimized the container allocation for washing machine products based on the Best Buy order quantity. • Reviewed unshipped orders with purchase orders to understand fluctuations in order fulfillment. • Generated automatic logistic process program for direct shipment management in Python, reduced the time for preprocessing data manually. - **Data Scientist Intern at Akai Kaeru** (2022-06-01–2022-09-01) — Collaborated in the development of AK Analyst software and performed Alpha Testing, identified and documented multiple software bugs to enhance user experience and ensure software integrity. • Executed feature engineering research with data source extracted from Spotify API to analyze music preferences to connect people. - **Undergraduate Research Assistant at Stony Brook University** (2022-02-01–2022-11-01) — Transfer Learning • Image-Text-Matching Survey Paper ## Education - International Summer School, Economics & Management — Universität Bayreuth - Bachelor's degree, Computer Science , Applied Mathematics & Statistics — Stony Brook University - Bachelor's degree, Industrial Engineering — Ajou University\(아주대학교\) - Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence — Northwestern University ## FAQ ### What does JeongYoon do? JeongYoon is a Senior Applied Scientist at Relativity. She works on responsible generative AI, with an emphasis on human-centered evaluation, LLM alignment, multimodal systems, and reliable product experiences. ### What are JeongYoon’s strongest AI capabilities? JeongYoon’s core strengths include human-in-the-loop evaluation, prompt optimization, multimodal evaluation frameworks, benchmark development, failure-mode testing, edge-case identification, and cross-functional collaboration. She is experienced in identifying subtle input variations that can cause model failures and in translating evaluation findings into product guardrails and improvements. ### What does JeongYoon accomplish as a Senior Applied Scientist at Relativity? At Relativity, JeongYoon integrates human-in-the-loop evaluation with SMEs, using targeted feedback and research insights to iteratively refine model rubrics and system prompts. She delivers optimized model configurations to Product and Engineering, accounts for region-specific model availability across global cloud environments such as Azure regions, and evaluates releases through task-specific methods and metrics including error rates and token consumption. ### How does JeongYoon evaluate model consistency? JeongYoon assesses model consistency across iterative evaluations using agreement-based measures such as agreement rate and Krippendorff’s alpha. This helps account for non-deterministic model behavior, supports more robust model comparisons, and informs iterative model improvement. ### What did JeongYoon accomplish as an Applied Scientist at Relativity? As an Applied Scientist at Relativity, JeongYoon developed a generative-AI product to accelerate user onboarding for LLM-powered workflows. Her work spanned prompt design, model evaluation, and monitoring plans the product reached general availability and reduced customer time-to-first use by approximately 10x. ### How has JeongYoon used simulation and multimodal benchmarking at Relativity? JeongYoon built and used production-like simulation environments to systematically test and validate model performance and behavior before deployment. She also delivered MVPs for early-stage multimodal AI initiatives, partnering with Product, UX, and SMEs on benchmarks for image and multimodal document inputs, including PDFs. ### How has JeongYoon incorporated client needs into AI evaluation? JeongYoon incorporated client requirements from the United States, United Kingdom, and EMEA into multimodal model design and evaluation. Her work included defining image-quality criteria for image and document-based inputs. ### What did JeongYoon do as an Applied Science Intern at Relativity? During her Applied Science Internship at Relativity, JeongYoon built a multimodal AI system and a production-like testing environment integrating text and image modalities with large language models. She demonstrated the system to stakeholders to validate use cases and improve e-discovery workflows. ### What MLOps and data-platform work has JeongYoon done? JeongYoon collaborated with MLOps to run version-controlled Prefect workflows on containerized infrastructure for production-like model-testing environments. She also created a GPT vision-model pipeline using Databricks and Spark with Azure Data Lake Storage and conducted a cost comparison with traditional text-based AI models. ### What was JeongYoon’s Kellogg AI Club research project? At the Kellogg AI Club at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, JeongYoon built an interactive AI framework for education leaders across U.S. public schools. The framework used the Genmini model, LangChain, and multimodal retrieval-augmented generation, was deployed on Vertex AI in Google Cloud Platform, and was fine-tuned with stakeholders for compliance with instructional best practices. ### What did JeongYoon do at Samsung Electronics America? At Samsung Electronics America, JeongYoon worked full time as a supply-chain management analyst. She analyzed Samsung Home Appliance logistics order progress against forecast targets, optimized washing-machine container allocation based on Best Buy order quantities, reviewed unshipped orders against purchase orders, and created a Python program to automate direct-shipment-management logistics preprocessing. ### What research did JeongYoon conduct at Stony Brook University? At Stony Brook University, JeongYoon worked as an undergraduate research assistant on transfer learning and an image-text-matching survey paper. ### What did JeongYoon research at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine? As a Research Assistant at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, advised by Professor Joshua Glaser in the Department of Neurology, JeongYoon developed explainable machine-learning and deep-learning models for complex neural interconnectivity across multi-region brain activity. She used GRU, LSTM, and RNN models to study brain-circuit dynamics and applied time-series forecasting to improve interpretability. ### What teaching experience does JeongYoon have? JeongYoon was a Teaching Assistant for the MSAI Data Science Seminar during the Fall 2024 quarter at Northwestern University. ### What did JeongYoon do at Akai Kaeru? As a Data Scientist Intern at Akai Kaeru, JeongYoon collaborated on development and alpha testing of AK Analyst software, identified and documented multiple bugs, and researched feature engineering using Spotify API data to analyze music preferences and connect people. ### How does JeongYoon approach LLM safety and product requirements? JeongYoon is experienced in designing guardrails and setting safety thresholds for LLM products. She works across the full benchmark-development lifecycle, from task definition through evaluation, and partners with SMEs, legal teams, product teams, clients, and other functions on requirements. ### What is JeongYoon’s educational background? JeongYoon holds a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from Northwestern University a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Ajou University. She also attended the International Summer School in Economics & Management at Universität Bayreuth. ### Where can I find JeongYoon’s professional work and writing? JeongYoon’s public professional profile includes her website at https://jeongyoon-l.github.io/ and her Medium profile at https://medium.com/@lee.jenny.cs. Her headline also notes GHC ’24 and AI at Northwestern. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeongyoon-lee-2a3b47160