Hello!
I'm Shawn. Legally known as Sihyun.
Welcome to my personal portfolio website!
...no, that's a huge overstatement.
Uh... welcome to the thing that is a conglomeration of crudely constructed HTML, CSS, and JS code snippets that I copy-pasted from StackOverflow and Youtube.
I'm not even joking -- that's all that this is. The fancy navbar at the top? That cool typewriter effect? The pretty animations on my projects? That's all just copy-pasted code that I spent hours tweaking.
Then again, that's most industry code for you.
Right now, I'm a junior at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science. But my life has taken me all around the world -- from Seoul to New Delhi to Johannesburg to Pittsburgh. I've lived in 4 different countries for an extended period of time, and I've visited way more. My family is still moving around without me -- they're currently in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, so who knows what will happen next?
It's led to an interesting situation where I don't really know where I can call home anymore. But I'm okay with that. I think whereever the people I care most about are is home to me. And as of now, that's Pittsburgh :)
Before I came to CMU, I was a sergeant in the Republic of Korea Army, a U-17 national-level lacrosse player for Korea, head of media communications for my high school's student council, and also kind of a dumbass. As you can tell, I had a lot of interests. But I'm unfortunately no longer any of those (except for the last one), and so I'm trying to find out what I really am interested in professionally.
I think as of the near future, my interests lie in the intersection of technology and quantatative finance. Thankfully, I was fortunate enough to receive multiple offers from quant firms this year, and so I'll be interning at Jump Trading next summer. Super exciting!
Previously, I was at Bodo.ai, a Pittsburgh-based startup, where I worked on helping create a highly parallelizable SQL engine. And before that, I worked with Prof. Louis-Phillipe Morency to publish an ACL 2024 paper on large language models.
I like making music, photo/videography, and spending time with people I trust and care about.
Welcome! If you've read this far, you get a virtual hug from me. :)