Jacob J. Choi
Musician×AI Engineer
"Melos contra mundum"
CS:AI student at Colby College (graduating May 2027). AI/Agentic Pipeline Engineer at The Jackson Laboratory, currently building a production agentic system and biomedical GraphRAG corpus for rural patients in Maine and North Carolina under the Maine Cancer Genomics Initiative, helping clinicians identify the right cancer treatment for each patient, backed by a three-year grant from the Duke Endowment. Focused on agent orchestration, lexicogrammar noise reduction, and citation-verified evidence ranking and retrieval.
Prior research at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies and a Turing study with Microsoft Research. Founder of TuneTales (AI music storytelling) and creator of HarmonyRestorer (AI audio restoration with a custom OpGAN).
Now
- AI/Agentic Pipeline EngineerMaine Cancer Genomics Initiative @ The Jackson Laboratory
- B.A. Computer Science: AIColby College, 3.86 GPA
Selected Work
HarmonyRestorer
AI-powered audio restoration platform with a custom-trained OpGAN benchmarked on 146K noisy/clean pairs (SDR 23.7 dB, PESQ 4.04)
Polymarket Research
Arbitrage detection and calibration research across 9,900+ prediction markets with production-grade resilience and observability
Credential Vault
On-chain identity system with guardian recovery, key rotation history, and consent-gated credential verification
TuneTales
AI-powered music storytelling platform that turns artist histories into immersive, narrative-driven experiences
Past
- Studied AbroadUniversity of Sydney, Spring 2025
- Turing Test SimulationMentored by Mark Encarnación, Microsoft ResearchIndependent Study, Colby College
- AI/ML Research InternUSC Institute for Creative Technologies (Los Angeles, CA)
- Legal InternShin & Kim Law Firm (Seoul, Korea)
- Investment Analyst InternColby College Office of Investments (Boston, MA)
Music & Stage
Entrepreneurship Competitions
Honors & Credentials
- RAG and Agentic AIIBM · 2025
- HBS CORe (Credential of Readiness)Harvard Business School · 2024
- Tuck Business Bridge ProgramTuck School of Business, Dartmouth · 2024
- Korean Ancestry GrantWilliam Orr Dingwall Foundation · 2023, 2024
- Safe Cycling ScholarshipFelix Gonzalez Law Firm · 2023
- Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist AwardNPR's From The Top · 2022
Contact
Open to conversations about AI engineering, research-to-production, and good music.
jacob77choi@gmail.com