Partner
Myeongjae Jeon
General Partner, Head of Research, Pragma Ventures
- Firm
- Pragma Ventures
- Title
- General Partner, Head of Research
- Role
- General partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 20 September 2026
About
MJ is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at POSTECH, one of the top research schools in South Korea. He completed his PhD at Rice University, USA, under the supervision of Prof. Alan L. Cox and Prof. Scott Rixner. MJ's background extends across both academia and industry, having worked at Microsoft Research and ARM Research. His research has been integrated into various Microsoft production systems, including Bing and Azure. He collaborates closely with Kakao (Korean TikTok) and Samsung to build an open platform for large model training based on decentralized resources. He also leads a research lab, focusing on AI systems, real-time big data analytics, and systems for emerging hardware.
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