Ph.D. Candidate, Northeastern University

Hyoungseo Son

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UNREALTIME●Flanner●BCI Neural Visualization System●Trippo●CoHabitAI●Booky●MotZip●D4D Anti-Drone●TEKKAL●AsyncPair●Zerve × ODSC AI Datathon●SegRec●EchoBoard●

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Hyoungseo Son

Hyoungseo Son

Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University

Research interests

  • Physics Simulation
  • GPU-Accelerated Simulation
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Differentiable Simulation

Education

  • Northeastern University

    Northeastern UniversityBoston, MA

    2024.09 - present

    Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering

    Advised by Seungmoon Song · GPA 3.96 / 4.0

  • Kyungpook National University

    Kyungpook National UniversitySouth Korea

    2018.03 - 2021.02

    B.S., Mechanical Engineering (Computer Science minor)

    Summa Cum Laude, 1st / 152

Selected coursework

  • Reinforcement Learning and Sequential Decision Making
  • Deep Learning
  • Machine Learning
  • Theory of Optimization
  • Human Movement Simulation
  • Wearable Robotics

Experience

  • Gachisoft Inc.Software Research Engineer

    2021 – 2024
    • Logistics Digital Twin System deployed at two Korea Post sites; 3D physics environment and throughput prediction in Unity (C#, Python)
    • 3D vision system for Coupang; PLC integration for real-time control (C++, OpenCV)

Publications

  1. MyoAssist 1.0: An Open-Source Framework for Neuromechanical Simulation of Physical Human-Device Interaction

    2026

    Calder Robbins, Hyoungseo Son, Chun Kwang Tan, Cheryl Wang, Roger van Kanten, Massimo Sartori, Guillaume Durandau, Vikash Kumar, Vittorio Caggiano, Seungmoon Song

    bioRxiv preprint

  2. Development of a Novel Plastic Hardening Model Based on Random Tree Growth Method

    2020

    Hyoungseo Son, Young-Gon Kim, Jin-Jae Kim, Young-Suk Kim

    Korean Journal of Metals and Materials 58(11), 741–751

Projects

All 13 projects
Hackathon2026

UNREALTIME

Live AI Music Instruments

Live AI music workflow that turns rough prompts and messy loops into playable instruments with Magenta RealTime 2.

1st Place

Hackathon2026

Flanner

Knot API track

Turns six months of DoorDash / Uber Eats orders into a weekly home-cooked meal plan, then auto-fills your Amazon Fresh cart.

1st Place ($500)

Hackathon2026

BCI Neural Visualization System

Real-time guidance for surgeons placing 1024-channel ECoG arrays.

1st Place ($1,000)

Hackathon2026

Trippo

Group travel chat that becomes a film when the trip ends: chat is the planner, photos cluster by EXIF + GPS, one-tap recap reel.

2nd Place ($1,000)

Ideathon2025

CoHabitAI

AI Manager for Roommate Living

Whose turn was it to clean? Who still owes rent? CoHabitAI is an AI manager that coordinates the friction points of shared living, fairly.

Winner

Hackathon2026

Booky

Social reading platform with story-branching choices and an AI-generated solar system.

Finalist

Honors & awards

MuseHub Track, Music Technology Hackathon, Berklee, 1st Place2026
HackPrinceton Spring 2026, Knot API track, 1st Place ($500)2026
Precision Neuroscience BCI Hackathon, 1st Place ($1,000)2026
Remy Hackathon 2026, 2nd Place ($1,000)2026
LikeLion US 2025 Ideathon, Winner (Top 3)2025
R-BIZ Challenge, Presidential Award (₩3,000,000)2019
National Scholarship for Science and Engineering, Full Tuition2020

Tech stack

Claude CodeCodex

After seven years of manual coding, I now build entirely through LLMs.

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