Ann Arbor, MI

Hi!

I'm Namho

📚 Current [second year] MSc in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

🤖 Incoming NVIDIA ML engineer 2024

🔬NLP Research @LIT

About

My passion lies in conducting rigorous and salient research in developing tangible software applications to address true user needs and issues. I thoroughly enjoy tackling complex problems through an interdisciplinary manner whilst evaluating the efficacy in a scientific approach.

During my free time, I enjoy power/weight-lifting and  Brazilian jiu jitsu.

Teaching

EECS 486 (Information Retrieval and Web Search) W23 & W24: lecture
EECS 587 (Parallel Computing) F23: lecture

OpenCV + Android Studios + TensorFlow Lite

VidereX

Navigation application for the blind and visually impaired (BVI) using the ingenuity of ant navigation.

Paper: Koh, Nam Ho, et al. "VidereX: A Navigational Application inspired by ants." arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.03000 (2023)
R3AL Workshop (RSS2023): here
BCS award presentation: here
Demo: here

Android Studios + Augmented Reality SDK + NLU model

Appliance Helper

Android application to study the efficacy of various modalities in delivering instructional information over voice and augmented reality.

Demo: here

Bixby + SmartThings + AWS

MDE Smarthome

Smart home agent through Samsung Bixby capsule. Voice UI development and asynchronous event system integration. Data gathered through large-scal data collection system for occupancy and activity inferencing.

Demo: here