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Hwang Jin-ho, the Researcher of ’The center of technology innovation’ IBM Watson Laboratory
"Stop blaming your environment but prove yourself"
"Stop blaming your environment and prove yourself"
Kim Sung-Un, the head of the information & computer center of Pukyong National University, reported news about his student. He said that Hwang Jin-ho, who used to be his student, entered the IBM Watson Laboratory. This is good news right after the professor’s other student Lee Suk-Jin was appointed as the assistant professor of Texas A&M University of America last September. There should be something in the professor Kim's laboratory.
So, what is IBM Watson (T. J. Watson) Laboratory?
IBM is focusing on breaking the boundary technique with 250 000 researchers in 12 laboratories. It is using 6 billion dollars of the research budget annually, and has been ranked as the most patent-application company in America for 20 years.
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The T. J. Watson Laboratory in New York is the leading laboratory at the center of all IBM labs. The laboratory consisted of the best elite group of America is a starting place of technology innovation.
So, how can the alumni of Pukyong National University enter the laboratory? We sent an e-mail to ask about it, and we got the answer within days.
In his answer, one paragraph was very touching. It was the answer of a sentence for his juniors of PKNU.
"When I was working for a major company in Seoul, I didn't like to hear that I was from a local university. However, that was just an inferiority complex. The answer was to just prove my ability to other people. I hope that my juniors know that they have no limitations on their abilities and they should enjoy jumping up to the next step. I'm living with a confidence that I'm living my way what any other seniors of the university have never been. I hope that I can meet one of my juniors from PKNU one day."
"Proving yourself!" So, how did he prove himself to people?
He graduated from the department of information and communication engineering in PKNU in 1998. He finished graduate school in 2005, which was also in the same department. Then, he went to America and entered the computer engineering department of The George Washington University and he graduated in 2013.
The answer of his long and tough study life was as follows:
"There were two sentences that were always in my heart, 'Make impossible as possible' and 'genius is 99 percent of perspiration.' I think that never giving up until the result has come out is the most important thing. Everything in this world has a result whether it is good or bad, but if one gives up in the middle, they can't learn anything when they don't know the results of their efforts. At my age, I don’t make many mistakes because I have become more careful than before, but I think that when a mistake happens, that could be another chance to learn."
It shows that his strong will power covered with loneliness through some countless days and nights.
He said that he had a clear goal when he was a student. He wanted to finish his doctor's degree in three years, so he studied hard to achieve his goal. He did 10 thesis work and 3 conference presentations for two and a half years. He said that it is almost a miracle that he did all those things in such a short time. He got the best thesis prize in a conference, and finally completed his doctor's degree in three years.
The subject of his thesis paper for his doctor's degree is ‘Improving and Re-purposing Data Center Resource Usage with Virtualization'.
He said that the most important technology of cloud computing is controlling 'server virtualization' because resources such as CPU, memory, disk, and network can be virtualized in the virtualization environment. The thesis is about an effective resource management plan with the best profit from the given environment.
In addition, his major is linked with the Watson laboratory's leading technology. Mr. Hwang said that the laboratory is the leading group in cloud computing and big data cognitive computing fields which is a big issue recently. He said that the paperwork of the lab is overwhelming compared to other companies in the aspect of its quantity and quality.
The competition for entering this lab was quite strong, and the interview procedure was also long and tough. Two days were spent just for the interview. Let's check the interview procedure.
"On the first day, all the interviewees interested in this job attended and gave a presentation about their research plan for an hour, and then there was question and answer time after that. That was the most nervous moment. Then, the rest of time was for one-on-one discussions for 40 minutes with an interviewer, including researchers and executives. After finishing the interview, interviewers made a decision, combining all of the results. He said, “ I felt like I was exhausted after finishing the interview."
As he is working in America, he might be good at English. How did he find a way to complete his English?
"Americans don't expect that Asian's English would be perfect. If you have something to say in your head, it can be delivered in any way. Therefore, my effort for English was not about how to pronounce well, but more about how to say what I was thinking. In addition, which word to use was more important than speaking with perfect grammar. For sure, listening should be *(completed) to make these things possible. I think that practicing listening consistently for 3 years has made my ear more receptive to English."
So, what is his dream? He is a researcher of the Cloud Computing Infrastructure Migration team in Watson Laboratory; migration means that the way needed to move original server environment to the cloud.
He said that being at the top of this field is his goal as he decided to be a researcher.
"One day, I attended a conference. I met a student from another school, and we talked a lot as we were studying similar fields. I asked him about my thesis and he was surprised that the paper he read was mine. This kind of experience is quite meaningful to me. At the end, being at the top of a field is the way that I can gain recognition from other researchers. At first, I want to receive recognition from the researchers in my team that I'm working for at the moment, and then I want to gain it from other departments, labs, America and the world."
If you have more questions about him, you can send an e-mail to jinho@us.ibm.com. He is living in New York at the moment. <Pukyong Today>
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