talkpl.ai

Founded in 2024 after years of research collaboration between Keunwoo and Seungheon (since 2020). We share a deep passion for connecting music and text, and for shaping a future where music discovery becomes unbelievably advanced.


Keunwoo Choi

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Founding member of talkpl.ai

Senior Principal ML Scientist at Genentech

Expert in music AI and large language models, with extensive industry experience in music tech and AI:

  • Currently leading LLM development at Genentech
  • Former Research Scientist at Spotify and ByteDance AI Lab
  • Creator of Kapre (Keras Audio Preprocessing)
  • Best Paper Award at ISMIR 2017
  • PhD in Music AI from Queen Mary University of London

Seungheon Doh

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Founding member of talkpl.ai

Postdoctoral Researcher at KAIST

Specialized in connecting music with natural language and multimodal AI:

  • Research focus on music-language understanding and generation
  • Experience at Adobe, Chartmetric, ByteDance/TikTok
  • PhD from KAIST in Music and Audio Computing
  • Multiple publications on music-language models at top conferences
  • Awarded KAIST post-doctoral Fellowship for LLM4Music research