Jeho Park, Ph.D.

Director of the Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab; Visiting Assistant Professor

Department

Mathematical Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Applied Mathematics
Computer Science
Data Science
High Performance Computing
Parallel Processing
Statistics

Biography

Dr. Jeho Park is a long-time member of the Claremont Colleges community. After receiving his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Claremont Graduate University in 2009, he started his career at Harvey Mudd College (HMC) as the Scientific Computing Specialist. Park became the Associate Director of HMC’s Academic and Research Computing group, where he established scientific and research computing services for students and faculty who needed help with their projects and theses. He also designed and ran various workshops and training sessions for R, MATLAB, Big Data, and Tableau. He has taught various CS courses at Harvey Mudd College, Claremont Graduate University, and Cal State University, Long Beach. The courses include Intro to Parallel and High Performance Computing (Harvey Mudd College, Claremont Graduate University), Parallel Programming, Business Application Development, Discrete Mathematics, Operating Systems, etc.

Park co-founded SoDAVi (Social Data Analysis and Visualization), a non-profit organization whose members help Korean-American community utilize data for their business and social movement. He was the President of the Korean-American Computer Scientists and Engineers Association (KOCSEA) in 2019-2020. He is also actively involved in Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) serving the community as an executive committee and general director for various activities. His research and career interests are in high performance computing, data science, AI/Machine Learning, and computer science and mathematics education.