Biography

Dr. Jeho Park is the founding Director of Murty Sunak Quantitative and Computing Lab and Visiting Assistant Professor in Mathematical Sciences at Claremont McKenna College. 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 is a co-founder and the Director of Data Analysis for SoDAVi (Social Data Analysis and Visualization), a non-profit organization. He was also elected President (2019 term) of the Korean-American Computer Scientists and Engineers Association. His research and career interests are in high performance computing, data science, AI/Machine Learning, and computer science and mathematics education.