David Sehyuk Park

David Sehyuk Park is a co-founder and the Chief Information Officer of Moloco, the machine-learning advertising technology company he founded in 2013 alongside CEO Ikkjin Ahn. As a teenager in the Republic of Korea he was a standout competitive programmer, winning a silver medal at the 1996 International Olympiad in Informatics (rank 52) and a gold medal at IOI 1998 (rank 5 of 241, 680/700). He studied computer science at Seoul National University and then earned a graduate degree in computer science and machine learning at Stanford University, before working as a software engineer at Oracle and going on to build Moloco - the company behind Moloco Ads, which applies deep-learning to performance advertising and reached unicorn valuation.

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• Co-founded Moloco in 2013 with CEO Ikkjin Ahn, applying deep learning to performance advertising; the two met via the Korean competitive-programming and engineering elite pipeline (Ahn had worked at Google/YouTube before Moloco).2013
• Board member as well as CIO - CB Insights lists his title as Founder, Chief Information Officer, Board Member, indicating board-level governance authority in addition to his executive IT/ML remit.
• Two-time IOI medalist four years apart (1996 silver at rank 52, 1998 gold at rank 5) - a steep improvement that put him in the top handful of competitive programmers in the world in his cohort.Sep 12, 1998
• Path from Seoul National University CS to Stanford ML to Oracle to founding an AI adtech unicorn traces the classic top-tier Korean CS-to-Silicon-Valley trajectory; the IOI gold gave an early signal of the algorithmic depth Moloco is built on.1998
• Listed location is Stanford, California, consistent with his Stanford graduate work; he remains based in the Bay Area where Moloco is headquartered.