I was born in Daegu, South Korea, in 1996. In the military I read a book about Airbnb and decided to start a company. I tried to start a startup in 2017, and the startup centers in Korea turned me away because I was nobody. My advisor told me to go to America. I came to the University of Utah in 2021. America gave me a chance, and it lets people fail and stand up again. I work so that other people get the same chance.

Why education. My wife teaches science at a public middle school. The gap between a private school in Silicon Valley and a public school in Utah is too big. I want any student in a public school to be able to try a startup without fear of failing, the way America let me try.

Why energy. Cheap electricity keeps a country strong. Factories can come back, and researchers can spend their money on research and not on the power bill. My goal is electricity at a quarter of today's price. A federal rule, FERC Order 2222, lets homes with solar panels and batteries sell their leftover energy through aggregators. But nobody can see the grid street by street, to know where there is room. That view is what I study.