Jun Son

I build products and do research to break concentration: in education, in energy, in opportunity.

now (Apr 2026): wiring Node A of the PDES testbed, drafting Paper 1 for Grid Edge 2027, reading Navidi and Buechler.

I run LaunchWith, a 501(c)(3) platform for student founders, and I study distributed energy systems. These started as two separate threads: a student-startup nonprofit, and graduate research on entropy. They connected in an unexpected place. Working with LaunchWith collaborators in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, who kept losing reliable power mid-call, I stopped treating electricity as invisible infrastructure. That's what turned my research toward DER coordination and FERC Order 2222. I'm preparing PhD applications in energy systems for Fall 2028.

Based in Salt Lake City. Reach me at lovejsson@gmail.com.

building

2024. I pivoted LaunchWith from a C-corp to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. It's a free platform where student founders find teammates and run projects with milestone planning, Kanban boards, and team chat. Partners include the Great Zambezi Initiative, Nyamuk Africa, ElevateTrust, acf, and LettuceBuild. Funded by Scout memberships, tax-deductible donations, and merchandise.

Around the same time I cofounded ecoblox.build, an edtech suite: a landing site, a full-stack course platform, game-based environmental STEM curriculum, and lettucebuild, a parent portal (Next.js + NestJS + Firebase).

Why. Public schools haven't kept up with the AI era. Critical thinking, especially, is widening the gap between private and public school students. ecoblox.build is built to close that gap by raising the public-school baseline.

2022. I started LaunchWith as a C-corp. Along the way I built legalwith, a legal-services platform for LLC formations, trademark filings, and eSignature.

Personal tools. diversification is a personal-finance iOS app using Plaid and the Claude API to classify spending and surface concentration in portfolios.

research

2026. I'm building PDES (Project Decentralized Energy System), an open-source simulator for multi-device coordination of distributed energy resources under FERC Order 2222. It centers two ideas that rarely get studied together: uncertainty in small-DER forecasts, and hardware-in-the-loop physical nodes (Raspberry Pi Pico with INA219 current sensors and AM2302 temperature/humidity sensors).

Paper 1 for Grid Edge 2027 (Salt Lake City) measures the coordination gap left open by Navidi et al.'s 2023 Joule paper. The paper is scoped deliberately narrowly: measure the gap, don't solve it. Forthcoming.

MS thesis. My master's research in kinesiology used entropy and information-theoretic methods to measure variability in motor control. The framework transfers cleanly to distributed energy: same question, different signal.

Publications.

other projects

writing

Nothing published yet. Expect notes on PDES methodology, Paper 1, and the road to PhD apps.

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