Toward
Positive Social Impact
I’m Mel.
I find what people need,
then make it work as a business.
Product Manager across AI, B2B SaaS, and digital health.
I lead cross-functional teams from user research to launch, toward products with lasting social impact.
B2B AI SaaS
$60K+ MRR
A sleep-tech startup's first B2B revenue line, built 0 → 1
Digital Health
K-FDA Approved
Clinical trial for an insomnia digital therapeutic
AI Search
6.8% → 0.22%
No-result searches on a 3.5M‑MAU grocery platform
AI Research
EMNLP 2025
Main Conference paper, co‑first author
What I've built.
AI Research
What I've published.
EMNLP 2025 Main Conference · Nov 2025
PhoniTale: Phonologically Grounded Mnemonic Generation for Typologically Distant Language Pairs
Sana Kang*, Myeongseok Gwon*, Su Young Kwon*, Jaewook Lee, Andrew Lan, Bhiksha Raj, Rita Singh
- Summary: Generates phonologically grounded mnemonics that help learners memorize vocabulary in a typologically distant language.
- Role: Designed and ran the user study evaluating the mnemonics, then led the data analysis.
KR102681197B1 · Issued Jul 2024
AI-Based Non-Contact Sleep Analysis Method and Real-Time Sleep Environment Creation Method
Dongheon Lee, Chieun Ahn, Su Young Kwon, Yoonpyo Koo, Sang Hyun Lee, Jinhwan Jung, Chae Eun Lee, Junki Hong, Hye Ah Park, Hyunggug Kim, So Ra Kang, Jaehyun Bae, Woojung Lim
- Summary: AI-based non-contact sleep analysis and real-time sleep environment control, without wearables.
- Role: Co-inventor on Asleep's underlying sleep-analysis method.
Korean Society of Design Science (KSDS) · Oct 2015
An Improvement of Usability of 'Study Helper' Application through Usability Test
Su Young Kwon*, Jee-soo Kim*, Kyuhyeon Lee*, Soyeon Hong*, Myeong-Heum Yeoun
- Summary: Usability study identifying and fixing UI issues in a student study-planning app.
- Role: Conducted the usability testing, then redesigned the interface and validated the improvements.
* Equal contribution
Where the work was featured.
What I've been up to.
- Sep 2026
Selected for the inaugural cohort of the Block Student Fellowship on AI and Society at Carnegie Mellon University.
- Aug 2026
Started my Master of Design (MDes) in Interaction Design at Carnegie Mellon University School of Design!
- Feb 2026
Started advising ZiggsAI, a multi-AI agent collaboration platform startup, on Business and PM strategies.
- Nov 2025
Won the 1st Prize at the Global Data Convergence Talent Program Showcase, hosted by the Ministry of Science & ICT and IITP.
- Nov 2025
Presented our latest research at the EMNLP 2025 Main Conference in Suzhou, China.
- Oct 2025
Awarded the Excellence Award at the LLM Clinical Note Challenge organized by Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.
- Aug 2025
Our research paper 'PhoniTale' has been accepted to the EMNLP 2025 Main Conference.
- Jan 2025
Started as a Visiting Scholar at CMU School of Computer Science!
- Dec 2024
Launched the AI Collection Automation project for Kurly Home, streamlining generation and operations.
- Sep 2024
Started my Master's in Information Management at KAIST!
- Aug 2024
Successfully launched the hourly popular product collection automation for Kurly Now.
- Jul 2024
Launched the AI Search project at Kurly, which was featured as a success story at the Google Cloud Summit 2024.
- May 2024
Initiated collaborative research on AI Recipes with the Google Cloud team.
- Mar 2024
Joined Kurly, a leading e-commerce unicorn in Korea, as the first AI Product Manager!
- Jul 2023
Beta testing has commenced for 'Sweet Sleep,' a PoC service in collaboration with LG Electronics.
- Jul 2023
Officially launched 'Asleep Track,' a B2B AI SaaS product.
- Apr 2023
Appointed as the Head of the Sleep Track Platform Team.
- Apr 2023
Clinical trials have officially begun for 'SomMind,' a digital therapeutic (DTx) app for insomnia.
- Jun 2022
Appointed as the Leader of both the UX Team and the DTx Team, taking on my first cross-functional leadership role.
- Dec 2021
Led the project that resulted in Asleep being selected as the first Amazon Alexa collaboration partner in Korea.
- Sep 2021
Promoted to Product Team Lead, overseeing the UX/Design functional group.
- Apr 2021
Joined Asleep, an AI sleep-tech startup, as a Product Manager!