Jay Choi

Background

About Jay Choi

I’m Jaehyuk “Jay” Choi, founder and CEO of Nearthlab. I founded Nearthlab because I believe in the potential of autonomous drones as a safer, more precise and more efficient tool for data acquisition. I first came to realize that potential while working on my master’s thesis on vision-based automated flight technology for UAVs. After graduation, I had an opportunity to work as a power plant engineer at Doosan Heavy Industries (now Doosan Enerbility), where I learned of the dangers inherent in human-based inspection. That experience led me to found Nearthlab in 2015 along with my close friend Youngsuk Chung, who had been working as a satellite system engineer, under the vision of “adding a new perspective to the world using drones.” We were confident that our background as aerospace engineers was going to play a pivotal role in revolutionizing the way inspection is done at industrial sites. Today I am honored to work with talented and passionate crews across the globe to develop solutions that leverage the power of artificial intelligence in order to accelerate digital transformation in wind energy as well as other industries. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in what we do (or joining our team)!