Evidence over theater
We publish rubrics and rollback drills—not motivational posters.
Studio
People & principles
Cognidev began as a late-night lab in Gwangmyeong where product engineers borrowed classroom space to rehearse deploys before Monday standups. We still optimize for blunt feedback, written artifacts, and cohorts small enough that mentors remember your repo layout.
Regional honesty
Korean industrial timelines and holiday calendars shape how we schedule hybrid weeks.
Participant agency
You choose how much employer data enters labs; we provide sanitized baselines when needed.
Timeline
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2019
First public workshop on reproducible notebooks for vision QA teams in Gyeonggi.
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2021
Hybrid cohorts launched with mirrored lab benches in Seoul and remote EU-friendly evening sections.
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2024
Model Deployment Desk curriculum spun out as a dedicated track for inference owners.
Team
Eighteen people across instruction, curriculum design, student success, career coaching, and industry mentorship. Hover cards reveal focus areas.
Dr. Yuri Ahn
Academic Director
Sets academic standards and finalizes capstone rubrics.
Evaluation science
Haneul Min
Senior Instructor
Leads applied deep learning tracks.
Vision systems
Sora Kwon
Senior Instructor
Teaches streaming and mesh patterns.
Event pipelines
Noah Park
Senior Instructor
GPU profiling and sustainability narratives.
Hardware awareness
Elias Cho
Senior Instructor
Retrieval systems and hybrid search.
Vector indexes
Amira Haddad
Senior Instructor
Model evaluation and risk communication.
Responsible metrics
Jonas Meier
Senior Instructor
LLM integration and tool-first UX.
Assistant design
Camille Dubois
Senior Instructor
DAG design and lineage hygiene.
Orchestration
Zara Iqbal
Senior Instructor
Prompt libraries and reviewer workflows.
Prompt engineering
Mateo Silva
Senior Instructor
Progressive delivery for inference.
MLOps
Renee Okafor
Curriculum Designer
Sequences modules for hybrid cohorts.
Learning science
Tomáš Novák
Curriculum Designer
Builds lab notebooks and autograder stubs.
Developer experience
Lin Zhou
Student Success Manager
Coordinates accommodations and pacing.
Cohort health
Fatima Rahman
Student Success Manager
Runs office hour calendars.
Scheduling
Oscar Delgado
Career Coach
Mock interviews for ML platform roles.
Career narratives
Nadia Petrov
Career Coach
Resume reviews for senior IC tracks.
Staff-level stories
Kenji Morita
Industry Mentor
On-call practices from adtech inference.
SRE handoffs
Ivy OConnell
Industry Mentor
Governance patterns from finance ML.
Controls mapping