Richie (Seongmin) Youm
About Richie (Seongmin) Youm
Richie (Seongmin) Youm is a Data Scientist II at Wealthsimple, with a background in data science and business intelligence from companies like Upwork and Bell.
Title
Richie (Seongmin) Youm holds the position of Data Scientist II at Wealthsimple, where he has been working since 2021.
Company
Wealthsimple
Current Role at Wealthsimple
Richie Youm contributes to Wealthsimple from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, performing his duties remotely. His role involves leading initiatives like the integration of large language models into Wealthsimple’s products, presenting proof-of-concepts to C-level executives and board members. He has spearheaded a topic modeling project using an ensemble of finetuned distil-BERT models to automate ticket categorization, thereby reducing client experience friction and improving resolution SLA.
Previous Work Experience
Prior to Wealthsimple, Richie Youm worked at Upwork as a Data Scientist from 2019 to 2020. Before this, he was employed at Bell from 2019 to 2021, also as a Data Scientist in the Montreal, Canada Area. Additionally, Richie held the role of AI/ML Instructor at Digital Media Academy in 2019 and worked as a Business Intelligence Consultant at Bell in 2018 for three months. He gained consulting experience at Strategy Salad in Seoul, Korea, in 2017.
Education and Expertise
Richie is pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology, expected to be completed in 2025. He has a Bachelor of Commerce with a focus on Accounting and Analytics from McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management.
Notable Contributions at Wealthsimple
Richie Youm has significantly contributed to Wealthsimple's growth by developing an institutional division inference model, achieving a 90% accuracy rate from a previous 60%, which generated approximately $3 million per year in assets under management. He has also improved Wealthsimple’s machine learning infrastructure, resulting in a 1300% increase in model training speed.