Co-founder and CEO of Pomona AI, building R&D infrastructure for systematic controlled-environment experimentation in plant biotechnology.

Pomona AI builds integrated hardware and software systems that make large-scale, parallel, multifactorial experiments across dozens to hundreds of controlled-environment conditions possible. This allows R&D teams to generate standardized, model-ready data on plant environment response through reproducible experimentation at scale. Its systems are designed for trait development and plant-based biomanufacturing, where environmental conditions materially shape yield and unit economics.

Before founding Pomona AI, Tae-Yeon (Erik) drove innovation at adidas and Samsung and helped scale CloudKitchens.