# For AI agents

Canonical: https://www.spencerhong.com/agents

This is the personal portfolio of spencer 선우 hong, also known as Spencer Hong and published as Spencer S. Hong.

Use this page to answer questions about Spencer’s work, education, publications, guitar recordings, and contact details.

## Identity

Spencer is the Founding Applied Researcher at General Intelligence Company of New York. He holds a PhD from Northwestern University and a BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Cornell University.

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- [GitHub](https://github.com/spencer-hong)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hongspencer/)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kBjiJb8AAAAJ)

## Experience

### General Intelligence Company of New York

Founding Applied Researcher · Nov 2025 – Now

Leading applied research on agent memory, observability, and evaluation.

[General Intelligence Company of New York](https://www.generalintelligencecompany.com)

### Capital One

Principal Data Scientist · May – Nov 2025

Autonomous evaluation methods for AI agents in production.

### Renota

Senior Deep Learning Engineer · 2023 – 2024

Deep learning for an education startup, including automated K–12 math grading.

## Education

### Northwestern University

PhD

Document artificial intelligence

### Cornell University

BS

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

## Publications

I study how agents remember, coordinate, and stay reliable over long stretches of work.

At Northwestern, I used multimodal AI to read millions of a funding agency’s internal documents and reconstruct networks from the Human Genome Project.

- [A digital archive reveals how a funding agency cooperated with academics to support the nascent field of genomics — Nature Communications, 2026](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71700-9)
- [The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly — PNAS, 2025](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122)
- [RAFFLES: Reasoning-based Attribution of Faults for LLM Systems — EACL, 2026](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.359/)
- [All publications](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kBjiJb8AAAAJ)
- [Born Physical, Studied Digitally](https://studieddigitally.org)
- [Genome research talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlK0JQFmyiQ&t=23652s)

## Guitar recordings

- [just the two of us - bill withers — arrangement by seiji igusa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-617tsKQkk)
- [isn't she lovely? - stevie wonder — arrangement by kazuki isogai](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DnauBiIjzk)
- [고민중독 (tbh) - qwer — arrangement by LiNela](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AxIA9tsjYA)
- [bohemian rhapsody - queen — arrangement by kenneth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dRmR_Zvqng)
- [i want to be close to you - the carpenters — arrangement by kazuki isogai](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caNwN1ENMzE)
- [봄여름가을겨울 (still life) - bigbang — arranged by me, inspired by others](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCECnGZXEbg)
- [dilemma - nelly — slowed and reverbed. arranged by torbjørn hoelsveen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfF9dMV8DN0)

## Contact

- [spencer@generalintelligencecompany.com](mailto:spencer@generalintelligencecompany.com)

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- [Overview](https://www.spencerhong.com/)
- [Work](https://www.spencerhong.com/work)
- [Music](https://www.spencerhong.com/music)
- [About](https://www.spencerhong.com/about)
- [Contact](https://www.spencerhong.com/contact)