About me

My name is Karl L. Sangwon. I’m currently a Neurosurgery Resident at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, with a deep interest in Computational Medicine research and entrepreneurship. To colloquially put it, my main interest lies in augmenting and exploring new perspectives on the modern Art of Medicine using advanced technologies, to create a more 21st-century ‘cyberpunk’ medical paradigm that fits my vision. It is my passionate vision to expand, represent, and clinically redefine our traditional definitions as well as approaches toward ‘diseases and disorders’ in a more mathematical, computable, and surgical manner.

I received my M.D. from NYU Grossman School of Medicine in 2026, and my B.S. in Neuroscience, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Computational Medicine from Johns Hopkins University in 2022, where I spent most of my time doing neurodegeneration, multi-omics computational genomics, and radiomics research.

My current primary research interests are in the application of computational analytics in neurosurgery, as well as neurosurgical robotics and data science in healthcare.

I’m a first-generation Korean American and also an amateur artist. I came to the US alone when I was 14 to start a new life — since then I’ve been sailing towards the north star of the American Dream… Outside of academics, I have a wide array of art and cultural interests — I have been a backpack camper, painter, guitarist, and many others. Chances are, I’m learning a new hobby or trying out some random things at the moment.