Brian Kim
Founder & Chief Data Scientist
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Kim is the Founder and Chief Data Scientist at Open Augments and a researcher-founder who blends open-source AI infrastructure with rigorous education policy research across eight years of experience. He built DAAF, an agentic open-source workflow that accelerates quantitative analysis while preserving transparency, reproducibility, and scientific rigor, and consults on AI infrastructure for national education nonprofits and universities. Previously he led data science, research, and analytics at Common App, translating causal and descriptive evidence into operational programs that served millions of students and hundreds of partners. A former public school teacher turned PhD researcher at UVA, his published work on college admissions and early LLM applications to educational data has informed policy and been cited widely in national media. He trains practitioners on responsible AI adoption, emphasizing auditability and human-centered design, and has secured support from major funders including Gates, Carnegie, and NAEd/Spencer. Based in Boston, he combines classroom experience, econometric rigor, and practical AI tooling to expand equity and analytic capacity in the public sector.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Teaching Credential, English/Economics Double-major, Teaching/Music Double-minor, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) and Teaching Credential, English/Economics Double-major, Teaching/Music Double-minor at Bowdoin CollegeMaster of Public Policy - MPP, Master of Public Policy - MPP at University of Virginia Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public PolicyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Education Policy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Education Policy at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (21)
bert8
topic-models8
tf-idf8
r-package8
r7
sentence-embeddings7
topic-modeling7
stata7
decision-tree6
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
machine-learning6
text-analytics6
claude5
helm5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
brhkim/brhkim.github.io
Jan 2019 - Dec 2025
Contributions:248 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 6 years 11 months
brhkim/mapping-education-deserts
Feb 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:17 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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