Summary
Jeongmin Kim is a blockchain researcher and former tech lead with nine years of experience bridging academic rigor and product-focused engineering from Seoul. With a PhD in Computer Science from KAIST, he has led inter-chain, L1, and smart contract teams at PILAB while specializing in automatic program analysis, IoT interoperability, and DeFi security. After nearly three years managing network development, he’s returned to hands-on research, bringing both leadership perspective and deep vulnerability-analysis expertise to protocol design. He publishes technical insights on a personal Substack and combines low-level security thinking with practical delivery, a blend shaped by early frontend engineering experience and sustained academic study.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Yeongnam University
Ph.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology