Jimmy Kim
Senior Research Scientist at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Kim is a Senior Research Scientist at Meta with nine years of experience bridging physics, machine learning, and product-facing experimentation to drive business impact for Instagram. Trained as a physicist (PhD, Northwestern) and honed in high-pressure, cross-functional environments, he designs robust feature engineering and signal-processing solutions that improve neural model performance and ad spend insights. He has led multi-team efforts coordinating 15+ engineers and scientists, translating complex research into scalable production pipelines and interpretable analyses. Prior work spans multi-agent RL, information-theoretic neural analysis, active learning for language models, and practical CV/NLP tooling from internships at Uber and Facebook, reflecting a rare combination of theoretical rigor and applied engineering. Colleagues rely on him for navigating ambiguity and delivering value where research meets product.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, 3.928, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, 3.928 at Northwestern UniversityHonours B.Sc., Mathematics and Physics. Minor in Philosophy., 3.97, Honours B.Sc., Mathematics and Physics. Minor in Philosophy., 3.97 at University of Toronto - University of Trinity College
Korean
Github Skills (12)
efficientnet8
classification7
resnet7
meta-learning7
visual-recognition6
multiclass-classification6
imagenet5
computer-vision5
deep-learning4
incremental-learning4
pytorch4
image-classification4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hjjimmykim/resume
Feb 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
rath-jeremy/Soccer_Success
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:59 commits, 53 pushes in 2 days
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