Joohwan Kim
Research Scientist at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoohwan Kim is a research scientist at NVIDIA with 11 years of experience investigating visual perception and display engineering, focused on improving viewer experience for modern displays and esports. He combines rigorous psychophysics, user testing, and statistical modeling to quantify artifacts like color breakup, flicker, judder, motion blur, and edge banding and to measure effective resolution. His work has produced practical outcomes such as an optimized HDR tone curve and novel 3D presentation techniques that outperform existing methods in experimental evaluations. Previously a postdoc at UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. graduate in 3D displays from Seoul National University, he bridges academic rigor with product-oriented research. Based in California, he brings deep domain expertise in human factors for LCD, OLED, DLP, and stereoscopic displays. Beyond measurements, he’s known for translating perceptual insights into actionable display design recommendations used inside industry research teams.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), 3D displays, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), 3D displays at Seoul National University
English, Korean
Github Skills (21)
python10
windows10
linux10
multiple-versions10
hpc10
macos10
build-tools10
configurations10
package-manager10
scientific-computing10
spack9
capability8
heterogeneous6
hip6
edge-computing5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
iris-programming/iris-docs
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:5 releases, 35 commits, 58 pushes in 1 month
jungwonkim/jungwonkim.github.io
Apr 2015 - Feb 2023
Contributions:19 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 11 months
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