Juho Kim
Graduate Research Assistant
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuho Kim is a PhD student and research-focused software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building distributed systems, real-time control software, and decision-making AI for competitive domains such as poker and autonomous vehicles. Currently a Graduate Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon, he directs an open, industry-facing computer poker research group that has produced academic papers and widely adopted tools. His background spans cloud database services, embedded vehicle control with fail-safe designs, and practical ML/AI deployments—highlighted by work on variance reduction for poker evaluation and a Kalman-filter battery estimator for a solar race vehicle. Juho blends rigorous academic training from University of Toronto with production-grade engineering at companies like Huawei and startups, often translating theoretical results into deployed systems. He’s notable for turning niche domain knowledge (30+ regional poker variants encoded into software) into reusable research and commercial assets.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at York Mills Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Applied Science (with honours), Engineering Science, 3.6/4.0, Bachelor of Applied Science (with honours), Engineering Science, 3.6/4.0 at University of TorontoDoctor of Philosophy, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Korean, Japanese, French
Github Skills (53)
fst10
artificial-intelligence10
strings10
lists10
python10
redis10
nosql10
in-memory10
key-value10
poker10
reinforcement-learning10
data-model10
game-theory10
disk10
deep-learning10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AussieSeaweed/personal-landing-page
Oct 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:141 commits, 152 pushes, 7 branches in 11 months
AussieSeaweed/krieg
Aug 2020 - Feb 2022
A Python game framework library implementing various poker and other board games.
Contributions:3 releases, 4 PRs, 651 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pythongamesframeworkgame-developmentpython3
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