Ki-tae Kim
Software Engineer at Lam Research
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKi-tae Kim is a software engineer and computational mechanician with a decade of experience building high-performance numerical tools for science and engineering problems. He holds a PhD from MIT (minor in applied mathematics) and has led research and software development from hydroelastic simulations to scalable Bayesian inversion frameworks at institutions including Princeton, UC Merced, and Lam Research. Ki-tae specializes in enriched finite element and boundary element methods, eigensolvers and model-reduction techniques, and is fluent in C/C++, Fortran, Matlab and Python for production-grade HPC workflows. He combines deep theoretical insight into singular solutions and wave propagation with practical implementations of parallel and reduced-order algorithms, achieving multi-fold speedups in large-scale solvers. Based in Boston, he brings a rare blend of research rigor and applied software engineering that turns advanced computational methods into robust, scalable analytics systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Applied Mathematics, 5.0/5.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Applied Mathematics, 5.0/5.0 at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, President's list, Bachelor's Degree, Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, President's list at Pusan National UniversityMaster's Degree, Ocean Systems Engineering, 4.21/4.3, Master's Degree, Ocean Systems Engineering, 4.21/4.3 at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (50)
markov9
multiphysics8
latex8
sampling8
inverse8
computational-science8
markov-chain8
filetype7
updating7
tex7
inverse-problems7
mason7
bayesian7
monte-carlo7
neovim6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ktkimit/lamb_2dhalf_surface
Sep 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes in 2 years
ktkimit/myconfig
Sep 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:148 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 5 months
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