Kihwan Kim
Corporate Executive Vice President
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKihwan Kim is a corporate executive and veteran computer vision researcher with 11+ years building flagship mobile and XR systems, currently serving as EVP leading HW/SW for Samsung’s XR/AR glasses and AndroidXR. He blends deep academic roots in 3D vision and SLAM—shaped by a PhD from Georgia Tech and leadership of NVIDIA’s NVSLAM—with product-scale delivery of on-device AI, neural rendering, and avatar technologies across Galaxy phones, tablets, watches and TVs. His portfolio spans camera pipelines, multi-sensor fusion, graphics/GPU optimization, and real-time rendering, with hands-on experience shipping DL imaging features and OpenXR/Unity SDKs for commercial ecosystems. Notably, he has driven tech transfer from cutting-edge research into SDKs for robotics, autonomous driving, and consumer AR, and maintains a public research footprint via publications and a comprehensive CV and homepage. Based in the Bay Area, he combines strategic product leadership with low-level graphics and deep learning craftsmanship, including personal projects in OpenGL/GLSL and game physics engines.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D Computer Science, Ph.D Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Yonsei University
Korean, English, Japanese
Github Skills (54)
debugging10
water10
direct3d10
graphics-programming10
opengl10
directx10
scenarios9
vulkan9
transition9
renderdoc9
animated8
threejs7
webgl7
javascript7
chrome6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
artrointel/RPEngine
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:66 commits, 64 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
artrointel/EveryonesComplication
Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
Custom Complication of Android Watch Face for Everyone.
Contributions:30 commits, 11 PRs, 29 pushes in 4 months
androidandroid-appandroid-developmentandroid-applicationface
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