Kimin Lee
Co-Founder And Chief Scientist at Config
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKimin Lee is a researcher-turned-founder with nine years of experience at the intersection of machine learning research and product-grade AI systems. He recently co-founded and serves as Chief Scientist at Config while maintaining an assistant professorship at KAIST, bridging academic rigor with startup execution. His background includes research scientist work at Google and a postdoc at Berkeley AI Research, and his doctoral training at KAIST focused on machine learning, grounded earlier in electrical engineering and wireless networks. Kimin frequently moves ideas from papers to prototypes, emphasizing reproducible research and practical deployment. He splits time between teaching, mentoring graduate research, and building ML-driven products—an uncommon mix that smooths the path from novel algorithms to real-world impact. For deeper technical details and projects he maintains a public homepage linking his publications and code.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Korean, English
Github Skills (38)
classifier10
ranking10
science10
react9
computer-science9
flags8
generalization7
pytorch7
machine-learning7
randomization6
logging6
deep-learning6
multiple-choice6
testing6
application5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pokaxpoka/sunrise
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 8 months
pokaxpoka/RoGNoisyLabel
Jan 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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