Kukhee Kim
Engineering Physicist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolKukhee Kim is an engineering physicist with 11+ years of experience designing and delivering control systems for large-scale accelerators and fusion experiments, currently at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He translates complex physics requirements into robust engineering solutions, leading hardware, FPGA firmware, and software teams to build EPICS-based, real-time distributed control architectures for projects like LCLS-I/LCLS-II, FACET, and KSTAR. His expertise spans low-level RF and timing/event systems, deterministic multi-threaded C/C++ and FPGA algorithm development for RF feedback and phase control, plus field commissioning and operational handover. Kukhee has led real-time network and state-machine design for superconducting tokamak control, demonstrating deep cross-discipline mastery of low-latency, high-bandwidth systems. Based in Menlo Park, he pairs a PhD in particle accelerator physics with practical system prototyping and production deployments, and is known for finding forward-looking technologies to future-proof accelerator controls.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Physics (Particle Accelerator), Master of Science (MS), Physics (Particle Accelerator) at POSTECH
Korean, English
Github Skills (6)
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ansible-collections7
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
slac-epics/hpsTprLab
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 tags in 2 days
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