Lawrence Kim
Research Assistant at Stanford University
Stanford, California United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLawrence Kim is a research-focused engineer based at Stanford with 11 years of experience blending robotics, embedded systems, and human–machine interaction. As a long-standing Research Assistant and former Facebook haptics intern, he bridges academic rigor and industry pragmatism—developing hardware, firmware, and wireless communication for swarm robotics projects like ShapeLab/SwarmUI. His contributions span 3D hardware modeling and low-level C++ work with RF modules, showing hands-on fluency from STL design to radio stacks. Trained at UIUC and Stanford (MS, PhD studies), he pairs deep technical specialization with teaching and mentorship experience across multiple Stanford courses. Less obvious: he navigates both physical prototyping and communication protocols, making him especially effective at turning lab concepts into functioning distributed robotic systems.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Illinois Mathematics and Science AcademyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Stanford University
English, Korean
Github Skills (5)
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
n10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ShapeLab/SwarmUI
Jul 2016 - Jul 2017
Necessary material to build and use Zooids to create Swarm User Interfaces
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 14 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Lawrence's commits primarily involve adding and modifying files related to hardware models and embedded software for a swarm robotics project. The changes include modifications to 3D models (STL files) used in the hardware design, as well as updates to C++ code within the `RF24.h` file, indicating interaction with a wireless communication module. These actions suggest the user is involved in both the physical construction and the communication aspects of the swarm robots.
interfacesswarmuser-interfaces
tennisbabo/tennisbabo.github.io
Oct 2018 - Feb 2025
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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