Michael Kern
Research Scientist Senior Software Development Engineer at AMD
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Kern is a research-driven software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently advancing ray tracing software and hardware solutions as a Research Scientist / Senior SDE at AMD in Munich. He combines deep academic training—a PhD and distinction-awarded master's in computer science from TUM—with practical expertise in visualization, uncertainty analysis, and numerical weather prediction from his doctoral and research work. His background includes cross-disciplinary stints at the University of Utah and TUM where he translated complex scientific data (e.g., ensemble weather forecasts and gene expression clusters) into coherent visualizations. At AMD he focuses on future graphics architecture, bridging algorithmic research and production-grade implementation for real-time rendering. Colleagues value his ability to navigate both low-level hardware-aware optimizations and high-level perceptual evaluation, making him a rare engineer who ties theoretical rigor to deployable graphics systems.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Technical University MunichDoctor of Science, Computer Science, Passed, Doctor of Science, Computer Science, Passed at Technical University of MunichAbitur (A-Level), Abitur (A-Level) at Christoph-Probst-Gymnasium Gilching
German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (8)
wavefront5
parser4
loader4
obj3
parsing2
stl2
3d-graphics2
cpp2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
K3rn1n4tor/stratomex_js
Jan 2016 - Aug 2020
Contributions:145 pushes, 25 branches, 30 comments in 4 years 7 months
provenance
K3rn1n4tor/gene_vis
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:41 pushes, 2 branches, 1 issue in 2 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.