Summary
Soomin Kim is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Artificial Intelligence, KIST, with eight years of experience bridging physics and computer science to advance computer vision and image processing. He earned B.S. degrees in physics and computer science from KAIST, then completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science at KAIST under Prof. Sung-eui Yoon, grounding his work in strong theoretical and experimental foundations. At KIST he has progressed from researcher to senior researcher, leading projects that translate academic vision research into applied AI solutions. His background in physics gives him a distinctive analytical lens for modeling visual phenomena and optimizing imaging systems. Based in Seoul, he combines deep academic training with hands-on research practice, often focusing on problems where signal-processing rigor meets modern deep learning.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics at 서울시립대학교
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Japanese, English