Taemin Kim
Staff Software Engineer at Magic Leap
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaemin Kim is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15 years of experience applying computer vision, robotics, and statistical learning to real-world systems from AR displays to planetary mapping. He has led calibration and sensor-fusion innovations at Magic Leap and Microsoft HoloLens—creating digital-twin validation pipelines, biphase display runtime calibration, and fast spiral feature search algorithms that improved engineering workflows without degrading user experience. His background spans NASA planetary imaging and rover navigation to model-based RL for legged robots, combining deep research rigor (PhD-level work) with production-grade software engineering. Taemin is known for pragmatic, cross-disciplinary solutions—e.g., blending robotic control data with AI-driven calibration—and for inventing practical estimation methods like least posterior entropy for model/data selection.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (ABD) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (ABD) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at 국립창원대학교(Changwon National University)Master's degree Biosystems Engineering, Master's degree Biosystems Engineering at Seoul National UniversityBachelor's degree Information Statistics, Bachelor's degree Information Statistics at Korea National Open UniversityDoctor of Philosophy Computational Science, Doctor of Philosophy Computational Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Korean, English
Github Skills (33)
cmake9
windows9
visual-studio9
swig9
package-manager9
c-library9
cpp9
macos8
linux8
git-hooks8
setuptools8
textbook7
libgit27
electrical-engineering7
cross-platform7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
luminans/luminans.github.io
Apr 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
luminans/docker.github.io
Mar 2019 - Mar 2019
Source repo for Docker's Documentation
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
docker
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