Youngwoo Kim
Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolYoungwoo Kim is a Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics with nine years of experience in semiconductor process integration and optoelectronic device development, grounded in a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He combines deep FEA and DOE expertise with hands-on semiconductor fabrication know-how, having led research roles at HANA Optronics and Hana Micron. Based in Seoul, he bridges rigorous academic training and industry R&D, delivering pragmatic solutions for high-volume manufacturing challenges. Outside core device work, he applies data-science practices—demonstrated by an R repository focused on real-world data wrangling and exploratory analysis—bringing quantitative insight to process optimization.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Sogang UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan
Korean, English
Github Skills (7)
data-wrangling10
dplyr10
exploratory-data-analysis10
ggplot10
eda10
r10
data-analysis10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
youngwoos/Doit_Python
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:61 commits, 83 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
youngwoos/etc
Apr 2018 - Jan 2021
etc
Contributions:90 commits, 8 PRs, 86 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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