Research Software Engineer

Taegon Kim is a postdoctoral associate with NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in rural systems engineering and his B.S. in agricultural civil engineering from Seoul National University in South Korea.

He is now developing simulation models and web-based interactive tools for agricultural supply chain decision-makers at IonE. He is particularly interested in developing a simulation platform that will allow researchers to easily build, test, evaluate, and visualize models related to agricultural and environmental research.

Experiences

Postdoctoral Associate

2014 - Present
Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota

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Senior Researcher

2014
Institute of Green Bio Science and Technology, Seoul National University

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Research Associate

2007 - 2014
Seoul National University, Seoul

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Research Assistant

2002 - 2007
Seoul National University, Seoul

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Projects

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FoodS3 - Food Systems Supply-chain Sustainability tool (FoodS3) for researcher
FoodS3.org - Landing page as single-page application for FoodS3 project
Korean Daily Weather API - This page is demo page for Korean Daily Weather RESTful API. Taegon Kim et al. (2014), Development of RESTful Web Service for Loading Data focusing on Daily Meteorological Data, Journal of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers 56(6): 93-102. (in Korean)
GHG reports for cities - Community-wide GHG emission inventory site using Django and d3.js

Publications

Dr. Kim has considerable experience working on multi-disciplinary research teams with modeling and simulation studies such as food supply chain in US, numerical structure analysis, indicating agricultural drought, estimating water footprints, detecting community structures, and calculating circuity factors in Korea. He has published 63 peer-reviewed articles based on these studies.

Subnational mobility and consumption-based environmental accounting of US corn in animal protein and ethanol supply chains
Timothy M. Smith, Andrew L. Goodkind, Taegon Kim, Rylie E. O. Pelton, Kyo Suh, and Jennifer Schmitt
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 2017
Numerical Solution of Second Order Linear Partial Differential Equations using Agricultural Systems Application Platform
SungYong Lee, Taegon Kim, Kyo Suh, Yicheol Han, Jemyung Lee, Hojae Yi, and JeongJae Lee
Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers, 2016
Development of RESTful Web Service for Loading Data focusing on Daily Meteorological Data
Taegon Kim, JeongJae Lee, Won-Ho Nam, and Kyo Suh
Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers, 2014
Environmental and Economic Implications of Bioethanol Blending for the Renewable Fuel Standard in South Korea
Taegon Kim, Jimin Lee, SungYong Lee, and Kyo Suh
Transactions of the ASABE, 2014

Skills & Proficiency

Python

Java

Front-end with D3.js

Back-end (PHP/Django/MySQL)

Working with legacy code (c, fortran, VB, exe)