Dohun KimDohun Kim

Portfolio

A fuller picture of what I've been up to — across research, robotics, math, code, music, and athletics. Anything with a deeper story behind it opens into its own page.

C/C++JavaScript/TypeScriptPythonJavaEnglish (Fluent)Korean (Fluent)Spanish (Intermediate)ReactNext.jsOnshape (CAD)

Research & Academic

Published math research through MIT PRIMES STEP.

MIT PRIMES STEP — Senior Group

2024–2025

Math researcher

A year of mentored math research in the Senior Group that produced two papers posted to arXiv.

Mathematics of Gozinta Boxes

2025

Co-author

Published combinatorics research, posted to arXiv.

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Chip-Firing in Infinite k-ary Trees

2025

Co-author

Published research on chip-firing dynamics, in Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications (ECA).

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Robotics

FTC co-captain, CAD lead, and program mentor.

Weston Robotics — Planning Council & Program-Wide MentorPlanning Council & Program-Wide Mentor · 2026–present

FTC #22489 — Galactic Narwhal Chicken Effect (Diamond, Weston)

2024–2026

Co-Captain (2025–2026); team member (2024–2025)

Co-captain of a competitive FIRST Tech Challenge team — leading design, strategy, and the team's run to the World Championship.

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Multinational Tech InvitationalInvited · 2026
Advanced to the Michiana Premier Event2026
Volunteer FLL Mentor — "Butterfly Effect" & "LegoImpossible"Volunteer mentor · 2024–2026

DECODE — Clutch PTO Lift & Drivetrain

2025–2026

Drivetrain + clutch power-take-off (PTO) lift

Designed the drivetrain and a clutch power-take-off (PTO) lift system for the 2025–2026 DECODE season.

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FTC World Championship — Motivate Award, 2nd

2025

Earned 2nd place for the Motivate Award at the FIRST Tech Challenge World Championship.

Maryland Tech Invitational — Hardware Mastery Honorable MentionInvited; reached playoffs (top 16) · 2025

Into the Deep — Open-Source Claw CAD

2024–2025

Claw CAD / mechanical design

Open-source claw mechanism CAD for the 2024–2025 Into the Deep season, modeled in Onshape and released publicly.

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Mathematics

AMC/AIME, olympiads, and team competitions.

F=ma 2026 — 15/252026
AIME II 2025 — 9/152025
AMC 10A 2024 — 141/1502024
MAML Olympiad Level 1 — 2nd in Massachusetts (24/25)2024
IMLEM (Weston MS) — #1 individual, perfect scores across all 5 meets2022–2023
AMC 12B / 10A 2023 — 102/150 & 117.5/150 (both advanced to AIME)2023

Competitive Programming

USACO Gold, Codeforces, and informatics olympiads.

Codeforces — rating 1737

2024–present

genius0412

Active competitive programmer; peak rating 1737.

USACO 2026 — advanced to Gold (900/1000)2026
USACO.guide Informatics Tournament 2024 — 8th, solo2024
MITIT Winter 2023 — 2nd, Beginner Division (team)2023
Korean Olympiad in Informatics — Silver (National 2021; Regional 2021 & 2022)2021–2022
National Software Thinking Olympiad — Bronze (2019); USACO Silver, perfect 1000 (2019)2019

Software

Web tools, open-source contributions, and apps.

Empower Initiative

2024–present

Website Coordinator

Coordinate and build the web presence for the Empower Initiative.

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A11y Checker — Congressional App Challenge, 2nd place

2024

An accessibility checker that placed 2nd in the Congressional App Challenge (Office of Rep. Katherine Clark).

FTCDesign

Major Contributor

Major contributor to FTCDesign, a resource for the FTC robotics community.

Configlib

Major Contributor

Major contributor to Configlib.

SolversLib

Docs Contributor

Contributor to the documentation for SolversLib, an FTC robotics programming library.

Voya

A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure study game for students, built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS. Created as a final project for AP Physics C.

Music

A cappella soloist and choir singer.

Weston Town Criers (a cappella) — soloist on "500 Miles"

2025–2026

Soloist

Member of the Town Criers a cappella group; soloist on "500 Miles."

Concert Choir & Jazz Choir — Weston High School
MMEA Districts — Junior 7th (tenor) & 8th (bass); Senior 9th & 10th (bass)

Athletics

High school tennis.

Weston High School Tennis

Education

Coursework and academic background.

Weston High School

2024–present
GPA 4.0 (unweighted)

AP coursework & exam results:

AP Physics C: Mechanics & E&M — AAP Calculus BC — 5AP Computer Science A — 5AP Statistics — AAP World History — A

Hanyang University — Gifted & Talented Center for Informatics, Seoul

2020–2021

Advanced Course in Informatics

Graduated #1 of 951-on-1 AI course

Youngest in the cohort, selected to study under Prof. Ki Hyuk Sung.