Dr. Kim is currently an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at School of Business, Indiana University Kokomo. She earned Ph.D. degree in Management (with MIS concentration) from Krannert School of Management, Purdue University in 2006. She holds both masters and bachelors degrees in chemical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

Dr. Kim's research interests cover a variety of topics in MIS. Foremost among them is her investigation of online service markets and their implications to IT human capital management, from a yield management perspective. Additionally, she has studied vendor selection mechanisms in online service marketplaces. This, along with research focusing on the issue of pricing and innovation decisions concerning consecutive versions of IT-intensive products, comprises the scope of her research. She also possesses a strong background in numerous research methodologies including Operations Research, Economics modeling, and empirical analysis.

        Professor Kim has taught undergraduate and MBA level courses such as Introduction to MIS, E-commerce Infrastructure, Advanced Topics in Management Information Systems and The Computer in Business at Indiana University Kokomo and Purdue University for several semesters. She is especially enthusiastic about teaching in such areas as: IS principles, e-commerce, systems analysis and design, telecommunications, database management, and information security.

    Prior to joining the Purdue PhD program, she worked as a Software Engineer at Samsung SDS systems and a visiting scholar at  Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany.