Dr. Kim’s primary research interests are in the area of revenue management, advertising, game theory and online decision making. In online advertising, he has studied various characteristics of campaign budget management strategies and analyzed the performance of advertisement contracts. He has also researched informationally robust mechanisms and vehicle routing problems related to ride and delivery services. Dr. Kim has published his works in leading academic journals such as “Operations Research” (3 papers) and “Games and Economic Behavior” (2 papers).

From the 2022-23 academic year to the 2025-26 academic year, he taught Business Analytics, Statistics for Data Science, and Sustainable Supply Chain Management.

Prior to joining SKK Graduate School of Business, he was a full-time applied scientist at Amazon (New York office), working on Sponsored Products ads. After completing his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University, he was a postdoctoral research scholar in the Decision, Risk, and Operations (DRO) Division of Columbia Business School, Columbia University. Before pursuing his Ph.D., he worked as a full-time software engineer at Oracle Corporation. He received a Master of Engineering degree (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) and two Bachelor of Science degrees (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Mathematics) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.