Kyong Jin Shim

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of Minnesota (2004 — 2011)
• Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Louisiana State University

Teaching Topics

• Social & Contextual Analytics
• Data Warehousing & Business Analytics

Research Interests

• Social Computing
• Data Mining
• Games and Virtual Worlds
• Cloud Computing
• Data Engineering & Architecture

Companies

• Assistant Professor (Practice) SMU - Singapore Management University (2012)
• Researcher Virtual Worlds Observatory (2008)
• Director (R&D) / Academic Director Data Science Lab (DHL & SMU Collaboration) (2016 — 2018)
• Researcher Ninja Metrics (2011 — 2018)
• Principal Engineer & Technology Manager Ninja Metrics (2008 — 2011)
• Senior Software Engineer & Data Warehouse Lead Thomson Reuters (2007 — 2009)
• Software Engineer IBM (2006 — 2007)
• Software Engineer Co-op IBM (2005 — 2005)

Awards and Honors

• Innovative Teacher, Centre for Teaching Excellence, Singapore Management University, 2021
• NSF Student Travel Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2010
• Agnes Hansen Award, Sigma Delta Epsilon/Graduate Women in Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2005
• Research Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University ofMinnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2005
• Undergraduate Tuition Award, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA, Southern Illinois University, 2002
• High Honors Distinction Award, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA, Southern Illinois University, 2002
• Non-Resident Tuition Award, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, Louisiana State University, 2002
• Computer Science Alumni Scholarship, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA, Southern Illinois University, 2001
• Illinois State Scholar Finalist, the State of Illinois, Carbondale Community High School, Carbondale, Illinois, USA, Carbondale Community High School, 2000
• Global Housing/Ambassador and Forest Hall International Student Scholarship, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, USA, Southern Illinois University, 2000