Dr. Kim is a mathematical statistician at the Office of Biostatistics Research within National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Bethesda, Maryland.  She received PhD in Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2003. Before joining NIH in 2013, she held a faculty position at Virginia Tech.

Her research interests include fully sequential monitoring in clinical trials, change-point inference and  statistical genetics. Currently she is involved in large NHLBI-sponsored clinical trials and intramural projects in MRI imaging, pulmonary disease and cancer research. Dr. Kim has years of experience in collaborative research in other areas including mobile health, bioengineering, and environmental science. She is serving as the President of the Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS) and a board member for the Korean International Statistics Society (KISS).