She received a B.S. from the Korean Advanced Institute in Science & Technology in 1991, and a PhD from Yale in 1997, under the direction of NAS member Roger Howe. She had postdoctoral appointments at the École Normale Supérieure and the Institute for Advanced Study before joining the University of Michigan as assistant professor in 1998. In 2002, she moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Kim’s research interests include representation theory, harmonic analysis of p-adic groups, Lie theory, and automorphic forms.