He completed his Ph.D. in Politics at Princeton University. His research interests include International Political Economy, and Formal and Quantitative Methodology. Dr. Kim's research focuses on the political economy of firms' lobbying, trade policy-making, and design of international institutions. His dissertation examines firm's political incentives to lobby for trade liberalization, which won the 2015 Mancur Olson Award for the Best Dissertation in Political Economy. Dr. Kim conducts Big Data analysis of international trade. He is developing methods for dimension reduction and visualization to investigate how the structure of international trade around the globe has evolved over time. His work has appeared and forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, and Political Analysis.