Jihan Kim

Biographical Sketch

As a postdoctoral fellow in NERSC's User Services Group, Jihan Kim will be helping scientists run their simulations on the center's supercomputers.

Kim began his new post at NERSC on August 17, 2009, after earning his doctorate degree in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For his dissertation, Kim wrote a quantum Monte Carlo code in C. He also worked on the device simulator Charon, during a summer internship at the Sandia National Laboratory.

Originally from South Korea, Kim and his family relocated to Los Angeles when he was in second grade. He migrated north to attend the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in electrical engineering. Kim says he instantly fell in love with the Northern California weather, diversity and scenery. In his spare time, he enjoys producing music and playing soccer.