Nam Wook Kim
Assistant Professor
Biography
Nam Wook Kim is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College. His research vision is to bring data within reach of broader audiences, enabling people to better understand, interact with, and communicate data. He investigates these challenges through the lens of data visualization and human-computer interaction, developing new methods and tools to innovate how we engage with data. His work has been recognized with awards from ACM CHI, ACM UIST, and the Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards, and is supported by the National Science Foundation. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University, where he was supported by the Kwanjeong Educational Foundation and the Siebel Scholars Foundation. During his doctoral studies, he interned at Microsoft Research, Disney Research, and Adobe Research. Prior to Harvard, he was a research associate at KAIST and worked as a research engineer at Samsung and LG. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Stony Brook University.