Ki Joon Kim is Associate Professor of New Media and Human–Technology Interaction, Director of the B.A. Program in Digital Television and Broadcasting, and Founding Director of the Interaction Studies Lab in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. He is also Associate Editor of Behaviour & Information Technology, a highly regarded journal for the study of the social, behavioral, and psychological impact of human interactions with information and communications technology. Kim holds a doctoral degree in Human–Computer Interaction (under the supervision of Chair Professors S. Shyam Sundar at Penn State and Frank A. Biocca at Syracuse) from Sungkyunkwan University and bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Film & Media Studies (under the guidance of Professor Larry L. Jacoby) from Washington University in St. Louis.

Kim primarily investigates the psychological antecedents and consequences of humantechnology interaction by examining how humans respond to various affordances present in digital media. Specifically, he explores the process by which these affordances influence the behavioral and psychological outcomes of technology-mediated communication. Kim also develops theoretical paradigms in which human interactions with the latest pervasive technology, such as the Internet of Things, wearable devices, and autonomous vehicles, are perceived as socially meaningful and persuasive.

Kim has received a total of USD 333,000 in research grants as the sole principal investigator and authored over 100 peer-reviewed research articles, including single- and first-authored publications in top-tier journals such as the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Human Communication Research, New Media & Society, and the Journal of Business Research. His works have been cited over 5,200 times and featured in major international news outlets, including TIME, NBC News, Fox News, and the Guardian, as well as in local media in more than 15 countries.

Kim is the Department's first and only faculty member ever awarded early promotion with tenure. He is also the Department's first and only recipient of the Outstanding Research Award (the highest accolade of research excellence at the University), New Researcher Award, Teaching Development Grant, and Teaching Start-up Grant recognizing his world-class research and innovative teaching initiatives. According to the standardized citation metrics developed by a Stanford research team based on the Scopus database, Kim is the world’s top 0.5% and Asia’s number one most cited researcher in the field of human factors and also the most cited faculty member in the Department.

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