Jin Sik Kim @ The Gary, W. Rollins College of Business
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Jin Sik Kim is currently an Assistant Professor in Data Analytics at the Gary W. Rollins College of Business, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). His academic path brought him to UTC after completing his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems (MIS) at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California - Irvine. In addition, he holds a master’s degree from the Maxwell School of Economics at Syracuse University and an MPIA (Master of Pacific International Affairs) from the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California – San Diego.
Dr. Kim's research focuses on understanding the economic implications of digital technologies and the complex processes of value creation. His work explores how businesses can harness emerging technologies—such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and big data—to drive value, using economic principles to guide this analysis.
His research centers on four key areas:
(1) The transformative effects of emerging information systems, such as Generative AI, on various industries,
(2) The evolution of human roles and workspaces as they adapt to new technologies like AI and Augmented Human-AI systems,
(3) The ethical challenges associated with the growing use of AI and ML, &
(4) How the roles and interactions of producers, consumers, and platforms are shifting with the rise of novel technological paradigms.
He has served as a session chair and mini-track chair at various major IS conferences such as INFORMS, AMCIS, and HICSS, and in 2023, he received the ISS Best Cluster Session Award at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023.
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Motto: Audere est Facere
What Students Are Saying about Me
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Jin Sik does a great job in showing passion and enthusiasm on the subject. He is a great professor to have as he shows great character within the classroom. He utilizes great methods in teaching the class and is available to help out any student when he or she needs it.
Jin Sik is a fun teacher to have and it nice to see a professor have this much passion in teaching and for the students.
I find the concepts and topics he covered in the class very, very interesting. It feels a lot more applicable to the real-world than some of the other business classes I've taken that cover far too many theoretical concepts that are simply just not practical. I am not sure how long he has been teaching, but I think he has a lot of potential to grow as a professor. He cares a lot about his students and wants us to succeed. This has been an awesome class for me.
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— Undergraduate Students, Class of 2019.
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Great methodology of explaining topics that would be difficult to understand, Extremely patient when teaching new and difficult material, & Good overall teaching style.
He is very enthusiastic about the subject and really cares about the students learning and experience! Prof. Kim provides a wealth of additional concepts to extend the ideas that are available in the text. Also, he could provide Integrating real-world skills and technical knowledge to the course.
In Sum, lectures are informative, practice in class is effective, and enthusiasm and energy make the class fun
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— Undergraduate Students, Class of 2019.
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Fantastic resource, learned more from Jin Sik about machine learning than an entire class on Python or any other class in the program.
Jin Sik is a very down-to-earth guy and has a bundle of energy and patience. His sessions on Web mining and using R/ R-studio were very useful.
He is very talented and enjoys teaching his students.
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— Executive MBA Students, Class of 2020.
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A++ Jin Sik shared some valuable feedback to improve the quality of the final project and shared his way of doing the way which was very impressive. His inputs really helped us to concentrate on critical topics.
Absolutely. Best one I've ever had!
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— Fully-Employed MBA Students Class of 2019.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Fully-Employed MBA Class of 2016, UC Irvine.
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Full-time MBA Class of 2017, UC Irvine.