Katherine A. Kim received the B.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA, in 2007. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. She has been an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, South Korea, since 2014. Her research interests are power electronics, modeling, and control for photovoltaic and renewable energy systems. Dr. Kim received the National Science Foundation's East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellowship in 2010 and Graduate Research Fellowship in 2011. She served as the Chair of the IEEE Power and Energy Society/Power Electronics Society (PELS) Joint Student Chapter at the University of Illinois in 2010-2011 and Co-Director of the IEEE Power and Energy Conference at Illinois in 2012. She served as the IEEE PELS Student Membership Chair in 2013-2014 and is an IEEE PELS Member-At-Large for 2016-2018.
