Subject: Opportunities for Research Assistant Positions with Dr. Kim
Graduate Research Assistant Position:
Application Link: https://forms.gle/FzYh78q73vjUKJtC8
You may also email your transcript and a cover letter to Dr. Kim at hnkim@ncat.edu. In your cover letter, please explain why you are an excellent candidate for this research role.
Undergraduate Research Assistant Position:
Application Link: https://forms.gle/A1DfY5TKiu8S741j8
You may also email your transcript and a cover letter to Dr. Kim at hnkim@ncat.edu. In your cover letter, please explain why you are an excellent candidate for this research role.
Hyung Nam Kim, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at NC A&T State University. He is a distinguished researcher, recognized as a 2024 ScholarGPS Top Scholar, an honor that places him in the top 0.5% of scholars globally based on research productivity, citation impact, and h-index. Specifically, he ranks #28 worldwide in the area of Visual Impairment research over the past five years, a ranking derived from a database of over 30 million scholars.
Dr. Kim's excellence has been acknowledged internally at NC A&T, where he received the 2018 Research Excellence Award, given to the top-performing tenure-track assistant professor. Furthermore, his research on activity tracking and perceived loneliness in people with visual disabilities has been selected as a finalist for the Best Paper Award in the Human Factors/Ergonomics Track at the upcoming IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2025.