Curriculum Vitae

Minji Kim

Education

University of California-San Diego (UCSD)

• B.S., Electrical Engineering - Communications Theory

  • Advisor: Tara Javidi

• B.S., Mathematics (Honors with Distinction)

  • Advisor: David A. Meyer

• Minor, Music - Violin Performance

  • Teacher: János Négyesy

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

• M.S., Electrical Engineering

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

  • Advisors: Olgica Milenkovic, Jun S. Song

Teaching Experiences

• Teaching Assistant, UCSD ECE 101: Linear Systems Fundamentals (1/2012-3/2012)

• Teaching Assistant, UIUC ECE 398BD: Making Sense of Big Data (3/2014-4/2014)

• Voluntary Math and Computer Tutor, Urbana Adult Education Center (8/2015-5/2017)

• Instructor, UCSD ECE 109: Engineering Probability and Statistics (8/2017-9/2017)

• Certified Instructor, Software Carpentry (1/2019-)

• Co-Instructor (with Meng Wang), UM BIOINF 531: Probability and Applied Statistics for Bioinformatics (1/2025-5/2025)

Awards and Honors

• Engineering Honor Society Tau Beta Pi Member (2009-)

• Gordon Scholarship for Excellent Leadership (2011)

• UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Best Teaching Assistant Award (2012)

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (2014-2017)

• Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalist (2016)

• Rising Stars in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Invitation (2016)

• National Institutes of Health (NIH) K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (2021-2026)