Seong-Hee Kim has been appointed the Coca-Cola Associate Professor in the H. Milton School of Industrial & Systems Engineering for a three year term effective July 1, 2014. Coca-Cola Early Career Professorships are designed to enhance the ability of ISyE to support outstanding ISyE junior faculty at the assistant and associate levels. 

Kim was selected because of her research on ranking and selection procedures for stochastic simulation, optimization via simulation, statistical output analysis, quality control, and applications of simulation methods to environmental management.  

Kim received an INFORMS Simulation Society Outstanding Simulation Publication Award in 2006 and an NSF Career Award in 2007 and The Harold W. Kuhn Award, 2013. She received a B.S. in Industrial Management from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences from Northwestern University.