Yushim Kim (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 2006) is an assistant professor
at the School of Public Affairs
at the Arizona State University (ASU) in Phoenix.
Kim is also a core faculty of the Center for Policy Informatics,
an affiliated faculty at the Decision Theater, and
the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at ASU.
Kim's research interests are public policy analysis and policy informatics. Kim is currently engaging in four lines of research:
(1) Informing policy debates using policy informatics, (2) Modeling complex policy systems using agent-based modeling,
(3) Data analysis, synthesis, and display for decision-making, and (4) Understanding complexity in public policy and management.
Kim has framed these conceptual questions in the context of public service delivery and public health/welfare policy.
Kim has utilized statistics, spatial analysis, and social simulation techniques for public policy and managerial issues.
Prior to her position in the ASU School of Public Affairs,
Kim worked as a researcher for the Ohio Women, Infants, and Children program
at the Ohio Department of Health for five years and a postdoctoral researcher
at the John Glenn School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University,
taking part in an evaluation research of welfare (TANF) demonstration projects in Ohio.
Kim picked five books she liked most:
Whitehead, A. N. (1938). Modes of Thought.
Bronowski, J. (1978). The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination.
Bateson, G. (2002). Mind and Nature.
Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. J. (1987). The Tree of Knowledge.
Watzlawick, P., Weakland, J. H., & Fisch, R. (1974). Change.
last updated: 1/13/2008
