Agnes Kim
Interim Director Of Academic Affairs at Penn State University
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAgnes Kim is an experienced academic leader and astrophysicist with over a decade of faculty experience and a research record of 29 publications in top journals. Currently serving as Interim Director of Academic Affairs and Professor of Physics at Penn State, she oversees curriculum, faculty mentoring, and student transitions on a campus undergoing planned shutdown, demonstrating crisis management and operational resilience. She has taught STEM to audiences from gifted high-school students to adult learners from under-represented communities, and runs hands-on programs like the Summer Science Program where she developed curriculum and Python tools for asteroid orbit calculations. Culturally versatile and skilled at connecting disparate groups, she has chaired faculty research governance and coordinated nearly 100 science faculty across programs. Outside academia she brings a maker’s mindset—sewing and creating educational YouTube content—reflecting a blend of technical rigor and creative communication.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Astrophysics, Ph.D., Astrophysics at The University of Texas at AustinM.S., Astrophysics, M.S., Astrophysics at Iowa State University
English, French, GermanProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
kim554/asteroseismic_fitting
Mar 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
kim554/wdec
Sep 2017 - Aug 2022
White Dwarf Evolution Code
Contributions:56 commits, 1 PR, 90 pushes in 5 years
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