Jae-Kwang Kim (Korean: 김재광; born 16 September 1968) is a South Korean statistician.
Kim earned a Bachelor's of Science from Seoul National University in 1990, followed by a Master's of Science in 1993.[1] He then completed a doctorate at Iowa State University in 2000, supervised by Wayne Fuller.[1][2] Kim returned to South Korea, teaching at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies between 2002 and 2003, and Yonsei University between 2004 and 2008, before rejoining Iowa State as a faculty member.[1] From 2016 to 2018, Kim also taught at KAIST.[1][2] In 2021, Kim was elected president-elect of the Korean International Statistical Society.[3][4] He is also a senior fellow of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences.[5]
Kim is a 2012 fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6] The Institute of Mathematical Statistics elected him to an equivalent honor in 2020.[7][8]