Kim is a climate scientist and aspiring data scientist who currently works at NASA-CALTECH Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, U.S.A. in the Computer Science for Data Intensive Applications Group. As a climate scientist, she studies climate variability and climate change in the tropics where she stumbles on so many big data issues in her research that they pulled her out of the conventional science establishment to explore approaches to handle the data constraints. As an aspiring data scientist, she plays with various datasets and explores the open source software living at the Apache Software Foundation fun house.
