Company: The University of Kansas School of Business
Title: Research Specialist
About: Midam Kim is a speech researcher and scientist with 20+ years of experience in research, teaching, and practice at the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and management. She is a Senior Speech Scientist at a startup company and a Research Specialist at the School of Business, University of Kansas. She earned a PhD in Linguistics and Cognitive Science from Northwestern University. Her goal is to help people from diverse backgrounds collaborate more easily and effectively through research and product development.Midam’s research interests generally lie in leadership, social/linguistic diversity and communication in organizations, and artificial intelligence. More specifically, she has been researching how to help leaders, followers, other stakeholders in business to communicate more efficiently and effectively under the influence of various social and linguistic diversities. With her linguistic expertise and understanding on business, Midam also works on developing next generation speech technology products that would help users to enjoy the state-of-the-art AI services with less language and cultural barriers.