Jaehong Kim received a B.S. degree in Chemical Technology in 1995 from the Department of Chemical Technology (currently the School of Chemical Engineering) in Seoul National University in Korea. He received an M.S. degree in the same department in 1997. Before coming to the United States, he worked for 1 year at the Institute of Environmental Safety in Seoul National University as an assistant researcher. Then he obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. Dr. Kim joined Georgia Tech in October 2002 as an assistant professor of environmental engineering. His research interests are in the area of physicochemical processes in drinking water treatment such as chemical disinfection for pathogen inactivation, membrane filtration for removal of organic and inorganic contaminants, disinfection by-product formation control, reverse osmosis technology of sea water desalination, and application of emulsion-liquid membranes.

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