Sojung Kim received his Ph.D. degree in Systems and Industrial Engineering from University of Arizona in 2015. He worked as an assistant professor at Texas A&M University-Commerce (2016–2020). In 2020, he moved to Dongguk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, where he is currently serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His research topics mainly include: process-based crop simulation modeling, agricultural systems optimization, bio-economic decision-support frameworks, and multi-agent simulation modeling.