Hyoshin Kim

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Business and Technology Management at the School of Business, KAIST. My research interests lie in social science and policy research using econometric methods, as well as the application of AI to economic, social, and policy research.

Publications

Minimally supervised learning on sub-meter satellite imagery reveals slum expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic

with Jeasurk Yang, Sungwon Park, Sumin Lee, Jungwon Kim, Jihee Kim, and Meeyoung Cha

Communications Sustainability 1, Article 52, 2026.

Tracking Economic Disparities in North Korea: Satellite Imagery Analysis Using AI with Policy Insights

with Sumin Lee, Donghyun Ahn, Donggyu Lee, Jungwon Kim, Hyeok Yun, Chaemin Jang, WoonChul Jung, Dongman Lee, Meeyoung Cha, and Jihee Kim

ACM GoodIT '25, pp. 155–163, 2025.

Working Papers

How Information about Generative AI Shapes Workers' Expectations: Evidence from a Survey Experiment

with Jihee Kim

Presentations

Upcoming American Economic Association (AEA) Poster Session, 2027 Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting , Washington, DC, January 2027
2026 Korean Economic Review (KER) International Conference, Jeju, South Korea, June 2026
2026 Spring BTM Workshop, KAIST, February 2026 — Outstanding Presentation Award
2025 BTM & ITM & GDI BK Research Workshop, KAIST, February 2025

GeoReg: Weight-Constrained Few-Shot Regression for Socio-Economic Estimation using LLM

with Kyeongjin Ahn, Sungwon Han, Seungeon Lee, Donghyun Ahn, Jungwon Kim, Jihee Kim, Sangyoon Park, and Meeyoung Cha

Under Review, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Monitoring Urban Slums from the Sky: How Redevelopment Projects Shape the Spatial Pattern of Slum Settlements Across Four Cities

with Meeyoung Cha, Jihee Kim, and Jeasurk Yang

Presentations

The 19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association (UEA), Montreal, Canada, October 2025
2025 Summer School in Urban Economics, Urban Economics Association (UEA), Boston, MA, July 2025
BTM Brown Bag Seminar, KAIST, November 2024

Teaching

Financial Markets and Institutions

Kookmin University · Undergraduate · Lecturer · Fall 2026 · Taught in English

Business Mathematics

Kookmin University · Undergraduate · Lecturer · Spring 2026 · Taught in English

BTM408 Economics of Technology and Innovation

KAIST · Undergraduate · Teaching Assistant · Spring 2025, Spring 2023

BTM701 Advanced Econometrics

KAIST · Graduate · Teaching Assistant · Fall 2024, Fall 2023

Intermediate Macroeconomics

KAIST · BTM312 · Undergraduate · Teaching Assistant · Spring 2024

KAIST · ECN312 · Graduate · Teaching Assistant · Spring 2021

MSB200 Introduction to Business Management

KAIST · Undergraduate · Teaching Assistant · Fall 2022

MSB408 Economics of Technology

KAIST · Undergraduate · Teaching Assistant · Fall 2021

MSB215 Microeconomics

KAIST · Undergraduate · Tutor · Spring 2021

ES10004 Economic Data Analysis

University of Bath, England · Undergraduate · Teaching Assistant · Spring 2017

ES10091 Introduction to Probability and Statistics

University of Bath, England · Undergraduate · Teaching Assistant · Fall 2016

Education

Ph.D. in Business and Technology Management, KAIST, Mar 2021–Present

Dissertation: Social and Policy Implications of AI
Supervisor: Prof. Jihee Kim
Research Group: Economic Progress and AI Research Group (Econ-AI)

MSc in Economics and Finance, Durham University, 2013

B.A. in Economics (Minor in Mathematics), The University of Texas at Austin, 2009

Hyoshin Kim with Prof. Chad Jones and Prof. Jihee Kim at the 2026 KER International Conference — Me (left), Prof. Chad Jones (center), Prof. Jihee Kim (right) @ the 2026 Korean Economic Review (KER) International Conference, Jeju, June 2026. Two scholars I deeply admire: my advisor, Prof. Jihee Kim, and her Ph.D. advisor, Prof. Jones — who kindly called me his “grandkid.”