Hyomin Kim

Associate Professor, Department of Physics
About Me
Dr. Hyomin Kim, Assistant Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), researches the impact of solar emissions, such as radiation and charged particles, on Earth’s geomagnetic environment and human technologies. His analysis of magnetic field waves, caused by the interaction of solar wind with space plasma particles, demonstrates how solar energy is transferred to Earth’s upper atmosphere. To that end, he serves as the Deputy Director of the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) Polar Engineering Development Center (PEDC), overseeing the development and operation of scientific instruments and on-site services at NJIT’s Antarctic stations for space research. He is currently in charge of instruments located at stations in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, including Canada, Greenland, Svalbard, and Antarctica. He is the Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on NASA and NSF-funded projects, totaling over $7M.
Education
Ph.D.; University of New Hampshire; Mechanical Engineering; 2010
M.S.; Dartmouth College; Engineering Physics; 2004
M.S.; Kyung Hee University; Astronomy And Space Sciences; 2001
B.S.; Kyung Hee University; Astronomy And Space Science; 1999
Website
https://sites.google.com/njit.edu/maglab
2026 Fall Courses
PHYS 490 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
PHYS 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
PHYS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
PHYS 311 - COOP WORK EXPERIENCE I
PHYS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
PHYS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
PHYS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
PHYS 491 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
PHYS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
PHYS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
Teaching Interests
Physics 1 and 2
Electromagnetism
Observational Astronomy
Advanced Physics Laboratory
Past Courses
PHYS 322: OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY
PHYS 450: ADVANCED PHYSICS LAB
PHYS 780: CURR TOPICS APPLIED PHYS
Research Interests
Magnetospheric physics
Space-borne and ground-based instrumentation
Journal Article
Michell Salzano, Hyomin Kim. 2022. "Modeling the effects of drift shell splitting in two case studies of simultaneous observations of substorm-driven Pi1B and IPDP-type EMIC waves." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, vol. 127.
Sung Noh, Hyomin Kim. 2022. "Statistical study of EMIC wave propagation using space-ground conjugate observations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, vol. 127.
Hyomin Kim, Q. Schiller, M. Engebretson, N. Noh, I. Kuzichev, Louis J Lanzerotti, Andrew J. Gerrard, K.-H. Kim, M. Lessard, H. Spence, D.-Y. Lee, J. Matzka, T. Fromm. 2021. "Observations of Particle Loss due to Injection-Associated EMIC Waves." Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, vol. 125.
Matthew Cooper, Andrew J. Gerrard, Louis J Lanzerotti, A. Soto-Chavez, Hyomin Kim, I. Kuzichev, Lindsay V Goodwin. 2020. "Mirror instabilities in the inner magnetosphere and their potential for localized ULF wave generation." Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, vol. 125.
Gelu M. Nita, Manolis Georgoulis, Irina Kitiashvili, Viacheslav Sadykov, Enrico Camporeale, Alexand er Kosovichev, Haimin Wang, Vincent Oria, Jason T. Wang, Rafal Angryk, Berkay Aydin, Azim Ahmadzadeh, Xiaoli Bai, Timothy Bastian, Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi, Bin Chen, Alisdair Davey, Sheldon Fereira, Gregory David Fleishman, Dale E. Gary, Andrew J. Gerrard, Gregory Hellbourg, Katherine Herbert, Jack Ireland, Egor Illarionov, Natsuha Kuroda, Qin Li, Chang Liu, Yuexin Liu, Hyomin Kim, Dustin Kempton, Ruizhe Ma, Petrus Martens, Ryan McGranaghan, Edward Semones, John Stefan, Andrey Stejko, Yaireska Collado-Vega, Meiqi Wang, Yan Xu, Sijie Yu. 2020. "Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather Forecasting: A White Paper of Findings and Recommendations." arXiv e-prints, pp. arXiv:2006.12224.
Hyuck-Jin Kwon, Khan-Hyuk Kim, Geonhwa Jee, Ho Jin, Hyomin Kim, Jehyuck Shin, Seungah Lee, Jong-Woo Kwon, Jeong-Han Kim, Changsup Lee, Marc Lessard. 2019. "Characteristics of Pc5 activity at high latitudes stations in Antarctica." Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, vol. 193, pp. 105087.