Dr. Tae Kim Research Scientist II S2, CSPAR Contact 320 Sparkman DriveCramer Research HallRoom 2075Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.961.7005tae.kim@uah.edu Biography Dr. Kim specializes in data-driven simulations of the partially ionized space plasma using a massively parallel code on various national supercomputers, such as NASA Pleiades, TACC Stampede 2, NCSA Blue Waters, and SDSC Comet. He is currently PI on two research projects funded by NASA and Air Force to model the solar wind flow from the Sun to Earth's orbit using remote observations to improve the current capabilities of space weather prediction. Additionally, he is Administrative PI on an international project funded by the Space Telescope Science Institute. He frequently collaborates with observers (e.g., HST, Voyager, IBEX, and New Horizons) and the PSP/SWEAP science team to provide modeling support throughout and beyond the heliosphere. He has engaged in educational outreach through the Heliophysics REU program at UAH/MSFC, either as a program coordinator or as a mentor. Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., The University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2014 M.S., The University of Memphis, 2004 B.S., The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2000 Research Funding NASA H-SR:"Investigation the Solar Wind Dynamics, Interstellar Pickup Ions, and Turbulence throughout Interplanetary Space Based on 3D Time-dependent Modeling and Multiple Spacecraft Observations\ (PI: 2020-2023) - $748,231 NASA OHGI: "Identifying the Origin of Energetic Neutral Atoms Measured by IBEX along the Voyager Directions" (Co-I: 2020-2023) - $412,369 DOD AFOSR YIP: "MHD Heliosphere with Enhanced Background Solar Wind and Coronal Mass Ejections" (PI: 2018 - 2021) - $448,576 NASA H-SWO2R: "A Higher-accuracy Model of the Heliosphere with Improved Background Solar Wind and Coronal Mass Ejections" (PI: 2018 - 2020) - $249,745 STScI HST-GO: "Hunting the Successive Auroral Response of Uranus and Neptune to Unexpected Powerful Heliospheric Disturbances" (Admin. PI: 2018 - 2021) - $25,514 Recent Publications Kim, T. K., Pogorelov, N. V., Arge, C. N., Henney, C. J., Jones-Mecholsky, S. I., Smith, W. P., Bale, S. D., Bonnell, J. W., Dudok de Wit, T., Goetz, K., Harvey, P. R., MacDowall, R. J., Malaspina, D. M., Pulupa, M., Kasper, J. C., Korreck, K. E., Stevens, M., Case, A. W., Whittlesey, P., Livi, R., Larson, D. E., Klein, K. G., and Zank, G. P. (2020), Predicting the Solar Wind at Parker Solar Probe Using an Empirically Driven MHD Model, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 246, 40, doi:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ab58c9 Singh, T., Kim, T. K., Pogorelov, N. V., and Arge, C. N. (2020), Application of a Modified Spheromak Model to Simulations of Coronal Mass Ejection in the Inner Heliosphere, Space Weather, 18, e2019SW002405, doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2019SW002405 Zirnstein, E. J., Kim, T. K., Mostafavi, P., Heerikhuisen, J., McComas, D. J., and Pogorelov, N. V. (2020), Response of Pickup Ions in the Very Local Interstellar Medium to Solar Variations: Implications for the Evolution of the IBEX Ribbon and Interstellar Helium, The Astrophysical Journal, 891, 56, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab744b Szabo, A., Larson, D., Whittlesey, P., Stevens, M. L., Lavraud, B., Phan, T., Wallace, S., Jones-Mecholsky, S. I., Arge, C. N., Badman, S. T., Odstrcil, D., Pogorelov, N., Kim, T., Riley, P., Henney, C. J., Bale, S. D., Bonnell, J. W., Case, A. W., Dudok de Wit, T., Goetz, K., Harvey, P., Kasper, J. C., Korreck, K. E., Koval, A., Livi, R., MacDowall, R. J., Malaspina, D. M., and Pulupa, M. (2020), The Heliospheric Current Sheet in the Inner Heliosphere Observed by Parker Solar Probe, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 246, 47, doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab5dac Lamy, L., Prange, R., Tao, C., Kim, T., Badman, S., Zarka, P., Cecconi, B., Kurth, W., Pryor, W., Bunce, E., and Radioti, A. (2018), Saturn's northern aurorae at solstice from HST observations coordinated with Cassini's Grand Finale, Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 9353-9362, doi:10.1029/2018GL078211 Lamy, L., Berland, C., Andre, N., Prange, R., Fouchet, T., Encrenaz, T., Gendron, E., Haubois, X., Tao, C., and Kim, T. (2018), Analysis of HST, VLT, and Gemini Coordinated Observations of Uranus Late 2017: A Multi-spectral Search for Auroral Signatures, SF2A-2018: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 29, http://sf2a.eu/proceedings/2018/2018sf2a.conf..0029l.pdf Kim, T. K. Pogorelov, N. V., and Burlaga, L. F. (2017), Modeling Shocks Detected by Voyager 1 in the Local Interstellar Medium, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 843, L32, doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa7b2b Lamy, L., Prange, R., Hansen, K. C., Tao, C., Cowley, S. W. H., Stallard, T., Melin, H., Achilleos, N., Guio, P., Badman, S. V., Kim, T., and Pogorelov, N. (2017), The aurorae of Uranus past equinox, J. Geophys. Res. Space Physics, 122, 3997-4008, doi:10.1002/2017JA023918 Kim, T. K., Pogorelov, N. V., Zank, G. P., Elliott, H. A., and McComas, D. J. (2016), Modeling the Solar Wind at the Ulysses, Voyager, and New Horizons Spacecraft, Astrophysical Journal, 832, 72, doi:10.3847/0004-637X/832/1/72 Linker, J. A., Caplan, R. M., Downs, C., Lionello, R., Riley, P., Mikic, Z., Henney, C., Arge, C. N., Kim, T., and Pogorelov, N. (2016), An Empirically Driven Time-dependent Model of the Solar Wind, in Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM2015), Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 719, 012012, doi:10.1088/1742-6596/719/1/012012