Brian J. Kim

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1218S LeFrak Hall

7251 Preinkert Dr.

College Park, MD 20742

I am the undergraduate Co-Director of the Social Data Science major in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Director of Graduate Studies for the Survey and Data Science Master’s and Ph.D. program in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology, and an Associate Research Professor at University of Maryland, College Park. I teach a variety of courses in data science, machine learning, statistics, and programming at the undergraduate and graduate levels using both Python and R.

You can see some of my pedagogical projects on the Projects page. These have largely been supported by various grants from NSF and University of Maryland. You can see more about my teaching and research grants in the Grants section of my CV. Some examples of teaching material are provided in the GitHub Repositories page.

My research is focused on social network analysis, network sampling methods (particularly respondent-driven sampling), population size estimation, data science education, and social science applications of machine learning. You can see the Publications page for a list of my journal articles.

selected publications

  1. RDS
    Population size estimation using multiple respondent-driven sampling surveys
    Brian J Kim and Mark S Handcock
    Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, 2021
  2. Education
    Easy-to-use cloud computing for teaching data science
    Brian Kim and Graham Henke
    Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2021