Heejin Kim is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Graduate School of Data Science (GSDS) at Seoul National University and a member of the team of international researchers leading an assessment process for Trustworthy AI, called Z-Inspection®. She also serves as a Senior Associate Editor for the Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press). Prior to joining GSDS, she worked as a Cyber Security CRC Fellow (Lecturer-level) at the UNSW School of Law in Sydney, teaching and researching in the area of cyber security and international law (2019–2021); and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law and the ASEAN Cluster of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore (2015–2019). She has taught at the Underwood International College of Yonsei University and Chungnam National University Law School; and provided research consultancy for the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of Korea.

She holds LL.M and J.S.D (Doctor of the Science of Law) from Yale Law School. She is a recipient of multiple academic awards including the Korean Government Scholarship for Overseas Doctoral Studies (Ministry of Education); Lilian Goldman Scholarship and the Howard M. Holtzmann Fellowship in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution (Yale). For her first law degree, she studied at Sookmyung Women’s University.

Her research and teaching interests broadly include AI ethics and human rights; global data governance and digital trade.