He has more than 450 publications. His group has more than 70 patents and 26 commercial licenses have been signed. His research interests are in distributed diagnosis and home healthcare, multimedia algorithms and systems, and medical imaging.,Prof. Kim received the Early Career Achievement Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) in 1988, and the 2003 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering. He has been an Editorial Board Member of the Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, and IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. He was the president of the IEEE EMBS for 2005 and 2006.