H. Alicia Kim is Jacobs Scholar Chair Professor, Structural Engineering Department,  University of California San Diego (UCSD). She leads the Multiscale Multiphysics Design Optimization (M2DO) Laboratory, which focuses on design and topology optimization for coupled problems. She currently serves as a Review Editor for the Journal Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and on the Editorial Boards for Springer Nature Applied Sciences and Multiscale Science and Engineering. She serves as the Secretary General on the Executive Committee of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and several AIAA committees including Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee and Complex Aerospace Systems Exchange. She received her Ph.D. and B.Eng. from the University of Sydney, Australia.

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