Empowering Allies Pillar

Sung Eun (CJ) Kim, PhD

Committee Member, Nominate Women Initiative, Empowering Allies Pillar

Sung Eun (CJ) Kim is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Stanford University College of Medicine. Research during this Postdoctoral Scholar consists of golf swing biomechanics (inertial measurement unit and machine learning), cerebral palsy (3-dimensional motion analysis), and thumb osteoarthritis (MRI, etc). I completed my Ph.D. in Sports Science (biomechanics) from Yonsei University, one of the highest-ranked universities in Korea, in February 2018. After graduation, I started working for the Descente, a global sports brand that originated in Japan, the Shoes R&D Center. I was an athlete who played for the University of Florida Women’s Golf team and is a member of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA, Daytona Beach, FL) Class A professionals.