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In-Song Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and serves as the Faculty Director of the Jae S. Lim MIT-Korea Program. He completed his PhD in Politics at Princeton University. His research interests include International Political Economy and Formal Quantitative Methodology, with a focus on political economy, lobbying, campaign donations, estimation of political preferences, causal inference, and panel data analysis. His dissertation received the 2015 Mancur Olson Award, recognizing its significant contribution to the field. Additionally, an article derived from his research was honored with the 2018 Michael Wallerstein Award. Kim's work employs Big Data analysis techniques within the context of International Trade, developing innovative methods for dimension reduction and visualization to investigate the structural evolution of international trade over time. His studies have been accepted or published in prestigious academic journals, including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Political Analysis, and the Journal of Politics.