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About Henry M. Kim
As one of the leading blockchain scholars in Canada, Prof. Kim is engaged in blockchain research projects with the UN (on cross-border), Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (on electricity micro-grid), the Canadian blockchain startup Nuco Networks (on AI-based consensus mechanism), Ontario Ministry of Agriculture (on food traceability), and National Institute of Standards and Technology in the US (on manufacturing supply chain). He is on the faculty of Don Tapscott’s Blockchain Research Institute, is co-organizer of U of T’s Fields Institute Seminar Series on Blockchain, and an advisor on the Government of Canada’s whitepaper on Blockchain and Digital Ledger Technologies. He is a scientific advisor on several Canadian blockchain startups that are in the Financial Services and Mining and Natural Resources industries.
Recent Publications
Kim, Henry M. and Marek Laskowski (2018). “Towards an Ontology-Driven Blockchain Design for Supply Chain Provenance”, Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance, and Management, Vol. 25, Issue 1, pg. 18-27.
Kim, Henry M., Bita Chiasi, Max Spear, Marek Laskowski, and Jiye Li (2017). “Online Serendipity: The Case for Curated Recommender Systems”, Business Horizons, Vol. 60, Issue 5, pp. 613-20.
Kim, Henry M., Marek Laskowski, and Ning Nan (2018). “A First Step in the Co-Evolution of Blockchain and Ontologies: Towards Engineering an Ontology of Governance at the Blockchain Protocol Level”, Submitted to: Royal Society of Open Science.
Kim, Henry M. and Marek Laskowski (2017). “A Perspective on Blockchain Smart Contracts: Reducing Uncertainty and Complexity in Value Exchange,” Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Workshop on Privacy, Security, Trust & Blockchain Technologies, August 3, Vancouver, BC.
Mehar, Muhammad Izhar, Charlie Shier, Alana Giambattista, Elgar Gong, Gabrielle Fletcher, Marek Laskowski, and Henry M. Kim (2018). “Understanding a Revolutionary and Flawed Grand Experiment in Blockchain: Understanding the DAO Attack,” Accepted: Journal of Cases on Information Technology.
Karajovic, Maria, Henry M. Kim, Marek Laskowski (2018). “Thinking Outside the Block: Projected Phases of Blockchain Integration in the Accounting Industry,” Submitted to: Australian Accounting Review.
Courses Taught
Graduate:
Introduction to Leadership and Management Skills
Introduction to Information Systems
Advanced Topics in Information Systems
E-Business Strategy
Systems Analysis and Design
Undergraduate:
Information Systems Concepts and Models
Introduction to Information Systems
Database Management System
Systems Analysis and Design
Complexity Science and Data Science (Independent Studies)Grants
Project Title Role Award Amount Year Awarded Granting Agency Project TitleTrade and Competitiveness: Productivity, Innovation, and Product Differentiation RoleCollaborator Award Amount$151,600.00 Year Awarded2018-2019 Granting AgencyOntario Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs – Research Program Project TitleBlockchain Enabled Smart Microgrids RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$45,246.00 Year Awarded2018 Granting AgencyOntario Centre of Excellence Voucher for Innvovation and Productivity I (OCE VIP I) Project TitleApplying Deep Neural Networks for Blockchain Interoperability I RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$45,000.00 Year Awarded2018 Granting AgencyOntario Centre of Excellence Voucher for Innvovation and Productivity I (OCE VIP I) Project TitleApplying Deep Neural Networks for Blockchain Interoperability II RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$20,200.00 Year Awarded2018 Granting AgencyNational Research Council Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP) Project TitleFellowship for Research RoleRecipient Award Amount$12,500.00 Year Awarded2017-2018 Granting AgencySchulich School of Business Project TitleOntology-Based Reference Model for Financial Business Processes in Retail for Opterus RolePrincipal Investigator with Opterus Award Amount$52,234.00 Year Awarded2016-2017 Granting AgencyNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada – Engage Grant Project TitleDeveloping a Social and Trust-Based Book Recommender System for Indigo RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$52,900.00 Year Awarded2015-2016 Granting AgencyNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada – Engage Grant Project TitleEnabling Data Management for Big Data Business Analytics for Sphere3D using Context-Aware Ontologies RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$52,800.00 Year Awarded2015-2016 Granting AgencyNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada – Engage Grant Project TitleOntology formalizations of Marketing Principles and Smart Contracts with FinTech Applications RoleCo-Applicant Award Amount$9,000.00 Year Awarded2015-2016 Granting AgencyNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada – Undergraduate Student Research Award Project TitleLeveraging Supply Chain Automation Expertise to Develop Supply Chain Analytics Capabilities RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$53,100.00 Year Awarded2014-2015 Granting AgencyNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada – Engage Grant Project TitleApplications of a Computational Ontology for Distance for the Semantic Web RoleCo-Applicant Award Amount$4,500.00 Year Awarded2012 Granting AgencyNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - Undergraduate Student Research Award Project TitleUsing ontologies and social network analysis for web 2.0 enabled knowledge sharing RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$95,000.00 Year Awarded2009-2015 Granting AgencyNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - Discovery Grant Project TitleCorporate Social Computing RoleCo-Applicant Award Amount$43,432.00 Year Awarded2008-2010 Granting AgencyIBM - PhD Fellowship Award Project TitleIT Productivity and other Research Issues in Service RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$20,150.00 Year Awarded2007 Granting AgencyIBM Project TitleEnabling Knowledge Sharing over the Semantic Web using Ontologies and Network Analysis RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$53,925.00 Year Awarded2004-2008 Granting AgencyNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council - Discovery Grant Project Title Role Award Amount$53,000.00 Year Awarded2000-2008 Granting AgencySchulich School of Business – Various Faculty Research Awards Project TitleEnabling Integrated Decision Making: Business Process and Data Driven Information Integration using Ontology-Based Enterprise Models RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$53,925.00 Year Awarded2000-2004 Granting AgencyNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada – Discovery Grant
Henry M. Kim
Associate Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems; Co-Director, BlockchainLab
PhD (Toronto)MEng (Michigan)
BASc (Toronto)