Kwang Soo Kim is a South Korean professor of chemistry, an adjunct professor in physics, and the director of Center for Superfunctional Materials (CSM),[1] of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea.

degree in physics from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (1975).

He spent a few years as an IBM Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Assistant Professor at Rutgers University.

Specifically, the fields of research that they contribute to include investigation of ab initio theory, molecular dynamics simulation, nonequilibrium thermodynamics and entanglement perturbation to provide understanding of intermolecular interactions, clusters, molecular recognition, drug design and nanomaterials.

Furthermore, his team is developing functional molecules/materials for molecular sensing and engineering, nanodevices, green chemistry, DNA sequencing and energy storage.