Sung Min Kim is a PhD student in Civil Engineering with an emphasis on Civil Systems and a GAANN fellow for revitalizing U.S. infrastructure at CU Boulder. She graduated with the Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University in May 2019. She has had the opportunity to design water treatment plants, work on reservoir modeling through a collaborative NOAA research proposal on the Upper Colorado River Basin, and analyze NCAR’s Community Earth System Model 1 North American Monsoon simulation biases. Currently, she is doing power system optimization and energy market research.