Jisu Kim is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Auburn University. Her research
examines how firms build and sustain customer relationships as the technologies that
mediate them evolve, spanning loyalty programs, influencer and platform strategies,
and emerging technologies such as generative AI. Combining large-scale field data
with experimental and qualitative methods, she studies how these shifts reshape relationships
between buyers and sellers.
Her work appears in leading journals, including the Journal of the Academy of Marketing
Science and the Journal of Retailing, and has earned the Davidson Award (2019, 2021),
recognition as a JAMS/Sheth Foundation Best Paper Finalist (2021), and the AMS Review/Sheth
Foundation Doctoral Competition Award (2017). She serves on the Editorial Review Board
of JAMS and as an ad hoc reviewer for several leading journals.
Kim currently teaches Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and has taught marketing
at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. Beyond academia, she has provided
consulting services to organizations including U.S. federal agencies, Fortune Global
500 companies, and major Korean firms. She holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from the University
of Washington, an M.S. in Management Engineering from KAIST, and a B.S. in Information
Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.