Jongkil Kim is currently affiliated with the Department of Cyber Security and AI Convergence at Ewha Womans University.

He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wollongong, Australia, which he earned in 2016. Prior to that, he completed his M.Sc. at ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2012, following an earlier M.Sc. in 2004 and a B.Sc. in 2002, both from KAIST, Korea.