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Henry M. Kim is an Associate Professor in Operations Management and Information Systems at the Schulich School of Business, York University, and a Fellow of the Filene Research Institute's All Things Payments Center of Excellence (2026 to 2028). In 2015 he founded blockchain.lab at Schulich, one of the first blockchain research laboratories based in a business school anywhere in the world, and he continues to direct it. Through E-Mergent Management Research, his research and advisory practice, he works with industry partners to turn emerging technology into deployable solutions.
His current work centers on responsible and agentic artificial intelligence in banking, in collaboration with BMO, including observability, explainability, and human in the loop oversight for AI systems, alongside research on stablecoins and the tokenization of real world assets. He contributes research on tokenization and stablecoin policy used in regulatory settings, and through his Filene fellowship he studies the future of payments for credit unions. He works actively with banks, credit unions, technology vendors, and public agencies in Canada and internationally, and has advised organizations ranging from fintechs in Canada and credit unions in the US to a startup in Switzerland and several prominent crypto projects.
His research applies blockchain, artificial intelligence, and enterprise ontologies to business processes, supply chains, and financial services, pairing academic rigour with practical impact. His portfolio spans token economics, decentralized energy trading, stablecoins and financial inclusion, blockchain adoption and ESG performance, and smart contract applications, with over 75 refereed articles across journals such as Communications of the ACM, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and the Journal of Information Systems, and leading conferences including HICSS, ICIS, and IEEE ICBC. He has secured more than $1.7 million as principal investigator from sources including NSERC, Mitacs, the Ontario Centre of Excellence, and the National Research Council, and led the $525,000 Digital Currencies cluster at York. Recent Mitacs Accelerate projects include a postdoctoral fellowship with the Bank of Canada on Bitcoin adoption and a project on hybrid blockchain traceability for critical minerals.
Prof. Kim engages partners through applied research collaborations, advisory work, and executive briefings. He has supervised doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows whose careers bridge academia and industry, serves as Finance Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency, and sits on the editorial board of Frontiers in Blockchain. His commentary has appeared on CBC, CTV, Global News, and in Barron's. He offers a rare combination: deep technical command of blockchain and AI systems, fluency in regulation and economics, and a proven ability to turn rigorous research into solutions that work in production.
