Kim Binsted received her BSc in Physics at McGill (1991), and her PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (1996). She then went to Japan, where she conducted research at Sony’s Computer Science Laboratories on human-computer interfaces, and started a company, I-Chara KK, which developed social software agents for mobile phones. In 2002, she joined the faculty of the Information and Computer Sciences Department at the University of Hawaii, where she is now a Full Professor, and does research on AI, astrobiology and long-duration human space exploration. She also completed a MS in Planetary Geology in 2015, attempting to characterize the deuterium-hydrogen ratio in the primitive Earth mantle.Kim was a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at Ames Research Center in 2003 and 2004, where she worked on sub-vocal speech recognition technology in the Neuroengineering Lab. She was Chief Scientist on the FMARS 2007 Long Duration Mission, a four-month Mars exploration analogue on Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic. In 2009/10, she spent her sabbatical as a visiting scientist at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).Kim is a co-investigator at the UH-NASA Astrobiology Institute, and is the principal investigator on the NASA-funded HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, hi-seas.org) project, which conducts long-duration space exploration simulations at an isolated habitat on Mauna Loa. She spent the summers of 2016 and 2017 in Russia on a Fulbright award. In 2018-19, she is an AAAS Science and Technology Fellow in Senator Whitehouse’s office in Washington DC. Her hobbies include flying, diving, kayaking, cooking and improvisational comedy. For a list of publications and other information, see http://www2.hawaii.edu/~binsted.