News

  • Our group’s research on salt marsh is on air: Marshes combat climate change by storing carbon. Scientists want to know how much, WABE 90.1
  • Dr. Kim is named 2021 Civil Engineer of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Georgia Section.
  • Dr. Kim received $1.17M research grant from NSF/USDA to develop a cost-effective, scalable, and robust sensing framework to measure soil organic matter (primarily carbon) in salt marshes using smart field sensing, remote sensing technology, edge and cloud computing, and machine learning algorithms to acquire, store, and analyze data from both near surface and below ground.
  • Dr. Kim is named 2021 Georgia Engineer of the Year by the Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE). The GSPE’s annual awards honor licensed engineers who have made outstanding contributions to the engineering profession, the public welfare and humankind. The award winners are selected from five categories: Engineer of the Year in construction, education, government, industry and private practice. The judging committee also designates an overall Engineer of the Year by selecting the highest scoring winner from all of the nominated categories. Kim was named the 2021 Georgia Engineer of the Year for his impactful research, teaching and professional service on his professional profession.
  • Iman and Chandler graduated in December 2020. Iman will be teaching at Athens Technical College as faculty in Spring 2021. Congratulations!
  • Iman Salahikouei and Chandler Banks completed their PhD and MS defenses, successfully! (Oct. 2020)
  • Hampton Worthey graduated with MS. Congratulations! (May 2020)
  • Jason Wright and Dr. Kim’s paper was selected by the editors of Journal of Infrastructures as the cover of the forthcoming issue.
    The issue cover will be displayed on the issue page: https://www.mdpi.com/2412-3811/5, and promoted in the issue released notification (April 2020).
  • Kim Lab invited GDOT and FHWA engineers to the UGA campus for the two-day MEPDG Training Workshop (March 2020)
  • Our research group presented three posters and one lectern session at the 99th TRB annual meeting in Washington DC. (Jan. 2020)
  • Dr. Kim and graduate student Ahmad Abdelmawla attended the 2nd International Conference of Green Sustainable Industry Roads in Egypt. Dr. Kim presented the keynote address at the conference, focusing on the use of recycled materials and nondestructive technology for green road sustainable construction and evaluation. (December 2019)
  • Dr. Kim is featured in Public Service & Outreach News. (June 2019)
  • Dr. Kim was named Distinguished Faculty Fellow in recognition of his excellence in scholarship and the development of a robust and growing research program (April 2019).
  • Dr. Kim is profiled as Focus Faculty on UGA website. (Feb. 2019)
  • Welcome Ahmad to join our research group as a Ph.D student! (Jan. 2019)
  • Welcome Narges to join our research group as a Ph.D student! (Aug. 2018)
  • Jason Wright has been selected as a recipient for 2018-2019 Geosynthetics Institute (GSI) Fellowship Award in addition to two other scholarships, which are UGA Rowan Leadership Scholarship and Deep Foundation Institute Scholarship. Big Congratulations to Jason. (July 2018). Relevant articles can be found below links:
  • Dr. Kim has been awarded a UGA Public Service and Outreach Fellowship for fall 2018.
  • Dr. Kim was invited to be a keynote speaker in the 1st International Conference for Green Sustainable Industry Roads in Egypt sponsored by Housing and Building National Research Center (May 2018).
  • Jason Wright was selected as an honorable mention for the UGA Engineering Brahm Verma Leadership Award. (March 2018) Also, Jason was awarded 4th place in the 2018 annual poster competition sponsored by the UGA Engineering Graduate Club. The title of his research poster is “Evaluation of the effects of Using a Geotextile for Pavement Embankment Construction in North Georgia“. (March 2018)
  • Dr. Kim has been elected Fellow by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The distinction of ASCE Fellow acknowledges significant contributions to the civil engineering profession and to a career of service to the public. The honor is held by fewer than three percent of ASCE’s 150,000 members worldwide (Sept. 2017)
  • Welcome Steve Pahno and Iman Salehi to join our research group as Ph.D students! (Aug. 2017)
  • Welcome Steven Williams and Austin Etheridge to join our research group! (Jan. 2017)
  • Our research group attended the 96th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting and presented our recent findings from GDOT RP 14-12. Several states showed their interests on fatigue resistance improvement of asphalt concrete mixtures using Corrected Optimum Asphalt Content (COAC) described in GDOT Specification Section 828, SOP 2 (Jan. 2017).
  • Jason Wright has been named the recipient of the International Concrete Repair Institute, Georgia Chapter Student Scholarship. Congratulations, Jason! (Dec, 2016)
  • Dr. Kim joined the 12th Meeting of the Sustainable Pavements Technical Working Group at Florida DOT (Dec. 2016)
  • Johnson, C., Chorzepa, M., Durham, S., Kim, S., “Forensic Investigation of Pavement: Survey of State Practices and Techniques” has been accepted for publication in Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, ASCE (Dec. 2016)
  • Dr. Kim presented the research findings of GDOT RP 14-13, “Forensic Investigation of Georgia Pavement” at the 2016 Falling Weight Deflectometer User Group (FWDUG) meeting at San Jose, CA (September, 2016)
  • Our lab group and the Transportation Infrastructure Research Group of the University of Georgia College of Engineering’s Secure, Resilient and Sustainable Systems Cluster presented research outcomes at the 2016 Georgia Transportation Institute and Georgia Department of Transportation Research Symposium. The symposium, held Sept. 13 in Atlanta, featured more than 85 posters on transportation-related research and 150 attendees. Dr. Kim presented two posters with the research findings from RP 14-12 and RP 14-13 (September 2016).
  • Welcome Amy Brooks to join our lab! (June 2016)
  • Dr. Kim presented “Factors Affecting Resilient and Permanent Behavior of Unbound Granular Aggregate Base” at the 2016 ASCE T&DI Conference at Houston, TX (June 2016)