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S. Sonny Kim, Ph.D, P.E., F.ASCE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow<\/em>\u00a0
<\/span>School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural, and Mechanical Engineering<\/span><\/p>\n

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2004
Email: kims@uga.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h3>\n
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  • Use of Nondestructive Testing, Remote Sensing, and Machine Learning for Resilient\/Sustainable Infrastructure Health Monitoring<\/li>\n
  • AI-Based Infrastructure Asset Management\u00a0<\/li>\n
  • Climate Resilient Infrastructure\u00a0<\/li>\n
  • Transportation Geotechnics | Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Honors\/Awards\/Achievements<\/h3>\n
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    • Best Paper Award, TranSoilCold 2025 Conference – <\/span>2025<\/li>\n
    • President’s Award, Korean Geotechnical Society – 2023
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    • Georgia Engineer of the Year, Georgia Society of Professional Engineers (GSPE) – 2021<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Civil Engineer of the Year,\u00a0American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Georgia Section (2020-2021)<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Distinguished Faculty Fellow Award, College of Engineering, University of Georgia – 2019<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Appreciation Plaque, Egyptian Housing and Building National Research Center – 2018 & 2019<\/span><\/li>\n
    • UGA PSO Fellowship Award, Public Service and Outreach, University of Georgia – 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Fellow, Geosynthetics Institute – 2018<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) – 2017<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Outstanding Faculty Award, KSU Foundation, Inc – 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Service to Professional Society<\/h3>\n
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      • Voting Member, International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) TC202 Transportation Geotechnics<\/li>\n
      • Board of Directors, Falling Weight Deflectometer User Group (FWDUG)<\/li>\n
      • Academic Representative, FHWA’s Asphalt Pavements and Materials Technical Feedback Group (APM-TFG)<\/li>\n
      • Member, ASCE Geo-Institute Pavement Committee<\/li>\n
      • Member, ASCE T&DI Highway Pavement Committee<\/li>\n
      • Member, TRB AKM 80 Aggregates<\/li>\n
      • Member, TRB AKP 20 Design and Rehabilitation of Concrete Pavements<\/li>\n
      • Editorial Board, MDPI Journal of Infrastructures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Courses Taught<\/h3>\n
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        • CVLE 8410 Inelastic Behavior of Construction Materials<\/li>\n
        • CVLE 8420 Geomechanics<\/li>\n
        • CVLE 8460 Soil Improvement<\/li>\n
        • CVLE 8470 Advanced Pavement System Design<\/li>\n
        • CVLE 3420 Introduction to Soil Mechanics<\/li>\n
        • CVLE 3450 Civil Engineering Lab – Soils<\/li>\n
        • CVLE 4450 Geotechnical Structures<\/li>\n
        • CVLE 4470\/6470 Pavement Design<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          S. Sonny Kim, Ph.D, P.E., F.ASCE   Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow\u00a0School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural, and Mechanical Engineering Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2004Email: kims@uga.edu Research Interests Use of Nondestructive Testing, Remote Sensing, and Machine Learning for Resilient\/Sustainable Infrastructure Health Monitoring AI-Based Infrastructure Asset Management\u00a0 Climate Resilient Infrastructure\u00a0 Transportation Geotechnics | Mechanistic-Empirical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1091","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kims.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kims.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kims.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kims.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kims.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/kims.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/kims.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1091\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kims.engr.uga.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}