Sang Yeob Kim

Republic of Korea

Name: Sang Yeob Kim
Position: Assistant Professor / Department Chair, Department of Fire and Disaster Prevention, Konkuk University
Birthdate: July 1989
Email: sangyeob@kku.ac.kr

Sang Yeob Kim is an Assistant Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Fire and Disaster Prevention at Konkuk University, where he joined in March 2023. His research interests include advanced in-situ testing methods for subsurface characterization, the characterization of soils with various compositions and conditions in extreme regions, and the behaviour of soils using elastic and electromagnetic waves.

He received his Bachelor's degree from Korea University in August 2013 and his Ph.D. in Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering Group) from Korea University in June 2019. He visited King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2018 and was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for one year in 2021. He previously worked as a research professor at Korea University and served as a lecturer at Korea, Kookmin and Daejin universities.

He has authored more than 70 papers in international scientific journals and delivered over 25 presentations at international conferences. He presented his research at the 8th International Young Geotechnical Engineers Conference (8iYGEC), held in Graz, Austria, in 2026.