Professor

Dr. Yeulwoo Kim is an associate professor in the civil engineering department at PuKyong National University (PKNU), Busan, Korea. He earned BS and MS degrees at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. Under the supervision of Dr. Tian-Jian Hsu, he completed his doctoral degree (civil engineering) at the University of Delaware (UD) in 2018. Before joining PKNU, he was a postdoctoral scholar at UD and UCLA (worked with Dr. Timu Gallien). His current works are based on investigating sediment transport and hydrodynamics over a porous media in the swash zone using OpenFOAM.

EDUCATION

• 2018   Ph.D   Civil & Environmental Engineering   University of Delaware

(Advisor: Dr. Tian–Jian Hsu)

• 2009   M.S   Civil & Environmental Engineering   Seoul National University

(Advisor: Dr. Kyung–Duck Suh)

• 2007   B.S   Civil, Urban & Environmental Engineering   Seoul National University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 2025 – Present   Associate Professor   Pukyong National University

• 2021 – 2025   Assistant Professor   Pukyong National University

• 2019 – 2021   Post-Doctoral Scholar   UCLA

• 2018 – 2019   Post-Doctoral Scholar   University of Delaware 

• 2009 – 2012   Researcher   Kunil Engineering