Professor
Dongkyun Kim, Ph.D.
Professor,
Department of Civil Engineering
Hongik University, Mapo-Gu, Seoul, Korea
Education
B.S Hanyang University, Korea, 2001
M.S. Stanford University, US, 2003
Ph.D. Texas A&M University, US, 2009
Reseach Specialty
Stochastic hydrology
Hydrologic modeling
Natural disaster prediction and risk management
Data-driven hydrology
Roles in Academic Society
Associate Editor, Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Analysis (SERRA), Associate Editor, Theoretical and Applied Climatology (TAAC)
Expert Advisor, National Strategic Research Bureau, National Research Foundation of Korea
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Jeongha Park (Ph.D., 2023), PostDoc at Imperial College London, UK
Park, J., & Kim, D.* (2022). A Stochastic Approach to Simulate Realistic Continuous Snow Depth Time Series. Journal of Hydrology, 128980. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169422015505
Park, J., Cross, D., Onof, C., Chen, Y., Kim, D.* (2021) A simple scheme to adjust Poisson cluster rectangular pulse rainfall models for improved performance at sub-hourly timescales, Journal of Hydrology, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169421003437
Anh, D., Kim, D*, Kim, S., and Park, J. (2020) Determination of flood-inducing rainfall and runoff for highly urbanized area based on high-resolution radar-gauge composite rainfall data and flooded area GIS Data, Journal of Hydrology, 584(5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124704
Park, J., Onof, C., and Kim, D*., A hybrid stochastic rainfall model that reproduces some important rainfall characteristics at hourly to yearly timescales, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 989-1014, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-989-2019, 2019.
Selected Presentations
"Stochastic Simulation of Realistic Continuous Snow Depth Time Series "
"Stochastic simulation of future sub-hourly rainfall using Poisson cluster rainfall model"
Ph.D. Degree Students
Yongchan Kim (March 2022-Present)
Land surface modeling, climate change.
Changyeon Won (March 2022-Present)
Urban flood modeling
Kyun Yun (March 2023-Present)
Urban hydrology
Master's Degree Students
Namkyun Kim (March 2017-Present)
Detection of coastal erosion using satellite SAR imageries
Hyojeong Choi (March 2023-Present)
Selected Presentations
"A convolutional LSTM model with high accuracy to predict extreme precipitation space-time fields "
Vu Quoc Hung (September 2024-Present)
Jooyeop Ha (December 2023-Present)
Undergraduate Research Students
Kyuwon Jeong (November 2024-Present)
Eugene Cho (March 2025-Present)
Research Administration Assistant
Areum Lee (June 2023-Present)
Alumni
Hyungil Kim (Ph.D., 2024)
DL ENC
Soohyun Kim (Ph.D., 2024)
PostDoc at the University of Hawaiʻi , USA
Vuong Tai Chi (M.S., 2025)
PhD student at UNSW, Australia
Junghoon Lee (M.S., 2025)
Woonki Cho
(PhD, 2023)
Dao Duc Anh
(PhD, 2021)
Lecturer, Thuy Loi University
Urban flood
Tran Dang Haiha
(MS, 2021)
Urban Flood Analysis
Waqas Ahmad
(PhD, 2019)
FAO, UN
SAR application in water resources
Minji Seo
(MS, 2019)
한국수자원조사기술원
SAR Analysis
Minkwan Oh
(MS, 2018)
서울특별시교육청
Urban Flood Modelling
SAR Analysis
Kyoodae Shim
(PhD, 2017)
GS 건설
Water purification, desalination
Jaehyeon Lee
(MS, 2017)
PhD student at the University of Florida
Land surface modeling
Radar hydrology
Hyunjin Park
(MS, 2016)
서울시 성동구청 전략기획실
Stochastic rainfall generation
Jaemoon Han
(MS, 2016)
상하수도협회
Stochastic rainfall generation
Kanghee Lee
(Senior, 2014)
MS, Stanford University
Yoonsoo Nam
(Senior, 2014)
PhD student at Texas A&M University
MS, Georgia Tech