Hongjo Kim

Associate Professor, Smart Infrastructure Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University

🧑‍🏫 Professional Employment

• 2026.3 ~ Present
  Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea

• 2021.3 ~ 2026.2
  Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea

• 2019.8 ~ 2020.12
  Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Dayton, OH, United States

• 2019.5 ~ 2019.7
  Research Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

• 2018.3 ~ 2019.4
  Research Associate, Department of Construction Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States

• 2018.3 ~ 2019.3
  Research Associate, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea

🎓 Education

• 2013.3 ~ 2018.2
  Ph.D. in the School of Civil and Environment Engineering, Yonsei University

  • Supervisor: Dr. Hyoungkwan Kim
    • Ph.D. Dissertation: “Vision and Artificial Intelligence-based Context Information Generation from Image Data for Construction Management”

• 2009.3 ~ 2013.2
  Bachelor in the School of Civil and Environment Engineering, Yonsei University

🏅 Honors and Awards

• 2023

  • Yonsei University Excellent Teaching Award
  • Korean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE) Excellent Paper Awards (2 papers)
    • “Training Data Generation for a Self-Supervised Construction Object Detection Model”,
    • “Optimization of Maintenance Strategies for Floating Debris Barriers Using Computer Vision and Monte Carlo Simulation”

• 2022

  • Korean Institute of Construction and Management (KICM) Annual Conference Excellent Paper Award
    • “A Study on Ambiguous Labeling in Semantic Segmentation of Road Cracks”

• 2017

  • Best Paper Award (2016 CEE Paper of the Year, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University)
    • Hongjo Kim, Kinam Kim, and Hyoungkwan Kim (2016). “Vision-Based Object-Centric Safety Assessment Using Fuzzy Inference: Monitoring Struck-By Accidents with Moving Objects” Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 30(4), 04015075.
  • Excellent Paper Award (Korean Institute of Construction Engineering and Management 2017 Conference)
    • Hongjo Kim, Seongdeok Bang, Hoyoung Jeong, Hyoungkwan Kim (2017). “Vision-based Monitoring and Construction Process Simulation for Productivity Analysis of an Earthmoving Process in a Tunnel” 2017 Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management Conference, 47―48.

• 2016

  • Excellent Paper Award (2016 Korean Society of Civil Engineers Conference)
    • Hongjo Kim, Kinam Kim, Seongdeok Bang, Hyoungkwan Kim (2016). “3D Reconstruction of Construction Entities from Images using Multi-View Stereo” 2016 Korean Society of Civil Engineers Conference, 25―26.

• 2014

  • Excellent Paper Award (2014 Korean Institute of Construction Engineering and Management Conference)
    • Hongjo Kim, Hoyoung Jeong, Kinam Kim, Sungjae Park, Changyoon Kim, Hyoungkwan Kim (2014). “ A Fuzzy Inference- and Computer Vision-based Safety Assessment System for Construction Site Entities” 2014 Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management Conference, 99―100.

• 2013

  • Excellent Paper Award (2013 Korean Institute of Construction Engineering and Management Conference)
    • Changyoon Kim, Hongjo Kim, Sungmo Ahn, Hyoungkwan Kim (2013). “BIM-based Construction Site Layout Planning for Caisson Structure Fabrication using Process Simulation” 2013 Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management Conference, 193―194.

• 2012

  • Silver Prize, Programming Competition, College of Engineering, Yonsei University

• 2013 ~ 2017

  • Scholarship, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea (Total $23,555)

🛠 Service

• 2026.2 ~ Present
  Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

• 2022.5 ~ Present
  Editorial Board Member, Journal of the Korean Society of Civil Engineers

• 2023.2 ~ Present
  Editorial Board Member, KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research

• Reviewer, Automation in Construction

• Reviewer, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

• Reviewer, Computer-aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

• Reviewer, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

• Collaborator, the Miami Valley Repair and Rebuild Task Force, Ohio, USA

🏛 Professional and Honorary Society Memberships

• Member, ASCE Construction Research Council (CRC), 2020 – present

• Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2019 – present

• Member, Korea Institute of Construction Engineering and Management (KICEM), 2013 – present