Rate My Professor John Kim

Jonghoon “John” Kim, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Construction Management at the University of North Florida's College of Computing, Engineering, and Construction. He joined UNF in August 2020 after serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Engineering Technology at Oklahoma State University from 2016 to 2020. With over ten years of industry experience in construction and heavy civil engineering in the United States and South Korea, Kim contributed to projects involving highways, bridges, and utilities.

Kim earned his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Arizona State University, M.S. from the University of Louisville, and B.S. from Colorado State University. His research specializations include ground subsidence associated with urban water and sewer infrastructure, artificial intelligence applications in construction education and industry, use of drones and virtual reality in construction education, and quantum jumping dynamics modeling. As principal investigator, he obtained North American Society for Trenchless Technology grants for student chapters in 2020, 2022, and 2023, and international collaborations with the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology in 2020 and 2021. He has produced 39 research outputs, including “Seasonal and Regional Patterns of Ground Subsidence Associated with Urban Water and Sewer Infrastructure Failures: A Case Study in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea” (Water, 2026), “Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Construction Industry Among Undergraduate Construction Management Students: Case Study -- A Study of Future Leaders” (Buildings, 2025), “Drone-Driven Learning: Advancing Construction Education through UAV Integration” (ASEE Annual Conference, 2024), “Exploring the Economic Viability of Virtual Reality in Architectural, Engineering, and Construction Education” (Buildings, 2024), and “Modeling quantum jumping dynamics with random initial state probabilities using Markov chains” (Issues in Information Systems, 2024). Kim has coached UNF Construction Management teams to second place in the 2023 AIC Ethics Competition and first place in 2022. He serves as a reviewer for Frontiers in Water - Water and Built Environment and is a member of NASTT.