Rate My Professor Youngho Kim

Youngho Kim is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the UWA Oceans Institute and the School of Earth and Oceans at the University of Western Australia. He received his Doctor of Engineering from Yonsei University in 2010, earning the Honor for Excellent Dissertation in the field of Applied Natural Science on 9 November 2010 and the KSCE Award for Excellent Ph.D. Thesis on 31 December 2010. After completing his PhD, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Construction Engineering Research Institute in Korea for one year. In December 2011, he joined the Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems (COFS) at the University of Western Australia, where he currently serves as an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Oceans Graduate School and COFS.

Kim's research specializations include pile foundation design for onshore and offshore applications, offshore foundation systems such as anchoring systems and jack-up structures, soil-substructure interactions, and advanced finite element modelling encompassing static and dynamic analyses, large deformation finite element analysis, and soil constitutive models. His expertise covers large deformation finite element analysis, dynamically penetrating anchors, pile-soil-structure interaction analyses, and foundation analysis and design. He has published over 80 refereed journal and conference papers and has been involved in collaborations with major Korean engineering companies and research institutions, as well as Australian Research Council projects. Notable awards include the NRF Post-Doctoral Fellowship on 2 September 2011 and the Baden Clegg Award on 12 July 2016. Key publications comprise 'Insight into soil–anchor interface frictional resistance for dynamically installed maverick anchor' (Geotechnique, 2025), 'Installation and inclined loading of a suction caisson anchor in calcareous sand' (Ocean Engineering, 2025), 'Installation of suction caissons in calcareous silt' (Ocean Engineering, 2025), 'An innovative interface friction algorithm for simulating dynamic installation of anchors using CEL approach' (Ocean Engineering, 2024), and 'Numerical investigation of novel dynamic installed fish anchors in clay and calcareous silt' (Ocean Engineering, 2018).