Hi, I’m Kinam Kim

I am a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology working at Robotics & Intelligent Construction Automation Laboratory (https://rical.ce.gatech.edu/) and am on track to defend my doctoral thesis in May 2022. My research aims to better understand construction jobsites and to facilitate informative interaction between construction entities and resources. By using emerging technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things) and artfcial intelligence, automation of acquiring, processing, interpreting, and sharing useful information can be achieved so that various stakeholders of construction projects can obtain the information effectively and effciently, and ultimately make a decision. In this context, I have conducted research on IoT-enabled proximity warning systems with different sensing modalities and information delivery methods. I have researched automated recognition of construction worker's behavior and productivity using deep learning approaches as my Ph.D. thesis. I conducted research on visualizing a crane operation on a real time basis to improve its safety in blind lifts.