Rate My Professor Tae Yeon Kim

Dr. Tae Yeon Kim is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Khalifa University. His research interests center on computational mechanics. He earned a PhD in Civil Engineering from Duke University. Dr. Kim has held his current position at Khalifa University and previously served as Assistant Professor in the same department.

Dr. Kim’s scholarly work includes publications on topics such as mortared finite element methods for frictional contact, numerical studies of wrinkling in thin sheets, grain-size dependent properties of nanocrystalline materials, and interactions of nonlinear solitary waves with solids and composites. He has contributed to projects including thermo-mechanical tire-pavement interaction modeling and research on origami-based metamaterials. His research spans engineering, mathematics, physics and astronomy, computer science, materials science, and biochemistry.