About¶
Kyeong Sun Kim · born 1993-06-10 · INTJ · PhD candidate in civil engineering at Seoul National University · defense 2026-09-03.
Researches scour assessment of offshore wind turbine tripod suction bucket foundations. Publishes open-source software alongside every paper. Tracks both the research and the body under the same Blueprint-inspired quarterly protocol. Second in his high-school graduating class. Eighth of 120 at the UC Berkeley tennis-club try-out.
Life timeline · 1993 → 2026¶
Mermaid gantts are linear-time by design — a true log-scale time axis isn't natively supported. The timeline is split in two below to approximate the "log" effect: the first chart covers 26 years (1993 → 2019) at 2-year ticks; the second covers 6 years (2020 → 2026) at 6-month ticks, so the recent, densest era gets roughly 8× more horizontal resolution per year.
1993 → 2021 · childhood · athletics · Berkeley · service + bridge¶
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title Early life · 1993 → 2021
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section Origins
★ Born · Republic of Korea :milestone, 1993-06-10, 0d
First recallable memory (age 4) :milestone, 1997-06-10, 0d
Recommended for gifted education (5th grade) :milestone, 2005-04-01, 0d
Study abroad · Canada :sac, 2006-08-01, 1y
★ Study abroad · USA :sau, 2007-08-01, 2192d
section Athletics
Started bodybuilding + tennis :bb, 2008-03-01, 17y
USTA Regency Junior Open Boys 18s · 2nd :milestone, 2010-07-15, 0d
STVA Tennis Tournament · 3rd :milestone, 2010-10-01, 0d
VISAA Tennis League · 2nd :milestone, 2011-05-15, 0d
USTA Tennis Ranking · Virginia · #30 :milestone, 2012-06-01, 0d
Oakland Kungfu Academy :kungfu, 2013-09-01, 2y
section Academic + competitions
American Math Competitions · 3rd :milestone, 2011-11-01, 0d
★ Enrolled UC Berkeley · Civil Engineering :active, bsenr, 2012-08-20, 1583d
UC Berkeley Tennis Club try-out · 8th of 120 :milestone, 2013-09-01, 0d
Concrete-lab research assistant :cla, 2014-01-15, 180d
Started reading Wikipedia systematically :milestone, 2014-01-15, 0d
ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition · 3rd :milestone, 2015-04-15, 0d
Samsung Cup · Cal vs Stanford · 3rd :milestone, 2015-11-01, 0d
★ BS Civil Engineering · UC Berkeley :milestone, 2016-12-20, 0d
section Service + bridge
★ Military service · ROK Special Forces :active, mil, 2017-06-01, 2019-09-30
★ Moscow University :active, msu, 2019-09-15, 2021-01-31
Chess rating · 2000 :milestone, 2020-05-01, 0d2020 → 2026 · PhD era · publications · defense¶
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title PhD era · 2020 → 2026
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section Early PhD
★ Enrolled SNU PhD · Civil Engineering :phd, 2021-03-02, 2016d
Centrifuge programme · 22 tests · KAIST 70 g :done, ctr, 2021-06-01, 2024-12-31
ICPMG 2022 · Daejeon :milestone, 2022-09-20, 0d
SNU Tennis Tournament · 1st :milestone, 2022-10-15, 0d
★ Field monitoring · Gunsan 4.2 MW · 32 months :active, field, 2023-05-01, 2026-05-01
GEOTEC Hanoi 2023 :milestone, 2023-11-14, 0d
SNU Tennis Tournament · 1st :milestone, 2023-10-15, 0d
★ Young Scientist Award :milestone, 2023-11-01, 0d
section Optimization + software
★ SNU PhD coursework complete :milestone, 2024-08-31, 0d
Op³ Monte Carlo ensemble · 1 794 real runs :done, mc, 2024-09-01, 2025-04-30
★ Blueprint self-optimization protocol :active, bp, 2024-10-01, 700d
Op³ framework · development → PyPI :active, op3, 2025-01-15, 2026-07-15
★ Op³ v1.0.0-rc2 on PyPI :milestone, 2025-05-01, 0d
ISFOG 2025 · Nantes :milestone, 2025-06-09, 0d
section Publications
J1 · Ocean Engineering (submitted → accepted) :done, j1, 2024-10-01, 2025-10-04
★ J1 published · first SCIE paper :milestone, 2025-10-04, 0d
J2 · Ocean Engineering submitted :milestone, 2026-02-01, 0d
J3 · Ocean Engineering submitted :milestone, 2026-03-17, 0d
K-Fish · 9-agent LLM swarm launched :active, kfish, 2026-04-01, 155d
★ Dissertation gap analysis · 1 952-paper synthesis :milestone, 2026-04-17, 0d
★ Research Notes site published :milestone, 2026-04-18, 0d
J2 R2 response due :crit, milestone, 2026-04-29, 0d
J3 R1 response due :crit, milestone, 2026-05-06, 0d
Paper V · Engineering Structures submission :v, 2026-05-01, 2026-06-15
Paper B · Comp & Geotech submission :b, 2026-05-21, 2026-06-15
Paper A · RESS submission :a, 2026-07-02, 2026-07-15
Paper Op³ · AES submission :op3p, 2026-07-02, 2026-07-15
section Defense
Dissertation v9 assembly :d9a, 2026-07-16, 14d
★ Dissertation v9 freeze :crit, milestone, 2026-08-01, 0d
Defense slides v1 :dsv1, 2026-08-06, 7d
Defense slides v2 + rehearsal :dsv2, 2026-08-13, 7d
Dry run with advisor :dryr, 2026-08-20, 7d
ICPMG 2026 · Zurich :milestone, 2026-09-10, 0d
🎓 PhD Defense · 2026-09-03 :crit, milestone, 2026-09-03, 0d
GEOTEC Hanoi 2026 :milestone, 2026-10-19, 0dHow to read¶
| Symbol | Meaning |
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| Active task or programme — length = duration | |
| Completed period | |
| Hard deadline or defense-critical | |
| Milestone — zero-duration event | |
| Critical milestone — external deadline | |
| ★ | Significant life event (starred directly in the task label) |
| 🎓 | The defense itself |
The numbers¶
Academic¶
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IQ
138
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High school
2nd in graduating class
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SAT
2240 / 2400 R 680 · M 780 · W 780
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TOEFL
115 / 120 R 28 · L 29 · S 28 · W 30
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Young Scientist Award
2023 · Seoul National University
Physical¶
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Height · weight
174 cm · 77.0 kg
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Body composition
16 % body fat (12.5 kg) · 37.4 kg skeletal muscle InBody score 89
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Big 3 · 1RM total
520 kg Bench 140 · Deadlift 200 · Squat 180
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Conditioning
10 km run · < 55 min Push-ups · 65 · Pull-ups · 25
Athletics + games¶
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Tennis
SNU Tournament · 1st (2022, 2023) Cal Tennis Club try-out · 8th of 120 (2013) USTA Virginia ranking · #30 (2012) Regency Junior Open Boys 18s · 2nd (2010)
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Chess
Rating 2000 (2020)
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Martial arts
Oakland Kungfu Academy (2013–2015)
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Engineering competitions
ASCE Concrete Canoe · 3rd (2015) Samsung Cup Cal vs Stanford · 3rd (2015) American Math Competitions · 3rd (2011)
Languages + reading¶
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Books read
< 200 by 2016 · < 300 by 2025
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Papers read
< 500 by 2023 AI-synthesized · < 1,956 by Apr 2026
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Vocabulary banks
SAT vocab · < 2000 memorised Russian words · < 2000 memorised (2020)
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Wikipedia
Systematic reading since 2014
Research¶
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22 centrifuge tests
70 g, KAIST · 5 soil series · 53-channel instrumentation · 1 : 70 scale tripod suction bucket
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32 months field data
4.2 MW Gunsan turbine · 22,616 parked-state windows processed
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1,794 Monte Carlo runs
Op³ pipeline · 3D limit analysis coupled to OpenSees dynamics · Pearson r = 0.989 capacity prediction
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Op³ framework
v1.0.0-rc2 on PyPI · 140 tests · 39 benchmarks · CI/CD · standalone Windows executable
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4 journal articles
Published / accepted / under revision + 5 co-author SCI papers + 7 conference proceedings
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1,952 papers synthesised
Hierarchical divide-and-conquer · 45 batch summaries · 5 domain maps · 1 master knowledge map
Ongoing · family business¶
Myeongil Jack-Up Ocean Co., Ltd. — family-owned offshore vessel and equipment manufacturer. Planned CTO succession provides direct understanding of how engineering decisions translate to marine construction operations, cost structures, and field deployment constraints.
Contact¶
kyeongsunkim@snu.ac.kr · GitHub · ResearchGate · LinkedIn
Advisor: Prof. Sung-Ryul Kim · SNU Civil & Environmental Engineering