John T. Kim

Dr. John T. Kim worked for Boeing Commercial Aircraft, Seattle, for seventeen years. Prior to this, he was a research associate at Georgia Institute of Technology. His areas of specialty are structural dynamics, fluid-structure-control interaction (a.k.a., aeroservoelasticity), flight flutter and limit cycle oscillation (LCO) testing methods, system identification and reduced-order modeling of large-scaled dynamic systems, unsteady aerodynamics, and composite structures. At Boeing, he developed innovative computational and experimental tools to enhance accurate and rapid estimation of dynamic loads, flutter and control laws, all of which are essential in design and analysis of modern aircraft structures. In 2003 he was awarded the Best Paper Award at the 5th BTEC (Boeing Technological Conference) for his work on reduced-order aerodynamic and aeroelastic modeling. Since 2005 he has taught the short course, “Computational Methods in Aeroelasticity” at AIAA Conf., Boeing Ed Wells, National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL) in Bangalore, India, NASA Langley, National University of Singapore, Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), Seoul National University, South Korea, and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia. From 2013 till 2017 he taught at National University of Singapore in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. In 2017 he founded Pegase Avtech and since then has been working as an engineering consultant for aviation companies in Europe and South Korea. He is also currently teaching at University of Washington.

Dr. Kim’s latest research is focused on characteristic and parametric nonlinear vector space which can lead to significant reductions in CPU time and complexity of nonlinear system analysis. He is an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and has one US patent on system identification. He earned his BA from Ajou University, South Korea, MS from University of Texas at Austin, USA, and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.