Jong Bum Kim, PhD
Associate Professor
Jong Bum Kim, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Studies at University of Missouri Columbia. He is a director of Immersive Visualization Lab (iLab) of Architectural Studies. He teaches design studios, design communication, and design computing courses. He has published journals and proceedings, including Journal of Automation in Construction, Building Performance Simulation, ASHRAE Transactions, ACADIA, eCAADe, CAADRIA, and IBPSA.
Dr. Kim has over 10 years of research and teaching experience and 8 years of professional design practice in the USA and Korea. Before joining University of Missouri in Fall 2017, he taught at Texas A&M University. He was a post-doctoral research associate of BIMSIM group. Dr. Kim worked on interdisciplinary research projects funded by NSF, DOE, AT&T, and ASHRAE.
Teaching Philosophy
Fostering creative thinking and design competence remains a challenge in design education. My teaching objectives are to enable students to (1) learn principles, theories, and methods of design computing, (2) improve design communication in the collaborative design process, (3) foster creative thinking and problem-solving for innovative design, and (4) develop design competence and self-learning skills in and out of the classroom.
Research Philosophy
Emerging computational methods are dramatically changing the way we design architecture, shifting the architectural industry far beyond its traditional limit of design and construction. My research objective is to build a body of knowledge in design computing and discover innovative design methods for sustainable collaborative design.
Recent Work
Kim, J. B., Oprean D, Cole L, & Zangori L. (2023). Illumi’s world: A mini-game development with parametric BIM-based simulations. International Journal of Architectural Computing. 2023;21(3). Sage Journals. doi: 10.1177/14780771231180256 [CiteScore: 2.5, h5-index: 15]
Kim, J. B., Kim, S., & Aman, J*. (2023). An Urban Building Energy Simulation Method Integrating Parametric BIM and Machine Learning. Human-Centric, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) 2023, March 18-24, Navrangpura, India. Doi: https://papers.cumincad.org/cgi-bin/works/Show?caadria2023_403 [CumInCAD indexed, double-blind, peer-reviewed full paper]
Lima, S.Q*., Balakrishnan, B., & Kim, J. B. (2023). Virtual Construction Simulation: Evaluating Impact of Immersion and Interactivity on Novice Designers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol X. Springer, Cham (2023)
Aman, J*. & Kim, J. B. (2023). Multi-Variate Prediction Interface: A framework for forecasting the impact of urban morphology on carbon emissions. Proceedings of the 41th International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe), September 20-23, 2023, Graz, Austria. [CumInCAD indexed, double-blind, peer-reviewed full paper]
Kim J. B., Oprean D, Cole L, & Zangori L. (2022). Net Zero Game: A pilot study of game development for green building education in rural schools. 27th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), April 12-15, 2022, Sydney. doi: https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2022.2.455 [CumInCAD indexed, double-blind, peer-reviewed full paper]
Lee, S., & Kim, J. B. (2022). Mixed-use contextualized: Understanding the spatial characteristics of mixed-use in Kansas City, MO. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17549175.2022.2137687 [CiteScore: 3.3, SNIP: 0.583]
As a faculty member and student mentor in Architectural Studies, I am thrilled to see our MU Tigers’ growth and success in and beyond the classroom. Let’s push our boundaries and shape our future together.
Licensed Engineer Architecture in Korea
- Collaborative project design and delivery process
- Computational methods for community and architectural design
- Parametric Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- Building performance analysis
- AI-based Prediction
- Immersive visualization
- Ph.D. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 2014.
- MS, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2008.
- MS, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2000.
- BA, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 1998.
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