친환경 도시계획, 도시환경 영향 및 취약성 평가, AI 도시공간 빅데이터 분석

Research topics
- Climate-responsive urban planning
- Microclimatic urban design
- Urban heat island mitigation & Heat vulnerability assessment
- Spatial heterogeneity of green infrastructure
- Pedestrians’ behavioral thermal adaptation

Analytical methods
- Human outdoor thermal comfort modeling
- Geospatial and remote-sensing image analysis
- AI based urban spatial big-data analysis
- Mobile meteorological field-measurement
- Spatial regression analysis and CFD simulation

2021. Texas A&M University, PhD (도시 및 지역계획 박사)
2012. University College London, MSc (도시계획 석사)
2009. 인하대학교, 건축학사

2023.01 - 2024.02 인천연구원, 부연구위원
2021.10 - 2022.09 Texas A&M University, Post-doctoral associate
2012.08 - 2014.07 한국환경연구원, 위촉연구원

한국지역학회 기획위원회 이사
한국도시설계학회 홍보위원회 부위원장
인천광역시 스마트도시사업협의회 위원
인천광역시 부평구 공공디자인위원회 위원
인천광역시 서구 건축위원회 위원

Microclimatic Design Research Group (MDRG), Faculty Fellow
American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Member
American Planning Association (APA), Member

개항장 기후친화 보행공간 계획기법 시범적용 및 효과분석 (연구책임), 2023 인천연구원
인천광역시 경관제도심의제도 개선방안 연구 (연구책임), 2023 인천연구원
인천광역시 지역공공건축지원센터 설립 및 운영방안 연구(연구책임), 2023 인천연구원
인천광역시 남동구 도시경관계획 재정비 (연구참여), 2023 인천연구원
인천광역시 장사시설 수급 종합계획 (연구참여), 2023 인천연구원

Nature-Based Climatic Responsive Community Planning and Design: Promoting Thermal Health Under Future Climate Predictions, The Center for Health & Nature (PI: Dongying Li; 2022 - present.)

Planning for Extreme Heat: Applying a Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard to Evaluate Urban Heat Vulnerability in Tokyo, Japan, Global Engagement Grants (PI: Siyu Yu; 2021 - 2023)

Athlete’s Hydration and performance on artificial and natural turf grass (PI: Chase Straw; 2021 - 2023)

Microclimate Systems for Long Term Space Habitation, T3 project, Texas A&M University (PI: Manoranjan Majji, 2019)

Jang, S., Bae, J., and Kim, Y. (2024) ‘Street-Level Urban Heat Island Mitigation: Assessing cooling effect of Green Infrastructure using Urban IoT Sensor Big Data’, Sustainable Cities and Society, Vol. 100

Yu,S., Lei, K., Li, D., Kim, Y., Nemoto, M., Gatson,S., Yokohari, M., and Brown, RD. (2024) ‘Plan integration for urban extreme heat: Evaluating the impacts of plans at multiple scales in Tokyo, Japan’, Urban Climate, Vol. 55

Kim, Y., Jang, S., and Kim, KB. (2023) ‘Impact of urban microclimate on walking volume by street type and heat-vulnerable age groups: Seoul's IoT sensor big data’ Urban Climate, Vol. 51

Kim, Y., Li, D. Xu, Y., X, Zhang, Y., Li, X., Muhlenforth., L., Xue, S., and Brown, RD. (2023) ‘Heat vulnerability and street-level outdoor thermal comfort in the city of Houston: Application of google street view image derived SVFs’, Urban Climate, Vol. 51

Kim, Y., Yu, S., Li, D., Gatson, SN., and Brown, RD. (2022) ‘Linking Landscape Spatial Heterogeneity to Urban Heat Island and Outdoor Human Thermal Comfort in Tokyo’, Sustainable Cities and Society, Vol. 87

Kim, Y., and Brown, RD. (2022) ‘Effect of Meteorological Conditions and Outdoor Thermal Comfort on Leisure Walking: A Time Series Analysis of a Full Year of Data’ International Journal of Biometeorology, Vol. 66

Kim, Y., Straw, C., Riechman., S., and Brown, RD. (2022) 'Assessing differences in the thermal stress of soccer players on natural turfgrass and artificial turf', SportsField Management, 11

Karimi A., Kim, Y., Zadeh, NM., García-Martínez, A., Delfani, S., Brown, RD., Moreno-Rangel, D., Mohammad, P. (2022) ‘Assessment of Outdoor Design Conditions on the Energy Performance of Cooling Systems in Future Climate Scenarios—A Case Study over Three Cities of Texas, Unites States’ Sustainability Vol 14(22)

Kim, Y., & Brown, RD. (2021) ‘A Multilevel Approach for Assessing the Effects of Microclimatic Urban Design on Pedestrian Thermal Comfort: The High Line in New York’, Building and Environment, Vol. 205.

Im, J., Kim, Y., Bae, J., and Jang, S. (2021) ‘The Effect of Self-Efficacy on Participation in Urban Agriculture Practice for College Students’, Korean Association of Regional Studies Vol.28.

Brown, RD., Tasnum, T., and Kim, Y. (2020), ‘Assessing U.S. Landscape Architecture Faculty Research Contribution’, Land 2020, 9, 64.

Lenzholzer, S., Carsjens, G., Brown, RD., Tavares, S. Vanos, J., Kim, Y., and Lee, K. (2020) ‘Urban Climate Awareness and Urgency to Adapt: An International Overview’, Urban Climate 33.

Lenzholzer, S., Carsjens, G., Brown, RD., Tavares, S., Vanos, J., Kim, Y., and Lee, K. (2020) ‘Awareness of Urban Climate Adaptation Strategies – An International Overview’, Urban Climate 34.

Kim, Y., Lee, J., and Kim, K. (2018), ‘Development of Flood Mitigation Strategies for Urban Resilience: Focused on the Assessment of Gulpo Stream’s Watershed in Incheon, South Korea’, Urban Design Institute of Korea, Vol.19

Kim, Y., and Kim, K. (2010), ‘A Study on Policy Framework and Exemplified Planning Practice for Climate Change Action in the U.K: Focusing on London and Southeast Area’, Seoul Studies. 11(4)

Im, J., Choi, J., and Kim, Y. (2010), ‘A Study on the City-type Architectural Methods for Sustainable Tourism’, KICA Journal (31), The Korean Institute of Culture Architecture