Ki Young Koo
Adviser, Sensor Engineering
is a structural engineer with 25 years of research focused on vibration-based Structural Health Monitoring including Tamar Bridge, Humber Bridge, and Rugeley Chimney. Since joining the University of Exeter in 2013, he has emerged as a civionics (civil + electrical) engineer and academic—one of only a few in the world. His pursuit of wireless accelerometer sensors for civil infrastructures led him into electrical and embedded programming, with the development of the GNSS-based time-synchronization method. He is pioneering innovative sensor systems that enable extreme efficiency and effectiveness in the field, transforming the practice of civil infrastructure monitoring and maintenance. He is embedding intelligence into civil infrastructures through advanced embedded programming and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies.


