 Kim was chosen as the Distinguished Professor by the College of Engineering of Seoul National University in 2007 and the inaugural Seoul National University Academic Research Award as the only engineering college in 2008.He also received one of the best teaching awards in 2008.Kim developed the general purpose parallel finite element code, IPSAP (Internet Parallel Structural Analysis Program) in the mid-1990s, which can be run efficiently not only on an ordinary SMP supercomputer but also in the distributed computing environment like clusters and PCs connected through the Internet.