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Singapore
2026

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Engineering and Technology

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82
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World Ranking
459
National Ranking
6

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73
Citations
21090
World Ranking
788
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Singapore Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Singapore Leader Award

Overview

Kok-Kwang Phoon is affiliated with the Singapore University of Technology and Design in Singapore. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a strong emphasis on civil and structural engineering as well as safety, risk, reliability, and quality within the engineering domain.

Their work extensively covers topics related to geotechnical engineering and analysis, geotechnical engineering and underground structures, landslides and related hazards, soil and unsaturated flow, geotechnical engineering and soil mechanics, geophysical methods and applications, and soil geostatistics and mapping.

Kok-Kwang Phoon has contributed to various academic publications, with recent notable papers including:

  • Future of machine learning in geotechnics, 2022, Georisk Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards
  • Challenges in data-driven site characterization, 2021, Georisk Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards
  • Geotechnical uncertainty, modeling, and decision making, 2022, SOILS AND FOUNDATIONS

In addition to papers authored directly by Phoon, other influential recent works related to the field include:

  • Scale of Fluctuation for Spatially Varying Soils: Estimation Methods and Values, 2020, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part A Civil Engineering
  • Novel approach to estimate vertical scale of fluctuation based on CPT data using convolutional neural networks, 2021, Engineering Geology

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues, including:

  • Georisk Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards
  • ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems Part A Civil Engineering
  • Computers and Geotechnics
  • Canadian Geotechnical Journal
  • Geodata and AI.

Kok-Kwang Phoon often collaborates with fellow researchers such as Jianye Ching, Chong Tang, Takayuki Shuku, Yu Wang, and Hongwei Huang.

Best Publications

  • Characterization of geotechnical variability

    Kok-Kwang Phoon;Fred H Kulhawy

  • Evaluation of geotechnical property variability

    Kok-Kwang Phoon;Fred H Kulhawy

  • Convergence study of the truncated Karhunen-Loeve expansion for simulation of stochastic processes

    S. P. Huang;S. T. Quek;K. K. Phoon

  • Foundation Analysis and Design

    Robert L. Parsons;Limin Zhang;Wei Dong Guo;K. K. Phoon

  • Efficient System Reliability Analysis of Slope Stability in Spatially Variable Soils Using Monte Carlo Simulation

    Shui-Hua Jiang;Dian-Qing Li;Zi-Jun Cao;Chuang-Bing Zhou

  • Implementation of Karhunen-Loeve expansion for simulation using a wavelet-Galerkin scheme

    K.K Phoon;S.P Huang;S.T Quek

  • Simulation of second-order processes using Karhunen–Loeve expansion

    K.K. Phoon;S.P. Huang;S.T. Quek

  • Simulation of strongly non-Gaussian processes using Karhunen–Loeve expansion

    K.K. Phoon;H.W. Huang;S.T. Quek

  • Response surface methods for slope reliability analysis: Review and comparison

    Dian-Qing Li;Dong Zheng;Zi-Jun Cao;Xiao-Song Tang

  • Future of machine learning in geotechnics

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  • Reliability-Based Design of Foundations for Transmission Line Structures

    Fred H. Kulhawy;Kok Kwang Phoon;Widjojo Adi Prakoso;Anwar Hirany

  • Random field characterisation of stress-normalised cone penetration testing parameters

    M. Uzielli;G. Vannucchi;K. K. Phoon

  • Identification of statistically homogeneous soil layers using modified Bartlett statistics

    Kok-Kwang Phoon;Ser-Tong Quek;Ping An

  • Effect of spatially variable shear strength parameters with linearly increasing mean trend on reliability of infinite slopes

    Dian Qing Li;Xiao Hui Qi;Kok Kwang Phoon;Li Min Zhang

  • Impact of copula selection on geotechnical reliability under incomplete probability information

    Xiao-Song Tang;Dian-Qing Li;Guan Rong;Kok-Kwang Phoon

  • Development of a reliability-based design framework for transmission line structure foundations

    Kok-Kwang Phoon;Fred H. Kulhawy;Mircea D. Grigoriu

  • Effects of soil spatial variability on rainfall-induced landslides

    Anastasia M. Santoso;Kok-Kwang Phoon;Ser-Tong Quek

  • Reliability-Based Design in Geotechnical Engineering: Computations and Applications

    Kok-Kwang Phoon

  • Copula-based approaches for evaluating slope reliability under incomplete probability information

    Xiao-Song Tang;Dian-Qing Li;Chuang-Bing Zhou;Chuang-Bing Zhou;Kok-Kwang Phoon

  • Characterisation and engineering properties of natural soils

    T. S. Tan;K. K. Phoon;D. W. Hight;Serge Leroueil

  • Characterization of Geotechnical Variability

    Kok-Kwang Phoon;Fred H. Kulhawy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jianye Ching
Jianye Ching National Taiwan University
Dian-Qing Li
Dian-Qing Li Wuhan University
Fred H. Kulhawy
Fred H. Kulhawy Cornell University
Zi-Jun Cao
Zi-Jun Cao Southwest Jiaotong University
Kim-Chuan Toh
Kim-Chuan Toh National University of Singapore
Chuangbing Zhou
Chuangbing Zhou Nanchang University
Ser Tong Quek
Ser Tong Quek National University of Singapore
Li Min Zhang
Li Min Zhang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hongwei Huang
Hongwei Huang Tongji University
Fook Hou Lee
Fook Hou Lee National University of Singapore

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