Young Hoon Kwak is an Associate Professor of Project Management in the Department of Decision Sciences at The George Washington University’s School of Business in Washington, D.C. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering and Project Management from the University of California at Berkeley. He worked as a visiting engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a visiting assistant professor at the Florida International University, and as a visiting scholar at the IPA Institute.

Dr. Kwak currently serves as a specialty editor (associate editor) for the case studies section of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management (ASCE) as well as on the editorial board for the International Journal of Project Management (Elsevier), the Project Management Journal (Wiley), the Journal of Management in Engineering (ASCE), and the International Journal of Managing Projects in Business (Emerald).

He is a three-time recipient of the Project Management Institute (PMI®)’s research grant and two-time recipient of the IBM Center for The Business of Government’s research stipend. His research with Dr. Anbari titled “Impact on Project Management of Allied Disciplines,” which was partially funded by the PMI®, won the 2008 International Project Management Association Outstanding Research Contributions Award.

Dr. Kwak has consulted worldwide and presented and published over 80 articles in journals, books, book chapters, magazines, and conference proceedings. His scholarly works appear in: California Management Review, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Engineering Management Review, Technovation: The International Journal of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Management, International Journal of Project Management, Project Management Journal, International Journal of Managing Projects in Business, Risk Management: An International Journal, Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Journal of Management in Engineering, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Korean Management Review, and many others.
Dr. Kwak’s primary research interests include strategic issues of project management; project control; performance improvement; technology management; risk management; and engineering, construction, and infrastructure management.