Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering Inha University 100 Inha-ro, Michuhol-gu, Incheon 22212, Korea
Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Civil Engineering McMaster University 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON L8S3L8, Canada
Ph.D., Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2018 M.Phill., Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, 2018 M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University, 2010 B.S., Civil, Urban and Geosystems Engineering, Seoul National University, 2008
Assistant Professor, McMaster University (ON, Canada), 2019.01 - 2023.01 Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University (NY, United States), 2018(09-12) Research/Teaching Assistant, Columbia University (NY, United States), 2014.09 - 2018.08 Visiting Scholar, Sandia National Labs. (NM, United States), 2015(06-08), 2016(05-06) Research Scientist, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, 2012.04 ~ 2014.07 Assistant Manager, Kunhwa Engineering & Consulting, 2010.01 - 2012.04
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Inha University. My research interests focus on profound understanding of the behavior of geological materials and porous media such as soils, rocks, and salt for various engineering applications. I mainly focus on developing theoretical and computational models of natural and engineering systems associated with the multiphysics and multiscale aspects. My research areas encompass micromechanics of porous media and granular physics, computational plasticity modeling for extreme environmental conditions, homogenization theory and inverse problem, dynamic wave propagation, material instabilities (strain localization, soil liquefaction, damage, fracture, phase transition and crystallization), and data-driven computational mechanics. The special geotechnical applications include the multiphase frozen soil, geological carbon sequestration, hydraulic fracture, and nuclear waste disposal.