Jinhyun Choo — KAIST Geomechanics Lab

Jinhyun Choo (주진현)

Jinhyun Choo is an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at KAIST. He researches next-generation approaches to understanding, prediction, and control of the behavior of complex physical systems as they relate to safeguarding and decarbonizing the built environment. He specializes in computational mechanics and multiphysics of porous, granular, and discontinuous materials including geomaterials.

Professor Choo received his Ph.D. from Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar, conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia University, and worked as a faculty at the University of Hong Kong before relocating to KAIST. He is a core member of the Technical Committee on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and several other technical committees. He also serves as an editorial board member of Acta Geotechnica, Advances in Engineering Software, Computers and Geotechnics, and the Journal of Elasticity.

Education

Ph.D. Stanford University

Civil and Environmental Engineering (Geomechanics)

Mechanical Engineering Minor (Mechanics and Computation)

M.S. Seoul National University

Civil and Environmental Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering)

B.S. Seoul National University

Civil, Urban, and Geosystems Engineering, Graduated with honors

Positions

KAIST

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2024–present)

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2022–2024)

Seoul National University

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2021–2022)

The University of Hong Kong

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (2018–2022)

Columbia University

Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (2016-2017)

Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology

Research Specialist, Geotechnical Engineering Research Division (2009-2012)

Dasan Engineering Co., Ltd.

Engineer, U.S. Army Garrison Camp Humphreys Design–Build Project (2009)

Honors & Awards (selected)

Rising Star in Geotechnical Engineering, Frontiers in Built Environment (2024)

Prize for Excellence in Teaching, KAIST (2024)

ASCE EMI 2023 Poromechanics Competition Winner’s Supervisor (2023)

ASCE EMI 2021 Computational Mechanics Competition Runner Up’s Supervisor (2021)

ASCE EMI 2021 Poromechanics Competition Winner’s Supervisor (2021)

Charles H. Leavell Fellowship, Stanford University (2015–2016)

U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics Travel Award (2015)

Blume Earthquake Engineering Center Research Assistantship (2012–2015)

Fulbright Scholarship (2012–2014)

National Science & Technology Full Scholarship of Korea (2003–2007)

Professional Activities

Technical Committee Memberships (international)

Computational Mechanics Committee, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute

Poromechanics Committee, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute

Computational Geotechnics Committee, ASCE Geo-Institute

Soil Properties and Modeling Committee, ASCE Geo-Institute

Numerical Methods Committee (TC103), ISSMGE

Geo-Mechanics from Micro to Macro Committee (TC105), ISSMGE

Energy Geotechnics Committee (TC308), ISSMGE

Machine Learning and Big Data Committee (TC309), ISSMGE

Invited Talks (selected)

CouFrac2024: 4th International Conference on Coupled Processes in Fractured Geological Media (Nov 2024)

IWACOM-IV: 4th International Workshops on Advances in Computational Mechanics (Sep 2024)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Mechanics and Materials Unit (Nov 2023)

Korean Geotechnical Society Conference Keynote (Sep 2023)

University of Minnesota, Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences & Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering (Jun 2023)

Northwestern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Jun 2023)

Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Department of Mechanical Engineering (Jan 2022)

Seoul National University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Mar 2021)

Korea Association of Underground Safety (Sep 2019)

Geotechnical Engineering Office of the Hong Kong SAR Government (Jan 2019)

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Dec 2017)

Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Mar 2016)

Duke University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (Jan 2016)

Editorial Service

Associate Editor, International Journal of Geo-Engineering (2023–present)

Associate Editor, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering (2019–present)

Editorial Board Member, Acta Geotechnica (2024-present)

Editorial Board Member, Advances in Engineering Software (2024-present)

Editorial Board Member, Computers and Geotechnics (2024-present)

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Elasticity (2023-present)

Journal Reviewer