Jinhyun Choo

Biography

Jinhyun Choo is Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at KAIST. Born and raised in South Korea, Choo obtained his B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University and worked at the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology. Later, as a Fulbright Scholar, he received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and conducted postdoctoral research at Columbia University. Prior to joining KAIST, he was a faculty at The University of Hong Kong.

Choo researches next-generation methods to understand, predict, and manage the behavior of complex physical systems as they relate to safeguarding and decarbonizing the built environment. He specializes in computational mechanics and multi-physics of porous, granular, and discontinuous materials including geomaterials. Applications of his work include smart infrastructure systems, natural hazards mitigation, and clean energy technologies.

Education

Ph.D. Stanford University (2012–2016)

• Civil and Environmental Engineering, Minor in Mechanical Engineering

M.S. Seoul National University (2007–2009)

• Civil and Environmental Engineering

B.S. Seoul National University (2003–2007)

• Civil, Urban, and Geosystems Engineering

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 Seminars (selected)

• Korean Society of Computational Mechanics Conference (Jun 2022)
• Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference (May 2022)
• 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)