Jinhyun Choo (주진현)

Jinhyun Choo is an Associate Professor of Civil, Urban and Environmental Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU). He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from SNU and, as a Fulbright Scholar, completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University and postdoctoral research at Columbia University. Prior to returning to SNU, he held faculty positions at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

His research focuses on understanding, simulation, and prediction of the mechanics and multiphysics of geomaterials and their interactions with natural and engineered systems, through the development and application of physics-based models, computational methods, experimental techniques, and artificial intelligence. He serves on the editorial boards of leading international journals in his fields and is a core member of the ISSMGE Technical Committee on Geomechanics from Micro to Macro. He is an elected member of the Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) and a recipient of the Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics (APACM) Young Investigator Award.

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Education

Ph.D. Stanford University (2012–2016)

Civil and Environmental Engineering (Geomechanics)

Mechanical Engineering Minor

Dissertation: Hydromechanical modeling framework for multiscale porous materials

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

Civil and Environmental Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering)

Thesis: Effect of stress history on small-strain behavior of clay

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

Civil, Urban and Geosystems Engineering, Graduated with honors

Positions

Seoul National University (SNU)

Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Urban and Environmental Engineering (2025–present)

Faculty Affiliate, Institute of Construction and Environmental Engineering (2025–present)

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

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (2024–2025)

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

The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

Honorary Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering (2022–2025)

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 Construction Technology (KICT)

Research Specialist, Geotechnical Engineering Research Division (2019–2012)

Dasan Engineering Co., Ltd.

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

Honors & Awards

APACM Young Investigator Award (2025)

Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST) Member (2025)

KAIST College of Engineering Ph.D. Dissertation Award Winner’s Supervisor (2025)

KAIST Global Research Cooperation Award (2024)

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

KAIST Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2024)

Top Downloaded Article in 2022, Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods Geomech. (2024)

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

Top Cited Article in 2021–2022, Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods Geomech. (2023)

Top Downloaded Article in 2019–2020, Int. J. Numer. Anal. Methods Geomech. (2022)

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

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, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (2025-present)

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

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)

TU Dresden, Institute for Structural Analysis (Apr 2025)

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)

Journal Reviewer