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Education
- Ph.D. (Water Resources Engineering and Remote Sensing of Environment), Jul 2013–Nov 2017
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Thesis: Improvements and applications of satellite-derived soil moisture for flood forecasting (Download)
- Supervisors: Ashish Sharma, Fiona Johnson, Yi Liu
- M.Eng. (Water Resources Engineering), Mar 2006–Feb 2008
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- Thesis: Study for Improving Water Distribution System Reliability (Download)
- Supervisor: Joong Hoon Kim
- B.Eng. (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Mar 1997–Feb 2001
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Professional Appointments
- Associate Manager, Water resources engineering in HDEC, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Jan 2008–Jul 2013
Military services (compulsory)
- Platoon leader & intelligence officer (1st lieutenant), Republic of Korea Army, Jul 2001–Sept 2004
Publications
Presentations
Awards & Scholarship
- Early Career Research Excellence (ECRE) Award: MSSANZ, 2021
- UNSW Early Career Academic Seed grants (AUD 1,000): UNSW Sydney, 2021
- UNSW Strategic Research Fund (AUD 4,000): UNSW Sydney, 2021
- UNSW Postgraduate Writing Fellowship (AUD 6,500): UNSW Sydney, May 2017–Aug 2017
- Tuition Fee, Stipend and Top-up Scholarship: UNSW Sydney, Jul 2013–Jan 2017
- Scholarships from Administrative Assistant, GS E&C Corp., and NRKF BK 21: Korea University, 2006–2007
Certification
- Professional Engineer Skill Level 1 Civil Engineer: Engineers Australia, Apr 2018
- Engineer Civil Engineering: Human Resources Development Service of Korea, Oct 2000
Languages
Korean (mother tongue), English (fluent)
Skills & Expertise
Hydrology and water resources engineering, remote sensing, MATLAB, Python, ArcGIS/QGIS
Research Experience
- Research Associate, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Apr 2017–Feb 2022
- Applications of environmental data (satellite, reanalysis, ground)
- Ph.D. Student, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, Jul. 2013–Mar 2017
- Improvements and applications of satellite-derived data
- Master Student, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Mar 2006–Feb 2008
- Improving water system reliability
Teaching Experiences
- Post-Doctoral Teaching Assistant, UNSW Sydney, Australia, Jul 2017–Mar 2020
- Teaching, coordinating and consulting for Catchment and Water Resources Modelling (PG), Water Resources Engineering (UG)
- Academic supervision of masters/honours students
- Teaching Assistant, UNSW Sydney, Australia, Jul 2013–Mar 2017
- Teaching Assistant, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, Mar 2006–Feb 2008
Professional activities
- Reviewer for Scholarly Journal: Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinf.; J. Hydrol.; Remote Sens. Environ.; Stoch Environ Res Risk Assess; PLOS ONE; KSCE J. Civ. Eng.; ISPRS J. Photogramm. Remote Sens.; Environ. Res. Lett.; ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf.
- Conference session convener: AOGS 2020 and MODSIM 2021
- Professional membership: Member, Engineers Australia (EA); Member, Australian Water Association (AWA); Member, Korean Society of Remote Sensing (KSRS); Member, Korea Water Resources Association (KWRA); Member, Korean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE)
Projects Involved
- Research Associate, UNSW Sydney, Australia, Apr 2017–Feb 2022
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP), Assessing Water Supply Security in a Nonstationary Environment, May 2020–Feb 2022
- ARC DP, A Fourier approach to address low-frequency variability bias in hydrology, May 2019–April 2020
- ARC Linkage Project, funded by WaterNSW and Sydney Water, Adapting catchment monitoring and portable water treatment to climate change, Apr 2017–May 2019
- Ph.D. candidate, UNSW Sydney, Australia, Jul 2013–Mar 2017
- ARC DP, Reducing Flood Loss-Data Assimilation Framework for Improving Forecasting Capability in Sparsely Gauged Regions, Jul 2013–Mar 2017
- Soil Moisture Active Passive Experiment - the 4th campaign SMAPEx-4, May 2015
