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1. Professor
Hyunwook Choo (추현욱), PhD
Hyunwook Choo was born in Korea in 1980. He earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Korea University in 2006 and 2008, respectively.
He worked as site development supervisor in Korea through 2008. He started pursuing graduate-level studies at Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering since 2009, and completed his Ph.D. degree in August 2013.
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Work Experiences
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University, Sep. 2021 ~ Current
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Sep. 2017 ~ Aug.2021
Research Professor, School of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Korea University, Jan. 2014 ~ Aug. 2017
Postdoctoral Fellow, Geoenvironmental Research Group, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Sep.2013~Dec.2013
Graduate Research Assistant, Geoenvironmental Research Group, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Aug.2009~Aug.2013
Experimental Skills
Geophysical Test
Triaxial Test
- Shear/Primary Wave Propagation Measurement
- Electrical Conductivity/Resistivity Measurement
- Thermal Conductivity Measurement
Calibration Chamber Test / In-situ Test
- Cone Penetration Test (CPT)
- Dilatometer Test (DMT)
- Screw Plate Test (SPLT)
- PBD Drainage Test
Large Tilting Flume Test
AFM measurement (Veeco AFM)
Contact Angle Measurement (Rame-hart Model 250 goniometer)
Specific Surface Measurement (Micromeritics ASAP 2020)
Zeta Potential Measurement (Brookhaven ZetaPlus)
SEM measurement (Zeiss Ultra60 FE-SEM)
ICP-OES (PerkinElmer Optima 8000)m
2. Graduate Students
a. PhD Students
Jang-Un Kim (김장언)
Ph.D course
Topic:
Engineering behaviors of soft clay under mechanical repetitive loading conditions
Awards:
토질및기초기술사 (2022)
한국지반신소재공학회(KGSS) 2023 가을 학술발표회 최우수 논문상
한국지반신소재공학회(KGSS) 2017 가을 학술발표회 우수 논문상
Publications:
Kim, M., Lee, C., Kim, J. U., & Choo, H. (2023). Use of shear wave velocity for assessing engineering properties of compacted bentonite after swelling. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 15705.
Won, J., Kim, J. U., & Choo, H. (2023). Estimation of the swelling strain and swelling pressure of compacted bentonite using electrical conductivity. Applied Clay Science, 242, 107040.
Kim, J. U., Choo, H., Yoon, B., & Burns, S. E. (2025). Experimental study on the swelling pressure of compacted bentonite under high temperatures above 100°C. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment, 100, 671.
Heerym Han (한희림)
Ph.D course
Topic:
Engineering behaviors of soft clay under coupled mechanical-chemical loading conditions
Awards:
대한토목학회 (KSCE) 2023 CONVENTION 우수 논문상
한국지반신소재공학회(KGSS) 2024 봄 학술발표회 우수 논문상
Publications:
Han, H., Choo, H., & Park, J. (2023). Evaluation of the coefficient of lateral stress at rest of granular materials under repetitive loading conditions. Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering.
Jiseok Oh (오지석)
MS - Ph.D combined course
Topic:
State-dependent properties of rigid-soft binary mixtures
Awards:
한국지반공학회 (KGS) 2023 봄 학술발표회 우수 포스터
한국지반공학회 (KGS) 2024 봄 학술발표회 우수 구두발표
Publications:
Oh, J. and Choo, H. (2024). Thermal Conductivity of Sand-Tire Rubber Mixtures According to Degree of Saturation: Effect of Hydrophobic Particle. Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society, 40(4), 7-18.
Oh, J. and Choo, H. (2025). Thermal conductivity of sand–tire rubber mixtures as a function of tire chip fraction, size ratio, void ratio and applied vertical stress. Acta Geotech. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-025-02597-9
b. Master Students
Soyoung Kim (김소영)
MS course
Topic:
Development of soft ground improvement material using biomass fly ash
Awards:
한국지반신소재공학회(KGSS) 2024 가을 학술발표회 우수 논문상
Publications:
Jungwoo Kim (김정우)
MS course
Topic:
Engineering properties of clay ground according to temperature changes
Awards:
한국지반신소재공학회(KGSS) 2024 가을 학술발표회 우수 논문상
Publications:
Byunghwi Ryu (류병휘)
MS course
Topic:
Engineering properties of binary mixtures according to loading
Awards:
한국지반신소재공학회(KGSS) 2024 가을 학술발표회 우수 논문상
Publications:
Bosung Choi (최보성)
MS course
Topic:
Measurement of the specific resistance value according to the type of soil
Awards:
대한토목학회 (KSCE) 2024 CONVENTION 우수 발표상
Publications:
Wooseok Choi (최우석)
MS course
Topic:
TBD
Awards:
Publications:
Taehoon Lim (임태훈)
MS course
Topic:
TBD
Awards:
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Chan Kim (김찬)
MS course
Topic:
Evaluation on the reduction of lateral stress of soil by auxetic geosynthetic
Awards:
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Noeul Kim (김노을)
MS course
Topic:
TBD
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c. Alumni
전완우, M.S. (2021.02) - 이산엔지니어링
이길재, M.S. (2021.08) - 한국도로공사
류병욱, M.S. (2021.08) - Ph.D student, Texas Tech University
서예니, M.S. (2023.02) - 유신엔지니어링
고효정, M.S. (2024.08) - Ph.D student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
조용훈, M.S. (2025.02) - 롯데건설
d. Undergraduate Research Students
Topic:
TBD
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