Research Interests

• Extreme precipitation

• Physical mechanism (especially at the synoptic scale), future projection, AI-based weather prediction

Employments

• Oct 2024 - Present : Research Assistant Professor. Seoul National University, South Korea

• Mar 2021 - Sep 2024 : Research Professor. Yonsei University, South Korea

• Mar 2019 - Feb 2021 : Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Visiting Research

• Oct - Dec 2022, Feb - Apr 2023 : University of Melbourne, Australia (Co-worked with Prof. Andrew D. King)

Education

• Mar 2014 - Feb 2019 : Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea

Ph.D. (major : Climate Dynamics, Advisor : Prof. Seung-Ki Min)

Thesis : Understanding global hydroclimatic effects of explosive volcanic eruptions

• Mar 2009 - Feb 2014 : Kwangwoon University, South Korea

B.S. (major : Environmental Engineering, minor : Chemical Engineering)

Research Project

• Sejong Science Fellowship (Principal Investigator, Sep 2021 - Feb 2026) : An integrated understanding of past changes and future projection for Arctic amplification

Awards

• Young atmospheric scientist award (Korean Meteorological Society, Oct 2021)

Coferences / Workshops / Seminars

AI Climate Modeling Joint Workshop (13th Jan 2026, KIST): High-resolution, probabilistic precipitation downscaling using a residual corrective diffusion model

AGU 2025 (17th Dec 2025, New Orleans): No significant weakening of East Asian summer extreme precipitation under net-zero CO2 emissions

SNU SEES seminar (11th Dec 2025, SNU): East Asian summer extreme precipitation responses to net-zero CO2 emissions

BACO 2025 (Pusan): No significant weakening of East Asian summer extreme precipitation under net-zero CO2 emissions scenario

KMS 2025 Spring (Seoul): Extreme precipitation and associated synoptic-scale weather system responses to CO2 emission reduction

9th GEWEX (10th July 2024, Sapporo): Response of Indian summer monsoon precipitation to carbon dioxide removal: subseasonal evolution and regional characteristics

Hanyang University BK21 seminar (11th Oct 2023, Ansan) : Hysteretic behavior of sub-seasonal/daily Indian summer monsoon precipitation to carbon dioxide removal

AOGS 2023 (4th Aug 2023, Singapore): Constraining global to continental future extreme precipitation intensification 

AOGS 2023 (1st Aug 2023, Singapore): Hysteretic behavior of global to regional monsoon area under CO2 ramp-up and ramp-down

Korean Meteorological Society (KMS)

The Society of Korean Climate Change Research

Asian Conference on Meteorology (ACM)

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Joint workshop on the A3 foresight program

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

European Geosciences Union (EGU)

International ad hoc Detection and Attribution Group (IDAG)

International Meeting on Statistical Climatology (IMSC)

World Climate Research Program (WCRP)/Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC)

International Symposium on the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

Climate and Ocean - Variability, Predictability, and Change (CLIVAR)

Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX)

International Conference on Earth System Modeling (ICESM)