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Professor
Professor
Yeonjoo Kim
Yonsei Univ., 2015 - Present
Korea Environment Institute (KEI), Senior Research Scientist, 2010 - 2015
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, NPP Fellow, 2009 - 2010
Harvard Univ., Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006 - 2009
Univ. of Connecticut (Ph.D.), 2006
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (S.M.), 2003
Yonsei Univ. (B.S.), 2001
Researchers and Students
Researchers and Students
Yeonwoo Choi
Research Professor
Ph.D., Pusan Nat'l Univ.
Climate dynamics and climate change
Satbyeol Shin
Research Professor
[NRF Postdoc Fellow]
Ph.D., Univ. of Florida
Hydrologic modelling and data assimilation
Hocheol Seo
Research Professor
[NRF Postdoc Fellow]
Ph.D./M.S./B.S., Yonsei Univ.
Arctic fire and the ecohydrologic systems
Jungho Seo
Postdoc
Ph.D./M.S., Yonsei Univ.
Snow land data assimilation with LSM and AI
Jaehyeong Lee
Graduate (Ph.D.)
[NRF Ph.D. Fellow]
M.S., Yonsei Univ.
Hydrologic impacts of climate change over East Asia
Vonihanitrinaina D. Z. Andriamanantena R.
Graduate (Ph.D.)
M.S., Seoul Nat'l Univ.
GHGs emissions from tropical streams
Hyunyoung Oh
Graduate (Integrated)
[NRF Ph.D. Fellow]
B.S., Yonsei Univ.
Water and carbon modeling for wetland ecosystems
Eva Rivas Pozo
Graduate (Ph.D.)
M.S., Tech. Univ. of Madrid
Wetland hydrology and biogeochemistry
Gyobeom Kim
Graduate (Ph.D.)
[Researcher in KEI]
M.S., Yonsei Univ.
Environmental impact assessment
Ahmad Priyo Sambodo
Graduate (Ph.D.)
[Hyundai Fellow]
M.S., Prince of Songkla Univ.
Ecohydrology of tropical mangrove
Guhyup Kang
Graduate (Ph.D.)
M.S., Yonsei Univ.
Drought with process-based modelling
Min Ki Hong
Post-Master
M.S./B.S., Yonsei Univ.
Flood and inundation prediction with AI
Jisung Lee
Graduate (Integrated)
B.S., Yonsei Univ.
Process-based
water and carbon modeling
Younhong Min
Graduate (M.S.)
B.S., Sejong Univ.
Differentiable hydrologic modeling
Jaeho Park
Graduate (Integrated)
B.S., Yonsei Univ.
Physics-informed AI for hydrologic modeling
Jeoh Shin
Graduate (M.S.)
B.S., Korea Military Academy
Hydrologic-Hydraulic modeling
Hamin Park
Undergraduate Intern
B.S., Yonsei (expected)
Lion Kim
Undergraduate Intern
B.S., Yonsei (expected)
Seokwon Chi
Undergraduate Intern
B.S., Sejong (expected)
Alumni
Alumni
Graduate Students
Graduate Students
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Jungho Seo (2026) Postdoc, HECL, Yonsei
Global snow water equivalent using machine learning and enhanced land surface modeling with data fusion
Manas Ranjan Panda (2026) Postdoc, University of Cambridge, UK
Sectoral water use assessment using machine learning and land surface modeling
Suyeon Choi (2025) Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI-M), Hamburg, Germany
Physics-informed artificial intelligence for predicting precipitation and streamflow with reservoir operation
Hocheol Seo (2025) Postdoc, HECL, Yonsei / Lecturer, Kyonggi Univ.
Integrating process-based modeling with satellite-based data and deep learning for high-latitude wildfire simulation
Shafqat Mehboob (2023) Postdoc, University of Manitoba, Canada
Projecting hydrological variations and water scarce regions in the snow-covered Upper Indus Basin, Pakistan
M.S.
M.S.
Min Ki Hong (2026) Post-Master, HECL, Yonsei
Forecast uncertainty in ensemble hydrologic-hydraulic flood inundation modeling
Hyebin Kim (2026) K-Water
Quantifying CO2 and CH4 emissions from multipurpose dams in Korea
JongHyeok Lee (2025) Ph.D. student, Univ. of California at Irvine, CA, USA
Two-dimensional global water stress assessment using CLM5
Guhyup Kang (2025) Ph.D. student, HECL, Yonsei
Multi-index assessment of drought propagation and recovery in the Yeongsan-gang River and Seomjin-gang River Basins
Heechul Kim (2025) Saman Corp.
Impact of domain size on radar-based rainfall nowcasting models
Soyoung Sohn (2023) Ph.D. student, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Urbanization-induced changes in growing season length and carbon storage
Yeri Kim (2022) Hyundai Motor Group
Impact of SMAP surface soil moisture data assimilation on hydrologic prediction with WRF-Hydro
Haewon Chi (2022) Ph.D. student, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
Impact of GRACE assimilation on hydrologic variation with CLM5-BGC
Kyeungwoo Cho (2020) Ph.D. student, Georgia Institute of Technology at Atlanta, GA, USA
Improving streamflow prediction with WRF-Hydro modeling system using a machine-learning algorithm
Heey Jin Kim (2020) Environmental Analyst, International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group at DC, USA
Projecting future global drought risk with climate scenarios and socioeconmic indicators
Jaehyeong Lee (2019) Ph.D. student, HECL, Yonsei
Streamflow drought assessment over the Korean Peninsula with WRF-Hydro
Hocheol Seo (2019) Ph.D. / Postdoc, HECL, Yonsei
Data assimilation of Leaf Area Index for ecohydrolgic predictions and drought assessments in East Asia
Jeongbin Kim (2018) Startup
Analysis of ecohydrological impacts of climate and land-use change in Jeju Island with Ecosystem Demography Model
Postdoctoral Researchers / Research Professors
Postdoctoral Researchers / Research Professors
JiHyun Kim (2018 - 2025) Associate Professor, Kyung Hee Univ.
Mahdi Panahi (2023 - 2024) Researcher, Stockholm Univ./KTH, Sweden
Abrar Faiz (2023 - 2024) Professor, Northeast Agricultural Univ., China
Myoung-Jin Um (2015 - 2019) Associate Professor, Kyonggi Univ.
Zhan Wang (2017 - 2018) Research Scientist, Finland Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Post-Master's Researchers
Post-Master's Researchers
Kyungmin Sung (2018 - 2019) Assistant Professor, Kyonggi Univ.
Hyesun Park (2015 - 2017) Researcher, Seoul Energy Corporation
Ji Hee Kim (2016)
Visiting Professors / Scientists
Visiting Professors / Scientists
Eunjee Lee (2022 Fall, 2023 Fall, 2024 Summer, 2025 Fall) NRF BP Int'l Fellow
Senior Research Scientist at NASA/GSFC & UMBC, DC, USA
Sayed Bateni (2023 Summer) Yonsei Frontier Program for Outstanding Scholars
Professor at University of Hawaii, HI, USA
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