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Professor,  Researchers, Students and Alumni
Professor
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Yeonjoo Kim
Professor

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

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Researchers and Students
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JiHyun Kim
Research Professor
​[NRF Sejong Fellow]
Ph.D., Boston Univ., USA
Arctic ecosystem and hydrology
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Yeonwoo Choi
Research Professor
Ph.D., Pusan Nat'l Univ.
Climate dynamics and climate change
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Satbyeol Shin
Research Professor
​Ph.D., Univ. of Florida, USA

Hydrologic modelling and data assimilation
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Hocheol Seo
Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D./M.S./B.S., Yonsei Univ.
Arctic fire and the ecohydrologic systems 
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​Jaehyeong Lee
Graduate (Ph.D.)
[NRF Ph.D. Fellow]
 M.S., Yonsei Univ.
Hydrologic impacts of climate change over East Asia
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​Manas Panda
Graduate (Ph.D.)
M.S., IIT Kharagpur
​Global water resources and hydrology models
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Jungho Seo
Graduate (Ph.D.)
M.S., Yonsei Univ.
Snow land data assimilation with LSM and AI
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Hyunyoung Oh
Graduate (Integrated)
​[NRF Ph.D. Fellow]

B.S.​, Yonsei Univ.
Water and carbon modeling for wetland ecosystems
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Eva Rivas Pozo
Graduate (Ph.D.)
M.S., Tech. Univ. of Madrid
Wetland hydrology and biogeochemistry
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Gyobeom Kim
Graduate (Ph.D.)
[Researcher in KEI]
M.S.​, Yonsei Univ.
Environmental impact assessment
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JongHyeok Lee
Graduate (M.S.)
​B.S., Yonsei Univ.
Global water resources and hydroclimatology
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Guhyup Kang
Graduate (M.S.)
B.S., Dankook Univ.
Drought with process-based modelling
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Min Ki Hong
Graduate (Integrated)
​B.S., Yonsei Univ.
Flood and inundation prediction with AI
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Jisung Lee
Graduate (Integrated)
​B.S., Yonsei Univ.
Process-based
​water and carbon modeling
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Younhong Min
Intern
​B.S., Sejong Univ.
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Jaewoo Lee
Undergraduate Intern
​B.S., Yonsei ​(expected)
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Sua Lee
Undergraduate Intern
​B.S., Yonsei ​(expected)
Alumni
Graduate Students 

Ph.D. 


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. 

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

Mahdi Panahi (2023 - 2024) Researcher, Stockholm Univ./KTH, Sweden
Abrar Faiz (2023 - 2024) Professor, Northeast Agricultural Univ., China
Myoung-Jin Um (2015 - 2019) Assistant Professor, Kyonggi Univ. at Suwon
Zhan Wang (2017 - 2018) Research Scientist, Finland Meteorological Institute (FMI)
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Post-Master's Researchers
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Kyungmin Sung
(2018 - 2019) ​Senior Research Scientist, Korea Environment Institute (KEI)
Hyesun Park (2015 - 2017) Researcher, Seoul Energy Corporation
​Ji Hee Kim (2016) 

Visiting Professors / Scientists

Eunjee Lee 
(2022 Fall, 2023 Fall, 2024 Summer) 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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