Research
Overview / Projects
Overview / Projects
Eco-Hydrological Prediction with Land Surface Models (LSMs) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Land Data Assimilation with the Satellite RS
Precipitation Nowcasting with Radar
Extreme Hydroclimate Events for Flood and Drought
Land-Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions
Terrestrial Ecosystem Modeling and Observations
(Participant) Development of dynamic dam operation technology for flood damage reduction, Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI) / Ministry of Environment, 2026-2030
(Participant) Citizen driven climate change adaptation by policy evaluation using citizen-socio-economic-environmental data, Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI) / Ministry of Environment, 2025-2028
(Subrecipient PI) Reinventing climate change adaptation with the Climate Resilience Early Warning System (CREWSnet), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2024-2027
(Participant) Autonomous evolutionary AI-based smart sensing platform for early detection and proactive response to levee failures, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2024-2028
(PI) Global and regional water model integrating Al and physics for future water resources risk management, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2024-2029
(Co-PI) Developing a severity-based emergency response protocol for water shortage using linked operations of water supply facilities, Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI) / Ministry of Environment, 2023-2026
(Co-PI) Development of technology for optimal flood response and effect analysis reflecting watershed characteristics, Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI) / Ministry of Environment, 2023-2026
(PI) Estimation of carbon budget in wetland ecosystems, Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI) / Ministry of Environment, 2022–2026
(Co-PI) Integrated underground infrastructure maintenance package through AI-based defect video analysis and remaining service life prediction, Korea Technology and Information Promotion Agency (TIPA) / Ministry of SMEs and Startups, 2025
(PI) LSM-based seasonal forecasting skills of water/carbon cycles, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2022–2025
(PI) Fire prediction and impact assessment in Alaska with the integrated AI and process-based model, Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), 2022–2024
(PI) Improving the ecohydrological drought prediction and predicting drought impacts with using the machine learning and the land surface models over the Korean Peninsula and Asia, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2020–2024
(PI) Future change of ecohydrological droughts based on statistical downscaling and multiple land surface models, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2021-2023
(PI) Assessing the carbon-water-energy impacts of urban green infrastructure to mitigate climate risk for carbon neutral, Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, 2021–2022
(PI) Drought predictions with combining machine learning and process-based model, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2018–2020
(PI) Bottom-up model and data for climate change adaptation and mitigation in water, forest and ecosystem sectors, Korea Environment Institute (KEI) / Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI) / Ministry of Environment, 2018–2020
(PI) Understanding the arctic shrub expansion with the Ecosystem Demography Model, Korea Polar Research Institute (KOPRI), 2017–2019
(Participant) Earth system modeling for the pan-arctic regions, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2017–2020
(PI) Eco-hydrologic data assimilation and streamflow drought assessment in Korea, National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), 2015–2018
(PI) Eco-hydrologic data-model fusion to understand drought processes in East Asia, Korea Meteorological Institute (KMI) / Korea Meteorology Agency, 2015–2018
(PI) Indicators for the sustainable water use, Korea Environment Institute (KEI), 2015
(Participant) Climate change adaptation for watershed management, Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) / Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, 2015–2020
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