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Master Student in Civil and Environmental Engineering
I am Seunghwan Lee. I recently completed my undergraduate studies at UNIST in Civil, Urban, Earth and Environmental Engineering, and I am about to begin a master's in geotechnical engineering at KAIST, in Professor Gye-Chun Cho's GeoSystem Lab. My path here was not linear. I began at Konkuk University in 2020, briefly moved to Industrial Engineering, and kept returning to the same questions. Military service made those questions concrete. I served as a facility engineer in a maintenance unit of the Republic of Korea Air Force, mostly handling routine repairs and upkeep. During that time, I worked at the recovery site of the 2023 Yecheon landslide and saw the consequences of slope failure directly. That experience turned my interest toward geotechnical engineering. After discharge, I transferred to UNIST and joined the SSG Lab under Professor Jongmuk Won, where I worked on two projects in slope stability and numerical analysis. In early 2026, I spent time as a visiting researcher at the GELA Lab at KAIST under Professor Tae-Hyuk Kwon, where hands-on experimental work deepened my interest in how soil behavior is measured and modeled — the question I now carry into my graduate work. What draws me to geotechnical engineering is uncertainty. Soil is heterogeneous and resistant to clean prediction, yet the infrastructure we depend on rests on our ability to characterize it. Narrowing that gap — between how the ground actually behaves and how well we can describe it — is the problem I want to work on, and the direction I hope to pursue in Professor Cho's lab.
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MS, Civil and Environmental Engineering, KAIST (2026-2028) -Academic Advisor: Full Professor. Gye-Chun Cho
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BS, Civil Urban Earth and Environmental Engineering, UNIST (2024-2026) -Attended Class especially for Civil and Environmental Engineering
-Transferred in 2024(from Konkuk Univ(Seoul), Industrial Engineering, Class of 2020), Class of 2022
-Academic Advisor: Associate Professor. Young joo Lee
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Hanyoung High School, Seoul (2017-2020)
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