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Lifetime Members

A Special Acknowledgement To:
Professor Yong-Sik Cho
CERF Lifetime Member

We are proud to acknowledge Professor Yong-Sik Cho as a Lifetime Member
of the Coastal Education & Research Foundation. Professor Cho, YongSik received his bachelors and masters degrees from Hanyang University
in February 1981 and August 1988 respectively, and his Ph.D. from the
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Cornell University in
January, 1995. The title of the thesis is "Numerical Simulations of Tsunami
Propagation and Run-up" (Advisor: Professor Philip L.-F. Liu).
He had continuously worked at Cornell University as a Post-Doctoral
Associate after graduation. From March of 1997, he had been employed
as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at Sejong University and then moved to Hanyang University
in March, 2000. From February 2003 to January 2005, he had served as
the Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
Hanyang University. Professor Cho has served as the Director of Innovative
Global Construction Leader Education Center, a government enterprises
sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, and the
Chair of Graduate Studies of the Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering since 2006.
Professor Cho has published 52 journal papers in prominent international

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journals registered in Science Citation Index such as Coastal Engineering,
the Journal of Coastal Research, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the Journal
of Hydraulic Research, Physics of Fluids, the Journal of Geophysical Research,
the Journal of Engineering Mechanics, and Ocean Engineering. He has also
published 120 papers in domestic journals and about 360 proceedings in
international and domestic conferenc