Tae-Hyuk Kwon is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science of Technology. He earned a PhD, M.Sc and B.Sc all from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His main research areas are in energy and sustainable geotechnology as well as coupled thermos-hydro-chemo-electro-biological processes in porous media and particulate materials. He was awarded Best Paper wards from the Korean Geotechnical Society and has authored several articles and presented at worldwide conferences. He has also earned one patent.