Dr. Koh is a Vice President of the
Dongbu Engineering Co. Ltd. He was born on August 2, 1956 in Seoul,
Korea. He and his wife have a son with his wife, no grandchildren,
yet.
He got his Ph.D. on water resources engineering from
Seoul National University in 1989. Afterward, he conducted a
research on the application of coastal model to simulate the flow
velocity at the closing gap of embankment at the Seamangem Land
Reclamation Project, one of the world largest land reclamation
projects, still undergoing in Korea, for his post-doctoral study at
Seoul National University during 1989-1992. In 1992, he became an
invited professor of the Chungbuk National University. Afterward, he
joined the Korea Water Resources Corporation (K-water) in 1995 and
was involved in the national project to develop the WAMIS (Water
Resources Management Information Systems) from the beginning stage
in 1997 until the system operation was transferred to the MLTM
(Ministry of Land, Transportation, and Maritime Affairs) in 2006. He
developed the Water Resources Unit Map as a national standard water
information framework. He also conducted several national projects
as a team leader to develop the RIMGIS (River Information Management
Geographical Information System) and flood risk maps, while adopting
LIDAR technology into those projects, that was at a very early stage
at that time.
Above information systems are now inevitable
systems for water resources and flood disaster management in
engineering and academic fields as well as in the water resources
management authorities such as Han River Flood Control Office and
K-water. He served as the director of the Hydroinformatics Research
Center during 2005-2008 and the Water Resources Research Center
during 2010-2011, and the Executive Director of the K-water
Institute during 2012-2013. K-water institute has the roll of
research and technology development comprising the fields such as
water resources and quality management, water infrastructure, water
works and water quality inspection, green energy and policy for not
only K-water, but the Korean government also. During 2014-2015, he
contributed to the successful 7th World Water Forum as the Secretary
General of the Korea Water Forum. He has wide range of engineering
experience on water resources management through huge number of
research projects.
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