Jun-Whan Lee

Graduate Student Opportunity (Ph.D. or M.S.) in the COMPOUND Flood Lab at The University of Texas at Austin , within the Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering. The lab is seeking one motivated graduate student to join in Fall 2027 . Research interests include compound flooding , debris–structure–wave interactions , and/or flood risk assessment , with methods spanning numerical modeling , machine learning , and remote sensing . Applicants from Civil Engineering , Coastal Engineering , Ocean Engineering , Hydrology , Hydraulic Engineering , or related fields are encouraged. For Ph.D. applicants, a master’s degree is preferred. Helpful experience includes ADCIRC, Delft3D, SFINCS, OpenFOAM, MPM, PIML, GNNs, transformers, neural operators, remote sensing, high-performance computing, and software/workflows using LLMs. Funding is expected through a research assistantship and/or teaching assistantship . To apply, submit an application to the UT Austin graduate program in Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering by December 1 , choose EWRE or MUSE , and mention Jun-Whan Lee in your Statement of Purpose. Prospective students are also encouraged to email [email protected] with a CV and a short summary of relevant experience. More information about the lab and projects is available on the COMPOUND Flood Lab website.