Sung-Woo Moon currently works at the Department of Civil Engineering, at Nazarbayev University. He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). In addition, he holds a Professional Engineer license in Civil Engineering in the U.S. Before NU, he worked at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. His research areas of interest are divided into three geotechnical engineering topics: computational geomechanics, geotechnical and geophysical site characterization, and natural hazard assessment and mitigation.