He is the vice-director of the KOCED Geotechnical Centrifuge Center. At present, he is also the executive director of the Korean Tunneling Association (KTA) and a KTA representative for the International Tunneling Association (ITA). Dr. Cho graduated from Korea University (B.Sc., 1994), and completed graduate studies at Korea University (M.Sc., 1996) and Georgia Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 2001). He taught at Pennsylvania State University (2001–2002). He has authored more than 130 publications in international journals and conference proceedings.⇓