Biography
Prof. Kyoung Sun Moon
Prof. Kyoung Sun Moon
Yale University, USA
Biography: 
Kyoung Sun Moonis Associate Professor at Yale University School of Architecture. He received his B.S. from Seoul National University and an M.Arch. and an M.S.C.E. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Yale faculty, Dr. Moon taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in Chicago and the Republic of Korea Navy. Educated as both an architect and engineer, Dr. Moon’s primary research area is integration between the art and science/technology of architecture, with a focus on tall buildings. His articles on this area have appeared in many scholarly journals including The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, Engineering Structures, Journal of Architectural Engineering, Architectural Science Review, Journal of Urban Technology,and International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development to name a few. Dr. Moon is a licensed architect in the U.S., and a member of the American Institute of Architects, American Society of Civil Engineers Committee on Tall Buildings, and Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Expert Peer Review Committee. He is a deputy editor of the International Journal of High-Rise Buildings andan editorial board member of other research journals.