Dr. In-Mo Lee received his B.S. degree (with honors) in Civil Engineering from Seoul National University, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geotechnical Engineering from Ohio State University. He has been a professor of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering at Korea University since 1988. Dr. Lee's main research area is tunnelling and underground structure-related Geomechanics. He has published more than 300 papers in international and domestic journals as well as in conference proceedings.He has also delivered numerous keynote, invited, special, and theme lectures worldwide.Dr. Lee is currently the director of Institute of Underground Space Technology at Korea University. He served as the president of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association from May, 2006 to April, 2008 and was the president of International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) from 2010-2012.