- Associate Professor
Biography
Website
- SHAPE Lab — Simulation of Hazards, AI, People & Engineering Decisions
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Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015
- M.S., Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 2011
- B.S., Architectural Engineering (double major in Civil and Environmental Engineering), Korea University, 2009
Professional Experience
- Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Aug 2024 – Present
- Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Aug 2017 – 2024
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Aug 2016 – Jul 2017
- Visiting Faculty, Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering, University of Central Florida, Aug 2015 – Aug 2016
- Graduate Research Assistant, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Aug 2011 – Aug 2015
Awards
- PacTrans Outstanding Researcher Award, 2025
- WSU CEE Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award, 2024
- NSF CAREER Award, 2023
- Google Research Scholar Award, 2022
- National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers in Engineering, 2021
- ASCE SEI Codes and Standards Young Professional (CSAD-YP) Program Future Funds, 2018 – 2021
- ASCE ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) Fellow, 2019
- ASCE SEI Tier 1 Young Professional Scholarship, 2019
- Kwanjeong Educational Foundation Scholarship for Doctoral Research, 2011 – 2015
- Winner, ASCE/EMI Probabilistic Methods Committee Student Paper Competition, 2014
- Exchange Student Scholarship at University of Pennsylvania, 2006 – 2007
- Honors Scholarship, Korea University, 2004
Research Interests
- Engineering Decision Science
- Natural Hazard Modeling and Simulation
- AI-driven Simulation and Risk Analysis
- Infrastructure and Community Resilience
- Human Behavioral Modeling and Analysis
Teaching
- Principles and Computational Simulation for Natural Hazards
- Decision-Making for Sustainable and Resilient Civil Infrastructure
- Probability and Statistical Models in Engineering
Publications
See Ji Yun Lee’s publications on Google Scholar.