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Journals

>> Published

  1. Kim, J., Yi, S., Wang, Z. (2026). Dimensionality reduction can be used as a surrogate model for high-dimensional forward uncertainty quantification, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 111474.
  2. Kim, J., Yi, S., Wang, Z. (2026). A composition of simplified physics-based model with neural operator for trajectory-level seismic response predictions of structural systems, Structural Safety, 119, 102668.
  3. Lee S., Kim, M., Yi, S. (2026). Two-step algorithmic adaptive particle filter for system identification of sudden structural damage, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, 12, 1.
  4. Yi, S., Kim, T. (2025). Defining recoverability from system-reliability-based disaster resilience analysis perspective, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 105862
  5. Yi, S., Taflanidis, A., Toofani Movaghar, P., Galasso, C. (2025). Impact of structural information fidelity on reduced-order model development for regional risk assessment. Structural Safety, 116, 102602.
  6. Taflanidis, A., Aakash, B.S., Yi, S., Conte, J.P. (2025). Surrogate-aided Bayesian Calibration with adaptive learning strategies, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 237, 113014
  7. Zsarnóczay et al. (2025). An open-source simulation platform to support and foster research collaboration in natural hazards engineering, Frontiers in Built Environment 11: 1590479. [SimCenter Marker Paper]
  8. Kim, T., Yi, S. Kim, J. H., Byun, J.E. (2025). Disaster resilience analysis framework for lifeline networks: integrating reliability, redundancy, and recoverability. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 123, 105436.
  9. Yi, S., and Taflanidis A. (2025). Multi-output stochastic emulation with applications to seismic response correlation estimation. Structural Safety, 102578.
  10. Luo, X., Nandurdikar, V., Yi, S., Revell, A., Fourtakas, G., Harish, A.B. (2025). Framework for uncertainty quantification of wave–structure interaction in a flume. Computational Particle Mechanics, 1-25.
  11. Lim, S., Yi, S., Kim, H., and Song, J. (2025). System-reliability-based disaster resilience analysis of cable-stayed bridge under tank truck fire hazards, ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, 11(1), 04025001.
  12. Yi, S., Taflanidis, A. (2024). Stochastic emulation with enhanced partial- and no-replication strategies for seismic response distribution estimation, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 53(7), 2354-2381.
  13. Byun, J.E., Yi, S. (2024). Anti-price-gouging law is neither good nor bad in itself: a proposal of narrative numeric method for transdisciplinary social discourses. npj Natural Hazards, 1(1), 4.
  14. Kim, T., Yi, S. (2024). Accelerated system-reliability-based disaster resilience analysis for structural systems. Structural Safety, 109, 102479.
  15. Oh, S., Yi, S., Wang, Z. (2024). Long‐range Ising model for regional‐scale seismic risk analysis. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics. 53(12)
  16. Kim, J., Yi, S., J. Song. (2024). Active learning-based optimization of structures under stochastic excitations with first-passage probability constraints, Engineering Structures, 307, 117873
  17. Kim, J., Yi, S., Park, J., Kim, T. (2024). Efficient system-reliability-based disaster resilience analysis of structures using importance sampling. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 150(11), 04024081.
  18. Yi, S., Taflanidis, A. (2023). Computationally efficient adaptive design of experiments for global metamodeling through integrated error approximation and multi-criteria search strategies, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 149(8): 04023050.
  19. Yi, S., Kim, T. (2023). System‐reliability‐based disaster resilience analysis for structures considering aleatory uncertainties in external loads. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 52(15), 4939-4963.
  20. Kim, J., Yi, S., Song, J. (2023). Estimation of first-passage probability under stochastic wind excitations by active-learning-based heteroscedastic Gaussian process. Structural Safety 100: 102268.
  21. Yi, S., Song, J. (2021). First-passage probability estimation by Poisson branching process model. Structural Safety. Vol. 90, 102027.
  22. Yi, S., Wang, Z., Song, J. (2019). Gaussian mixture-based equivalent linearization method (GM-ELM) for fragility analysis of structures under nonstationary excitations, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. Vol. 48(10), 1195–1214.
  23. Yi, S., Song, J. (2018). Particle filter-based monitoring and prediction of spatiotemporal corrosion using successive measurements of structural responses. Sensors, Vol. 18(11), 3909.
  24. Yi, S., Wang, Z., Song, J. (2018). Bivariate Gaussian mixture based equivalent linearization method (GM-ELM) for stochastic seismic analysis of nonlinear structures. Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. Vol. 47(3), 678–696.

>> Accepted/In Press

  1. Choi B., Yi, S., Kim, T. Seismic structural response and loss estimation for dense urban districts using neural network parameterized gaussian process, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics

Conference Presentations (Selected)

  1. Yi, S., Taflanidis, A. (2025), Multi-output stochastic emulation for predicting correlated aleatoric uncertainty, 14th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR’25), June 1-6, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  2. Kim.T, Yi. S, Song, J. (2025), Bayesian filter and smoother for joint input-state estimation of hysteretic structures 14th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR’25), June 1-6, Los Angeles, CA, USA [Received Student Recognition Award]
  3. Yi, S., Zsarnoczay, A., Aakash B.S., Giovanis, D., Cetiner, B., McKenna, F., Taciroglu E., Probabilistic Imputation of Building Inventories for Regional Risk Assessment, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2025 (EMI 2025), May 27-30, Anaheim, CA, USA.
  4. Yi, S., Toofani Movaghar, P., Taflanidis A, Galasso C. (2024), Influence of structural information fidelity in seismic fragility estimations of reduced-order models, International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems (IFIP WG 7.5 2022), August 19-21, Berkeley, CA, USA
  5. Yi, S., Taflanidis, A. (2024), Addressing correlation in stochastic emulation of seismic response, International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems (IFIP WG 7.5 2022), August 19-21, Berkeley, CA, USA [link]
  6. Kim, T., Yi, S. (2024), Development of recoverability index for structural systems from a perspective of perspective on system-reliability-based disaster resilience analysis, International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems (IFIP WG 7.5 2022), August 19-21, Berkeley, CA, USA [link]
  7. Yi, S., Zsarnóczay, A., Aakash, B.S., Giovanis, D., Cetiner, B., McKenna, F. (2024), Statistical imputation of missing building inventory and its impact on regional seismic risk estimation, 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024), June 30-July 5, Milan, Italy
  8. Zhao, J., Yi, S. Taflanidis, A. (2024), Enhancing the efficiency of earthquake rupture forecasting models with adaptive importance sampling in regional seismic risk assessment, 18th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (WCEE2024), June 30-July 5, Milan, Italy
  9. Yi, S., Ding, F., Taflanidis, A., Kareem, A. (2024), Gaussian process surrogate modeling of wind pressure statistics of two adjacent buildings, Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference (EMI/PMC 2024), May 28-31, Chicago, IL
  10. Ding, F. Yi, S., Taflanidis, A., Kareem, A. (2023), Database-enabled surrogate-assisted investigation on the interference effects of two adjacent buildings, 16th International Conference on Wind Engineering (ICWE16), August 27-31, Florence, Italy
  11. Yi, S., Taflanidis, A. (2023), Stochastic kriging with enhanced partial replication strategy for seismic response estimation, The 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), 8 pages, July 9-13, Dublin, Ireland
  12. Kim, J. Yi, S. Song, J. (2023), Active learning-based structural design optimization under constraints on first-passage probability, The 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), 8 pages, July 9-13, Dublin, Ireland
  13. Aakash, B.S., Yi, S., Taflanidis, A. (2023), Efficient Bayesian posterior sampling aided by kriging surrogate model., ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2023), June 6-9, Atlanta, Georgia.
  14. Yi, S., Taflanidis, A. (2023), Stochastic emulation of seismic structural response using enhanced partial replication strategy, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2023), June 6-9, Atlanta, USA
  15. Yi, S., Papakonstantinoub, K.G., Andriotis, C.P., Song, J. (2022), Appraisal and mathematical properties of fragility analysis methods, The 13th International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability (ICOSSAR 2021-2022), 8 pages, September 13-17, Shanghai, China.
  16. Lim, S., Yi , S., Kim H.J., and Song J. (2022), Fire resilience evaluation of cable-stayed bridges through reliability-redundancy analysis, The 13th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR 2021-2022), 8 pages, Sep 13-17, Shanghai, China
  17. Yi, S., Aakash, B.S., Nair A.S., Arduino P., Zsarnóczay, A., McKenna F. (2022), Sensitivity analysis and Bayesian calibration of a constitutive soil model using quoFEM, OpenSees Days 2022 Eurasia, 10 pages, July 7-8, Turin, Italy
  18. Yi, S., Taflanidis, A. (2022), Efficient adaptive design of experiments methods for global surrogate modeling based on approximated mean squared error and multi-criteria search technique, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2022), May 31-June 2, Baltimore, USA
  19. Kim, J, Yi, S., Song, J. (2022), Development of active learning-based surrogate method for estimating reliability of stochastic wind-excited systems, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2022), May 31-June 2, Baltimore, USA
  20. Yi, S., Taflanidis, A. (2021), Multicriteria searching-based adaptive design of experiments for global Gaussian process modeling, Mechanistic Machine Learning and Digital Twins for Computational Science, Engineering & Technology (MMLDT-CSET 2021), September 26-29, San Diego, USA
  21. Yi, S., and Song, J. (2021), First-passage probability estimation of a vibratory system based on a Poisson branching process model, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2021), May 25-28, New York, USA
  22. Yi, S., Wang, Z., and Song, J. (2019), Stochastic fragility analysis of MDOF systems using Gaussian mixture-based equivalent linearization method (GM-ELM), 13th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP13), 8 pages, May 26–30, Seoul, Korea. [Received CERRA Student Recognition Award]
  23. Yi, S., Wang, Z., and Song, J. (2018), Stochastic seismic analysis by bivariate Gaussian mixture-based equivalent linearization method, 6th International Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management (6ISRERM), 6 pages, May 31–June 1, Singapore.
  24. Yi, S., Wang, Z., and Song, J. (2018), Nonlinear stochastic dynamic analysis for PBEE by Gaussian mixture-based equivalent linearization methods, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2018), 4 pages, May 29–June 1, Cambridge, USA. [First place in ASCE EMI/PMC student competition]
  25. Yi, S. and Song, J. (2017), Probabilistic diagnosis and prognosis of steel plate corrosion by particle filter assimilation of force-displacement observations, 8th International Conference on Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (SHMII8), 10 pages, December 5–8, Brisbane, Australia.
  26. Yi, S., Li, Z., Song, J., and Yun, G. (2016), Enhanced Monte Carlo simulation-based spatial reliability analysis of RC plate subject to chloride-induced corrosion, Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management 13 (PSAM13), 8 pages, October 2–7, Seoul, Korea.