Associate Professor | CEE
PACCAR 158
jiyun.lee@wsu.edu
509-335-3018
Research Site
Curriculum Vitae
Technical Interests
- Natural hazard modeling and simulation
- Structural and infrastructure risk assessment
- AI and data-driven risk modeling
- Decision science and behavioral modeling
- Community and systems-level resilience
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 – Aug 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
Teaching
- Decision-Making for Sustainable and Resilient Civil Infrastructure
- Probability and Statistical Models in Engineering
- Principles and Computational Simulation for Natural Hazards
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
Awards
- ASCE State of the Art of Civil Engineering Award, 2026
- PacTrans Outstanding Researcher Award, 2025
- WSU CEE Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award, 2024
- NSF CAREER Award, 2023
- Google Research Scholar Award, 2022
- NAE’s 2021 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium Participant, 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 the University of Pennsylvania, 2006 – 2007
- Honors Scholarship, Korea University, 200