12/1/2011
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Young Joo Lee receives a student award at the International Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association's international conference.
CEE Ph.D. student Young Joo Lee was named an inaugural recipient of the International Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association Student Recognition Award at the 11th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering in Zurich, Switzerland, in August.
One of only three students to receive the international award, Lee was recognized for his paper, “Risk quantification of fatigue-induced sequential failures by branch-and-bound method employing system reliability bounds,” coauthored by his adviser, Associate Professor Junho Song. The paper proposes a new method to perform system reliability analysis for fatigue-induced sequential failure of structures. Other recipients were Eun Jeong Cha of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Mahalia Miller of Stanford University.
Lee earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering at Seoul National University in South Korea. He began his doctoral studies in structural reliability at the University of Illinois in fall 2006. He is a member of Song's research group, the Structural System Reliability Group. His research interests are in structural reliability, network reliability, computer-aided risk analysis, and stochastic analysis.
"I deeply appreciate my adviser for his passionate advising and constant support," Lee said.
Student award winners (with plaques, from left) Young Joo Lee of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Eun Jeong Cha of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Mahalia Miller of Stanford University.