People
Principal Investigator
Dr. Ji Yun Lee
Associate Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Washington State University
2001 Grimes Way, PACCAR 158
Pullman, WA 99164
Email: jiyun.lee@wsu.edu
Phone: 509-335-3018
Dr. Ji Yun Lee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Washington State University (WSU). Prior to joining WSU in 2017, Dr. Lee served as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (2016-2017) and a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering at the University of Central Florida (2015-2016). She received her Ph.D. (2015) in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, her M.S. (2011) in Civil Engineering from Stanford University, and her B.S. (2009) in Architectural Engineering from Korea University.
Dr. Lee’s research experience and interests lie in the general field of risk-informed decision-making for civil infrastructure performance and integrity, with specific interests ranging from stochastic models of natural hazards to structural reliability and risk assessment, optimization, human decision-making, and infrastructure/community resilience. Dr. Lee’s exceptional contributions to research have garnered significant recognition, including the 2023 NSF CAREER Award, the 2022 Google Research Scholar Award, and the National Academy of Engineering US Frontiers of Engineering member. More detailed information on Dr. Ji Yun Lee can be found here.
Current Members
Graduate Students
Vishnupriya Jonnalagadda
v.jonnalagadda@wsu.edu
PhD Candidate (Fall 2020 – Present)
M.S., Texas A&M University
B.S., GITAM
Research Topics: Transportation Resilience; Uncertainty Propagation
Abdel-Aziz Sanad
abdel-aziz.sanad@wsu.edu
PhD Student (Spring 2023 – Present)
M.S., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
B.S., University of Jordan
Research Topics: Physics- and Data-driven Hurricane Vulnerability Assessment; Multi-hazard Analysis
Nasimeh Rashidi
nasimeh.rashidi@wsu.edu
PhD Student (Spring 2022 – Present)
M.S., University of Tehran
B.S., Sadjad Higher Education Institute
Research Topics: Dynamic Wildfire Risk Assessment through Deep Learning
Former Group Members
Former Postdoctoral Scholars and Graduate Students
Fangjiao Ma
Ph.D. (Dec. 2023)
Currently Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO)
Research Topics: Wildfire Risk and Resilience Assessment; Homeowner Proactive Actions
Jie Zhao
Ph.D. (Aug. 2022)
Currently Engineer at Verisk Analytics
Research Topics: Supply Chain Resilience; Catastrophe Insurance
Seyed Hooman Ghasemi
Postdoctoral Scholar (Feb. 2020 – Jan. 2021)
Currently Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
Research Topics: Structural Reliability; Transportation Resilience
Stanley Kouassi
M.S. (Dec, 2019) with Fulbright Scholarship
Currently Project Manager at Louis Berger International
Research Topics: Life-Cycle Assessment Under Uncertainty
Former Undergraduate Researchers
- Jane Gorski
- Nathan Dickerson