Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
| Name | Byeongseong Choi |
| Professional Title | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| byeongsc AT kaist DOT ac DOT kr | |
| Location | Daehak-ro 291, W1-2 Building of Applied Engineering, Daejeon, Korea 34141 |
Professional Summary
Researcher specializing in probabilistic modeling, environmental sensing, and infrastructure risk analysis under uncertainty. Develops data-driven and physics-informed modeling frameworks that integrate machine learning with probabilistic methods for sensing-enabled risk assessment and prediction. Research focuses on urban and environmental systems, including environmental monitoring networks, building energy demand, seismic risk, and large-scale water systems.
Education
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2019 - 2023 Pittsburgh, PA
PhD
Carnegie Mellon University
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Major concentration: Advanced Infrastructure Systems (GPA: 4.00/4.00)
- Thesis: Urban temperature and electricity demand - probabilistic modeling and adaptive decision-making
- Advisors: Prof. Matteo Pozzi & Prof. Mario Bergés
- Developed an integrated framework for risk assessment of urban heat and their impacts on building energy use
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2015 - 2017 Seoul, Korea
MS
Seoul National University
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Major concentration: Structural reliability (GPA: 4.17/4.30)
- Thesis: Efficient simulation-based approaches for community-level probabilistic seismic risk assessment
- Advisor: Prof. Junho Song
- Developed computationally efficient algorithms for seismic loss estimation of spatially distributed structural systems at regioanl scale
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2009 - 2015 Seoul, Korea
BS
Seoul National University
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- GPA: 3.52/4.3
Experience
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2026 - current Daejeon, Korea
KAIST-KAERI InnoCORE Postdoctoral Fellow
Applied Science Research Institute, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and technology
- Development of an AX-based Intelligent Disaster Prevention Platform for Ultra-Safe SMR Construction Against Extreme External Hazards ()
- Probabilistic modeling of extreme climate and environmental hazards.
- Risk and resilience assessment of SMRs under extreme external events.
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2023 - 2026 Arlington, TX
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
- Enabling Smart Cities in Coastal Regions of Environmental and Industrial Change: Building Adaptive Capacity through Sociotechnical Networks on the Texas Gulf Coast (NSF#2231557)
- Modeling framework to optimally deploy a monitoring system for the air/water quality around the Corpus Christi Bay, Texas
- Mentored three students through the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program
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2019 - 2022 Pittsburgh, PA
Research Assistant
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- Project: SHADE - Surface Heat Assessment for Developed Environments (NSF #1664091)
- Developed probabilistic spatiotemporal models for rapid forecast of urban temperatures
- Investigated the impacts from urban heat into building energy consumption and value of weather information”
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2017 - 2018 Seoul, Korea
Associate Engineer
Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Project: West-coast Railroad (Construction Site #5)
- Worked as a engineering project manager
Awards
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2022 Bradford and Diane Smith Graduate Fellowship
College of Engineering
Competitive graduate fellowship awarded by the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
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2016 Best paper award
Korean Society of Civil Engineer
Best Paper Award presented at the 2016 Korean Society of Civil Engineers (KSCE) Convention.