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Dr. Jo is an assistant professor in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Arizona. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1999, 2001) and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2013). Prior to starting his Ph.D. study, he has worked as a professional bridge engineer in the Seoyeong Engineering Co., Ltd., Korea in 2001~2007. He teaches the reinforced concrete structure design (CE335 & CE437/537) and advanced structural dynamics (EM634). His research interests are in the development of the next-generation of smart technologies for innovating the way our civil systems are monitored, protected, and rehabilitated; which include, but not limited to, structural health monitoring, wireless smart sensor networks, bio-inspired sensing technologies, computer vision-base sensing, structural damage identification, advanced functional materials, seismic retrofit and rehabilitation, earthquake/Wind/Bridge engineering, energy harvesting, full-scale dynamic testing.Show Less
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Courses
- SStatics
- ASDCAdvanced Structural Design in Concrete
- PCSPrestressed Concrete Structures
- SDCStructural Design in Concrete
- ESAElementary Structural Analysis
- ASDAdvanced Structural Dynamics
Grants
- Actively Managed Battery Degradation of IoT Wireless Sensors for Group Replacement
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$479.0K
Active - Robust Wireless Skin Sensor Networks for Long-Term Fatigue Crack Monitoring of Bridges, Phase l
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$105.0K
Active - Wind-Induced Structural Risk Monitoring System Development for SRP Power Substation and Transmission Structures
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$96.4K
- Wind-Induced Vibration Investigation and Mitigation for Jojoba Substation A-frame Structure
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$124.5K
- Flood Induced Bridge Scour Prediction Using Bio-Inspired Smart Sensor Network
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$326.0K
- Strain-Based Fatigue Crack Monitoring of Steel Bridges Using Wireless Elastomeric Skin Sensors
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$47.0K
Technologies / Patents
News
- Class of 2015: Apple's Doors Open for UA Grad
2015
Publications (71)
Recent
- Automatic control of AC bridge-based capacitive strain sensor interface for wireless structural health monitoring
2022
- Real-time generic target tracking for structural displacement monitoring under environmental uncertainties via deep learning
2022
- Structural Health Monitoring of Fatigue Cracks for Steel Bridges with Wireless Large-Area Strain Sensors
2022
- Long-term field monitoring of fatigue cracks for steel bridges with wireless large-area strain sensors
2022
- Investigation of textured sensing skin for monitoring fatigue cracks on fillet welds
2022
- Deep reinforcement learning for automated design of reinforced concrete structures
2021
- Monitoring impact damage in composites with large area sensing skins
2021
- Investigation of surface textured sensing skin for fatigue crack localization and quantification
2021
- Soft Elastomeric Capacitor for Angular Rotation Sensing in Steel Components
2021
- Multi-objective sensor placement optimization for structural response estimation under spatially varying dynamic loading of bridges
2021
- Experimental validation of textured sensing skin for fatigue crack monitoring
2021
- Convolutional neural networks for pavement roughness assessment using calibration-free vehicle dynamics
2020
- Flood-fragility analysis of instream bridges - consideration of flow hydraulics, geotechnical uncertainties, and variable scour depth
2020
- Human motion component and envelope characterization via wireless wearable sensors
2020
- Wireless soft elastomeric capacitor sensor network for long-term fatigue crack monitoring of steel bridges
2019
- Thin-Film Sensor for Fatigue Crack Sensing and Monitoring in Steel Bridges under Varying Crack Propagation Rates and Random Traffic Loads
2019
- Impact force localization for civil infrastructure using augmented Kalman Filter optimization
2019
- Flood fragility analysis of instream bridges
2018
- Sensing distortion-induced fatigue cracks in steel bridges with capacitive skin sensor arrays
2018
- Capacitance-based wireless strain sensor development
2018
- Heterogeneous data fusion for impact force identification in truss structure
2018
- Thin-film sensor for fatigue crack monitoring in steel bridges under varying crack growth rate and random traffic load
2018
- Development of wireless sensor node hardware for large-area capacitive strain monitoring
2018
- Dense capacitive sensor array for monitoring distortion-induced fatigue cracks in steel bridge
2018
- Next generation wireless smart sensors toward sustainable civil infrastructure
2017
- Model-Based Heterogeneous Data Fusion for Reliable Force Estimation in Dynamic Structures under Uncertainties
2017
- A robust signal processing method for quantitative high-cycle fatigue crack monitoring using soft elastomeric capacitor sensors
2017
- Advanced signal processing of sonar measurement for bridge scour monitoring
2017
- A large-area strain sensing technology for monitoring fatigue cracks in steel bridges
2017
- Practical application of RINO, a smartphone-based dynamic displacement sensing application for wind tunnel tests
2016
- Reference-Free Displacements for Condition Assessment of Timber Railroad Bridges
2016
- Multi-metric strain estimation at unmeasured locations of plate structures using augmented Kalman filter
2016
- Feasibility Test of Low-cost Sonar Sensors for Bridge Scour Monitoring
2016
- Simulating Sediment Transport around a Bridge Pier Using Open FOAM Software
2016
- Real-time image processing for non-contact monitoring of dynamic displacements using smartphone technologies
2016
- High-sensitivity strain visualization using electroluminescence technologies
2016
- Development of High-Sensitivity and Low-Cost Electroluminescent Strain Sensor for Structural Health Monitoring
2015
- Recent advances in wireless smart sensors for multi-scale monitoring and control of civil infrastructure
2015
- Multi-metric model-based structural health monitoring
2014
- Low-Latency Data Acquisition Hardware for Real-Time Wireless Sensor Applications
2014
- A wireless smart sensor network for automated monitoring of cable tension
2014
- Dynamic Assessment of Timber Railroad Bridges Using Displacements
2014
- A damage localization method based on the ‘jerk energy’
2014
- Develoment of high-sensitivity wireless strain sensor for structural health monitoring
2013
- Automated wireless monitoring system for cable tension using smart sensors
2013
- Feasibility of displacement monitoring using low-cost GPS receivers
2013
- Design and validation of high-precision wireless strain sensors for structural health monitoring of steel structures
2012
- Development and application of high-sensitivity wireless smart sensors for decentralized stochastic modal identification
2012
- Full-scale experimental validation of decentralized damage identification using wireless smart sensors
2012
- Preliminary study of low-cost GPS receivers for time synchronization of wireless sensor networks
2012
- Feasibility study of micro-wind turbines for powering wireless sensors on a cable-stayed bridge
2012
- Sensing Measurement Bridge monitoring using wireless smart sensors
2012
- Full-scale decentralized damage identification using wireless smart sensors
2011
- Decentralized Random Decrement Technique for Data Aggregation and System Identification in Wireless Smart Sensor Networks
2011
- Decentralized random decrement technique for efficient data aggregation and system identification in wireless smart sensor networks
2011
- Bio-inspired structural displacement monitoring strategy using low-cost GPS receivers: feasibility test
2011
- Hybrid wireless smart sensor network for full-scale structural health monitoring of a cable-stayed bridge
2011
- Automated cable tension monitoring using smart sensors
2011
- Decentralized bridge health monitoring using wireless smart sensors
2010
- Structural health monitoring of a cable-stayed bridge using smart sensor technology: deployment and evaluation
2010
- Development of high-sensitivity accelerometer board for structural health monitoring
2010
- Decentralized Stochastic Modal Identification using High-sensitivity Wireless Smart Sensors
2010
- Feasibility study of wind generator for smart wireless sensor node in cable-stayed bridge
2010
- Structural health monitoring system of a cable-stayed bridge using a dense array of scalable smart sensor network
2010
- Long-term structural health monitoring system of a cable-stayed bridge based on wireless smart sensor networks and energy harvesting techniques
2010
- Structural health monitoring of a cable-stayed bridge using wireless smart sensor technology: data analyses
2010
- Autonomous structural health monitoring using wireless smart sensors on a cable-stayed bridge
2010
- Structural health monitoring of a cable-stayed bridge using acceleration data via wireless smart sensor network
2010
- Structural monitoring of a historic truss bridge using a wireless sensor network
2009
- Sensitivity analysis of non-conservative eigensystems
2004
- Simplified Algebraic Method for Computing Eigenpair Sensitivities of Damped Systems
2001