About Me

Hyun Woo Park, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- P1412, Department of Civil Engineering, Dong-A University
  840 Hadan2-dong, Saha-gu, Busan 604-714, South Korea
- Tel: +82-51-200-7630
- Fax: +82-51-201-1419
- E-mail: hwpark at dau.ac.kr
Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Feb. 2002.
  Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- M.S., Civil Engineering, Feb. 1997.
  Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Feb. 1995.
  Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Ph.D. Thesis
- “Regularization techniques in system identification for damage assessment of structures”
  Supervised by Prof. Hae Sung Lee, Department of civil engineering, Seoul National University, Korea.
Research Experience
- September 2007 - Present
  - Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea
- March 2007 - August 2007
  - Full-time Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Dong-A University, Busan, Korea
- June 2006 - February 2007
  - General Deputy Manager, Korea Railroad Corporation R&D Center.
  - Developing a decision making support system for renewal and maintenance planning of highspeed (KTX) tracks
    (Funded by Korea Institute of Construction and Transportation Technology Evaluation and Planning: approximately 4.3 billion Won from 2006 to 2010)
- May 2005 - May 2006
  - Senior Researcher, Korea Bridge Design & Engineering Research Center.
  - Developing a 1-norm based regularization scheme for SI of discontinuous system parameters.
  - Numerical analysis of ultrasonic waves in a thick plate induced by surface bonded active sensors.
  - Developing a drift-free time integration scheme of measured accelerations using a regularization technique.
- November 2004 - April 2005
  - Visiting Scholar, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA (Host professor: Hoon Sohn).
  - Developing a parameter estimation technique using generalized extreme value distribution for structural health monitoring.
  - Developing a baseline free damage assessment technique by combining a time reversal process and a consecutive outlier analysis.
- August 2003 - August 2004
  - Post doctoral scholar, Department of Civil and Environmental engineering, Stanford University, CA, USA.
    Supported by KOSEF post-doctoral support program (Supervisor: Kincho H. Law).
  - Developing an enhanced time reversal method using Lamb wave for structural health monitoring of plate-like structures.
  - Developing a short-term damage assessment for structural health monitoring.
- March 2002 - April 2003
  - Post doctoral researcher, Integrated safety team, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea.
  - Developing a time domain SI scheme for identifying hysteretic behaviors of a seismic isolator.