Kyung K. Choi

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Joined the College of Engineering: 1981 

Education: Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Iowa, 1980
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Iowa, 1977
B.S., Physics, Yonsei University, 1970

Special Fields of Knowledge: Design sensitivity analysis; reliability-based and possibility-based design optimization; robust design optimization; mathematical theory of optimization and its application to mechanical systems; and mechanical systems analysis.

Present Research Interests: Reliability-based design optimization (design for 6-sigma); possibility-based design optimizations; mechanical systems analysis; design sensitivity analysis and optimal design of nonlinear systems; computational methods in
mechanics; mathematical theory of optimization and its application to mechanical systems; development of design sensitivity analysis and optimization tools.  

Selected Publications:

• Du, L., Choi, K.K., Youn, B.D., and Gorsich, D., "Possibility-Based Design Optimization Method for Design Problems with both Statistical and Fuzzy Input Data," ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, Vol. 128, No. 4, 2006, pp.928-935.
• Yi, K., Choi, K.K., Kim, N.H., and Botkin, M.E., "Continuum-Based Design Sensitivity Analysis and Optimization of Nonlinear Shell Structures Using Meshfree Method," Int. J. of Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 68, 2006, pp. 231-266.
• Du, L., Choi, K.K., and Youn, B.D., "An Inverse Possibility Analysis Method for Possibility-Based Design Optimization, AIAA Journal, Vol.44, No. 11, 2006, pp. 2682-2690.
• Choi, K.K., Dong, J., Vlahopoulos, N., Wang, A., And Zhang, W., "Parametric Design Sensitivity Analysis of High Frequency Structural-Acoustic Problems Using Energy Finite Element Method" 29th ASME Design Automation Conference, September 2-6, 2003, Chicago, IL. Received the 2003 ASME Best Paper Award.
• Choi, K.K. and Youn, B.D., "Hybrid Analysis Method for Reliability-Based Design Optimization," 27th ASME Design Automation Conference, September 9-12, 2001, Pittsburgh, PA. Received the 2001 ASME Black and Decker Best Paper Award.
  
  

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Fellow); American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Associated Fellow); International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (Executive Committee Member); Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE); American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE); Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA); Associate Editor, Journal of Mechanics Based Design of Structures and Machines; Associate Editor, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications; Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design; Review Editor, Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization; Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Reliability and Safety (IJRS).