Ever wonder what your fellow faculty member’s research interests are? Here’s your chance to meet your colleagues and find out how their work might be beneficial to yours… and enjoy some pizza at the same time!

Dr. Jonghyun Harry Lee joined the UHM Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and Water Resources Research Center in October 2017 and has been involved in a NSF EPSCOR `IKE WAI project. He was previously an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education postdoc scholar at Stanford University and worked on subsurface imaging, contaminant remediation optimization, aquifer recharge and recovery, and coastal and riverine area management funded by NSF, DoD and US Army Corps of Engineers. He worked for IT companies for three years in South Korea. He is author of 16 journal articles and 1 conference paper and is a member of SIAM and AGU.

Scalable Simulation, Estimation and Optimization in Water Resources Engineering

Recent advances in computational resources and sensor technology allow multi-physics simulation of hydro-geophysical properties and open up a new opportunity to characterize unknown simulation model parameters at small scale. However, identification of unknown parameters such as subsurface permeability or riverine/coastal bathymetry becomes more computationally challenging than ever with expensive high-fidelity simulations and big environmental data assimilation. In this talk, I will introduce numerical tools such as enriched Galerkin FEM and O(n) linear algebra that can accelerate numerical simulation and parameter estimation. Then I will discuss previous and ongoing projects with potential future research opportunities at the University of Hawaii.

Please RSVP by noon on Thursday, February 22 to Carrie Matsuzaki at x 6-2286 or e-mail: cmatsuza@hawaii.edu