SOUNG EIL HOUNG (홍성일, 洪性一)
Ph.D. student @ University of California, Berkeley
Education
2024.01 - Present : Ph.D. student (Civil and Environmental Engineering), UC Berkeley
2024.01 - 2025.05 : M.S. (Civil and Environmental Engineering), UC Berkeley
2023.09 - 2023.12 : Ph.D. student (Civil Engineering), New York University
2013.09 - 2015.08 : Completion of Ph.D. Coursework (Earth System Sciences with seismology major), Yonsei University
2011.09 - 2013.08 : M. S. (Geological Science with seismology major), Yonsei University
2006.03 - 2011.08 : B. S. (Earth System Sciences), Yonsei University
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Employment
2024.01 - 2025.05 : Graduate Student Researcher @ UC Berkeley
2024.08 - 2024.12 : Graduate Student Instructor @ UC Berkeley (CE294: Disaster Risk Analysis for Infrastructure System)
2017.05 - 2023.08 : Seismologist @ Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., - Central Research Institute (KHNP-CRI)
2015.10 - 2017.05 : Seismologist @ National Institute of Meteorological Sciences (NIMS)
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Peer-reviewed papers
Houng, S.E., Ceferino, L., Abrahamson, N. (20205). Fast Propagation of Epistemic Uncertainty in Seismic Hazard via Adaptive Importance Sampling (submitted). [preprint]
Houng, S.E., Ceferino, L. (2025). Fast Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis through Adaptive Importance Sampling, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 115, 646-663 [link]
Houng, S.E. (2018). Discrimination between natural earthquakes and explosions based on the azimuthal distribution of S/P amplitude ratios, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 108, 218-229. [link] [pdf]
Houng, S.E., Lee, J., and Hong, T.-K. (2016). Dynamic seismic response of a stable intraplate region to a megathrust earthquake, Tectonophysics 689, 67-78. [link] [pdf]
Hong, T.-K., Park, S., and Houng, S.E. (2016). Seismotectonic properties and zonation of the far-eastern Eurasian plate around the Korean Peninsula, Pure and Applied Geophysics 173, 1175-1195. [link] [pdf]
Hong, T.-K., Lee, J., and Houng, S.E. (2015). Long-term evolution of intraplate seismicity in stress shadows after a megathrust, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 245, 59-70. [link] [pdf]
Hong, T.-K., Houng, S.E., and Jo, E. (2014). Temporal changes of medium properties during explosive volcanic eruption, Geophysical Research Letters 41, 1944-1950. [link] [pdf]
Houng, S.E., and Hong, T.-K. (2013). Probabilistic analysis of the Korean historical earthquake records, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 103, 2782-2796. [link] [pdf]
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Granted Patent
Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co. Ltd. (2020). Method for Automatically Discriminating Earthquake Vibratory Motion from Errorneous Signal Record at Seismic System of Nuclear Power Plant, KR 10-2587912.
Scholarship and Fellowship
Graduate Student Researcher, UC Berkeley Jan. 2024 - Present
UC Berkeley CEE SEMM Fellowship May 2025 - Aug 2025
Graduate Student Instructor (CE294 Disaster Risk Analysis), UC Berkeley Fall 2024
SOE (School of Engineering) Fellowship, New York University Sep. 2023 - Dec. 2023
Brain Korea 21 plus Scholarship, Yonsei University Sep. 2013 - Aug. 2015
Energy & Mineral Resources Development Association, Yonsei University Mar. 2013
Korea National Oil Corporation Scholarship, Yonsei University Aug. 2011
Brain Korea 21 Scholarship , Yonsei University Sep. 2011 - Aug. 2013
National Science & Technology Scholarship , Yonsei University Fall 2010
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Talks and Seminars (* = invited)
*Seminar on Adaptive Importance Sampling (AIS) based PSHA computational framework, KHNP-CRI (Jul. 2025)
*Seminar on PSHA: Theory, Practice, and Numerical Computation, KIGAM (Apr. 2025)
*Seminar on Current State-of-the-Art PSHA for Korea's NPPs, KAERI (Jul. 8. 2020)
2018 Site-specific GMRS project Workshop, POSTECH POSCO International Center (Dec. 21. 2018)
2018 KHNP CRI-CRIEPI-KEPRI General Meeting, Courtyard by Marriott Seoul Namdaemun (Nov. 8. 2018)
2018 Fault Source Modeling Workshop, KEPCO Research Institute (Aug. 24, 2018)
2018 Nuclear Safety & Security Information Conference, Daejeon Convention Center (Mar. 30, 2018)
*Seminar on Synthesis of Strong Ground Motion using Empirical Green's Function , Korea Instite of Nuclear Safety (2018)
*Seminar on Synthesis of Strong Ground Motion using Empirical Green's Function , Korean Earthquake Research Center, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (Feb., 2018)
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