SooJin Yoon

Dr. Yoon recently joined the faculty at Oklahoma State University in 2020. She has ten years working experience in transportation especially highway and pavement structure analysis in South Korea. She studied the entire process from pavement materials, design, and construction to analysis and management for physical infrastructure.

During her Ph.D. program and a post-doctoral fellowship at Purdue University, Dr. Yoon participated in six Joint Transportation Research Program and Indiana Department of Transportation projects, and one National Science Foundation project. Her research areas are disaster risk reduction, facility informatics, and construction analytics. In addition, her research abilities in analytic decision-making and data-driven analysis, and big data analysis have contributed to development of extensive, data-intensive interdisciplinary research between construction industry and construction academia.

Dr. Yoon is an active member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and Leadership in Educational Facilities.

Research Interests:

• SMART Construction
• Optimized Budget Allocation
• Data-driven Decision Making Support System
• Data-driven Analytics: Data mining, Statistical learning, Machine Learning
• Disaster Risk Reduction
• Infrastructure Iife Cycle Cost Analysis
• Energy Resilience and Sustainability
• Climate Change Impact Assessment
• Growth Econometrics and Disaster Impacts