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Sangmin Shin

Sangmin Shin, Assistant Professor

Water Resources Engineering

My research interests are integrated water resources management, critical interdependent infrastructure modeling, water cyber-physical-social system, artificial intelligence, urban water sustainability and resilience, socio-environmental hydrology, multi-objectives optimization, real-time control, and systems thinking and analysis.

Classes

  • UNIV 101 Saluki Success
  • ENGR 370 Fluid Mechanics
  • CE471 Groundwater Hydrology
  • CE472 Open Channel Hydraulics
  • CE473 Hydrologic Analysis and Design
  • CE474 Water Resources Engineering
  • CE571 Water Resources Engineering & Management
SIU Sangmin Shin Engineering B, Room 34
618-453-3325
sangmin.shin@siu.edu
Personal Website

Education

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, July 2016 – December 2020
  • Lecturer, Civil Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea, March 2015 – August 2015
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, KAIST Initiative for Disaster Studies, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, February 2015 – May 2016
  • Graduate Research Assistant, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, September 2009 – August 2012
  • Researcher, KAIST Institute for Urban Space & Systems, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, February 2009 – June 2009
  • M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 2008
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, Pusan National University, 2006

Professional Affiliations

  • American Society of Civil Engineers
  • Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association

Professional Related Experiences

  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, July 2016 – December 2020
  • Lecturer, Civil Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea, March 2015 – August 2015
  • Postdoctoral Researcher, KAIST Initiative for Disaster Studies, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, February 2015 – May 2016
  • Graduate Research Assistant, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, September 2009 – August 2013
  • Researcher, KAIST Institute for Urban Space & Systems, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea, February 2009 – June 2009

Honors and Awards

  • Postdoc Travel Assistance Award (University of Utah, 2019)
  • Best Paper Presentation Award (Korean Society of Disaster & Security, 2015)

Publications:

Journals

  • Asadollahi, A., Sohrabifar, A., Ghimire, A. B., Poudel, B., and Shin, S. (2024). The impact of climate change and urbanization on groundwater levels: system dynamics model analysis. Environmental Protection Research. 4(1), 115. DOI: 10.37256/epr.4120243531.
  • Acharya, A., Liu, J., and Shin, S. (2023). Evaluating the multi-dimensional resilience of water distribution networks to contamination events. Water Supply. 23(3): 1416–1433 DOI: 10.2166/ws.2023.058.
  • Bhusal, A., Kalra, A., and Shin, S. (2023). Resilience effects of decentralization detention system to extreme flooding events. Journal of Hydroinformatics, 25(3): 971-988. DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2023.176.
  • Ghimire, A. B., Faruk, O., Shadia, N., Parajuli, U. and Shin, S. (2023). Correlation of drought indices with climatic and socio-economic factors in San Diego, USA. Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science. DOI: 10.1680/jenes.23.00070.
  • Shin, S., Aziz, D., El-sayed, M. E. A., Hazman, M., Almas, L., McFarland, M., El Din, A. S., and Burian, S. J. (2022). Systems thinking for planning sustainable desert agriculture systems with saline groundwater irrigation: a review. Water, 14(20). DOI: 10.3390/w14203343.
  • Hassan, D., Burian, S. J., Johnson, R. C., Shin, S., and Barber, M. E. (2022). The Great Salt Lake water level is becoming less resilient to climate change. Water Resources Management. DOI:10.1007/s11269-022-03376-x.
  • Shin, S., Aziz, D., Jabeen, U., Bano, R., and Burian, S. (2021). A trade-off balance among urban water infrastructure improvements and financial management to achieve water sustainability. Urban Water Journal, 19(2): 195-207. DOI: 10.1080/1573062X.2021.1992452.
  • Shin, S., Lee, S., Burian, S. J., Judi, D. R., and McPherson, T. (2020). Evaluating resilience of water distribution networks to operational failures from cyber-physical attacks. ASCE Journal of Environmental Engineering, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)EE.1943-7870.0001665.
  • Lee, S., Shin, S., Judi, D. R., McPherson, T., and Burian, S. J. (2019). Criticality analysis of a water distribution system considering both economic consequences and hydraulic loss using Modern Portfolio Theory. Water Journal. 11(6), 1222. DOI: 10.3390/w11061222
  • Shin, S., Lee, S., Judi, D. R., Parvania, M., Goharian, E., McPherson, T., and Burian, S. J. (2018). A systematic review of quantitative resilience measures for water infrastructure systems. Water Journal. 10(2), 164. DOI: 10.3390/w10020164.
  • Shin, S. and Park, H. (2018). Achieving cost-efficient diversification of water infrastructure system against uncertainty using Modern Portfolio Theory. Journal of Hydroinformatics. 20(3): 739-750. DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2018.240.
  • Kamal, N. A., Shin, S., and Park, H. (2017). Predictive model of parameters validation for the vortexanda technique by using fuzzy logic and neural network. Journal of Mechanical Engineering, SI, 4(1): 19-36.
  • Kamal, N. A., Lee, G., Shin, S. and Park, H. (2015). Design of stormwater particle removal system for small scale urban hydropower based on the vortex and coanda effects. International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET), 9(2): 395-403.
  • Shin, S. and Park, H. (2015). Notes on integrated disaster management for resilient response to disaster, Korean Society of Disaster & Security, 8(2): 11-20.
  • Kamal, N. A., Park, H. and Shin, S. (2014). Assessing the viability of microhydropower generation from the stormwater flow of the detention outlet in an urban area. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply Journal, 14(4): 664-671.
  • Seok, K., Shin, S., Lee, S. and Park, H. (2014). Upstream sediment transport of the gate across a channel, Desalination and Water Treatment, DOI: 10.1080/ 19443994.2014.922304 1-7.
  • Choi, G., Bae, J., Shin, S., Park, H. (2013) FLY system of green infrastructure for coping with climate change, Applied Mechanics and Materials, 260-261: 1156-1157.
  • Shin, S., Lee, S., Lee, S., Yum, K. and Park, H. (2012). Improving design factors of air diffuser systems based on field conditions of dam reservoirs: CFD simulation approach, Water Science & Technology, 66(1): 53-60.

Selected Conference Proceedings

  • Ghimire, A., Parajuli U., Bhusal, A., Parajuli, A., Banjara, M., and Shin, S. (2023). Investigating a diversified and decentralized water distribution system to enhance water supply resilience to disruptive events, ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2023, Henderson, NV, May 21-25, 2023.
  • Parajuli, U., Bhusal, A., Ghimire, A., and Shin, S (2023). Comparing HEC-HMS, PCSWMM and Random Forest models for rainfall-runoff evaluation to extreme flooding events, ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2023, Henderson, NV, May 21-25, 2023.
  • Lee, S., Shin, S., Burian, S., Judi, D., and McPherson, T. (2018) Detectability-based resilience of water distribution system using failure finger print. 1st International WDSA / CCWI 2018 Joint Conference, Jul. 23-25, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
  • Lee, S., Shin, S., Judi, D., McPherson, T., and Burian, S. (2017). Water distribution system recovery strategies considering economic consequences from business loss. 15th International Computing & Control for the Water Industry Conference, Sep. 5-7, Sheffield, UK.

Invited Talk

  • Shin, S. (2022). Resilience principles for building integrated disaster management to uncertainty. Seoul National University (South Korea) - Emerging New Technologies, Sustainability, and Public Policy. August 19, 2022
  • Shin, S. (2022). Managing variety and feedback interactions to create resilient and sustainable water systems. EWRI St. Louis Monthly Speaker Series Event. May 19, 2022.
  • Shin, S. (2017). Towards resilient management of civil infrastructure system. Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association. Mar. 21, 2017.

Posters Oral Presentations

  • Acharya, A. and Shin, S. (2022). Resilience analysis of water distribution network to contamination intrusion events. ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2022, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 5-8, 2022.
  • Shin, S., Choi, E., Aziz, D., and Burian, S. J. (2022) Resilience strategies for agricultural water system in South Korea to combined impacts of climate and socioeconomic changes. ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2022, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 5-8, 2022.
  • Acharya, A. and Shin, S. (2021). Evaluating resilience of water distribution networks to malicious contamination attacks. 2021 Mid-American Environmental Engineering Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 25, 2021.
  • Bhusal, A. and Shin, S. (2021). Comparing the resilience of centralized and distributed detention reservoir systems for flood mitigation against extreme events. 2021 Mid-American Environmental Engineering Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, September 25, 2021.
  • Shin, S., Aziz, D., and Burian, S. J. (2019). Investigating effects of water system augmentation on energy consumption and financial balance: application of System Dynamics approach. 2019 Annual Water Resources Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, November 3-6, 2019.
  • Choi, E., Shin, S., Aziz, D., and Burian, S. J. (2019). A system dynamics model to evaluate climate resilience for agricultural water system in South Korea. 2019 Annual Water Resources Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, November 3-6, 2019.
  • Shin, S., Lee, S., and Burian, S. J. (2019). Adjusting Operational Interaction of Components in Water Distribution Systems to Maximize Recovered Performance from Cyber-physical Attacks. ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, May 19-23, 2019.
  • Shin, S., Jabeen, U., Aziz, D., Ahmed, W., Bano, R., and Burian, S. J. (2019). Developing a System Dynamics Model to Evaluate Water and Financial performance of Water Supply Systems in Hyderabad, Pakistan. ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, May 19-23, 2019.
  • Lee, S., Shin, S., and Burian, S. J. (2019). Investigating Impacts of Pipe Burst Leakage to Pipe Roughness Coefficient Estimation. ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, May 19-23, 2019.
  • Lee, S., Shin, S., and Burian, S.J. (2019). Framework for Smart Water Network Design to Enhance Rapidity and Redundancy. ASCE-EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress 2019, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, May 19-23, 2019.
  • Shin, S., Lee, S., Judi, D., McPherson, T., and Burian, S. (2018). Imparts of operational failures by cyber attacks on water distribution networks. World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 3-7, 2018
  • Lee, S., Burian, J. S., Shin, S. (2017). Sustainability metrics for water distribution system using Triple Top Line. World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Sacramento, California, May 21-25, 2017.
  • Kim, J., Shin, S., Park, H. (2016). Study on improving response system for maritime HNS spills. Asian Conference on Disaster Response and Management, Sep. 1-3, Hiroshima, Japan.
  • Kim, N., Shin, S., Ryu, J., Kim, J., Cho, H., and Park, H. (2016). Development of emergency response system for HNS spill accidents. The 10th International Conference on Crisis and Emergency Management, Jun 17-18, Lucerne, Switzerland.
  • Cho, H., Kim, N., Shin, S., Jeong, J., Kim, J., and Park, H. (2016). Development of risk assessment for marine HNS spill accidents. 2016 Conference on Korean Institute of Hazardous Materials, Aug. 18-19, Myongji University, Yongin, South Korea.
  • Ryu, J., Kim, J., Shin, S., Kim, N., Cho, H., and Park, H. (2016). The conceptual design of Early Task Force for marine HNS accidents response based on the requirement for technical development. 2016 Conference on The Korean Society for Marine Environment and Energy, May 19-20, Busan BEXCO, South Korea.
  • Cho, H., Shin, S., and Park, H. (2016). A Study on selecting HNS for priority management in Korea Sea Area, 2016 Conference on Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation, Feb. 18-19, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea.
  • Shin, S. and Park, H. (2014). Cost-effective variety can reduce variety in real world: Diversity in water infrastructure system, APEC Climate Symposium 2014, Nanjing, China, Oct. 27-29, 2014.
  • Shin, J., Shin, S., Han, J. and Park, H (2013). Measuring sustainability of urban infrastructure using axiomatic design: a Korean case, 26th KKHTCNN Symposium on Civil Engineering, Nov 18-20, Singapore.
  • Shin, J., Shin, S., Han, J., and Park, H. (2013) Developing indicators for measuring greenness of urban infrastructure based on Axiomatic Design, 2013 Korean Society of Civil Engineers Conference, Oct 23-25, Gangwon-do, South Korea.
  • Park, H., Lee, S. and Shin, S. (2012). Empirical discussions on climate change signals and adaptation practices of urban water management: a Korean perspective, Climate Adaptation Futures: Second International Climate change Adaptation Conference 2012.
  • Shin, S., Lee, S., Park, H., and Yum, K. (2012). Analysis of oxygen transfer of air diffuser system using CFD simulation. 2012 Korean Society of Civil Engineers Conference, Oct. 24-26, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea.
  • Shin, S., Lee, S., Shin, J., Choi, G., and Park, H. (2011). Adaptation practices of urban water infrastructure management. Joint Conference of Korean Society of Water & Wastewater and Korean Society on Water Quality, Nov 2-3, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejoen, South Korea.
  • Han, J., Shin, S., Lee, S., and Park, H. (2011). Study on in-stream flow for restoring urban stream with consideration of the stream-specific characteristics: application to Gyobang Cheon. Joint Conference of Korean Society of Water & Wastewater and Korean Society on Water Quality, Nov 2-3, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, South Korea.