Aikaterini Kyprioti

Assistant Professor

Email: akypriot@ou.edu
Phone: (405) 325-5140
Office: Carson Engineering Center Room 427
Office Hours: Mondays-Fridays 8:30 am - 6 pm

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Education
Ph.D. Civil Engineering (2022)
University of Notre Dame

M.S., Applied & Computational Math and Statistics (2022)
University of Notre Dame

M.S., Earthquake Engineering (2016)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

B.S., Civil Engineering (2014)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

About

Dr. Kyprioti is the leader of the Natural Hazards Research Infrastructure Resiliency (NHIR) Lab which focuses on suggesting solutions for some of the 21st century engineering challenges using statistical computing (machine learning) methods. The NHIR group seeks to advance scientific approaches related to:

the efficient quantification and probabilistic characterization of natural hazards
the infrastructure response to such hazards quantifying the impact they have on the building environment
the advancement of community resilience, offering short- and long-term decision-making tools
the development of novel ways for infrastructure systems to become more sustainable

Coastal hazard risk estimation and mitigation, as well as infrastructure reliability and sustainability assessments, are broader topics that NHIR Lab is working on gathering expertise from across the world and establishing collaborations with institutions across the US. Our work is guided by the development of practical solutions, including the advancement of computational tools and their integration within the theoretical aspects of each problem, to help the civil engineering profession manage better natural disasters and design robust infrastructure systems.

Research Focus

Natural Hazard Quantification
Computational Statistics
Resilience Engineering
Coastal Resiliency
Structural Engineering
Earthquake Engineering

Experience and Awards

Best Student Paper Award from IASSAR Awards Committee 2022 Paper Title: “Kriging metamodeling for estimating EDP distributions in seismic applications utilizing stochastic ground motion models: addressing the different sources of excitation variability.”
Winner of the EMI Dynamics Committee Student Paper Competition 2021 Paper Title: "Kriging Surrogate Modeling for Approximating EDP Distributions under Stochastic Ground Motion Excitations"
Winner of the EMI Probabilistic Methods Committee Student Paper Competition 2020 Paper Title: "Bayesian Calibration of Reduced Order Structural Models for Earthquake Risk Assessment Applications"
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, Annual Outstanding Graduate Student TA or Instructor Award, Kaneb Learning Center, Notre Dame.

Professional Activities and Organizations

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute - EERI (since 2017)
Society of Women in Engineering ‚ÄìSWE (since 2021)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ‚ÄìSIAM (since 2019)
American Society of Civil Engineers- Student Member (since 2020) ‚Äì Member (since 2022)
- Objective Resilience Committee (2022)
- EMI Dynamics Committee (2023)
- EMI Probabilistic Methods Committee (2023)
- EMI Machine Learning for Mechanics Committee (2023)
Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance (StEER) ‚Äì Level 1 Membership (2022)

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses

CEES3413: Structural Analysis I
CEES5020: Structural Design‚ Masonry

Graduate Courses

Structural Reliability
Applied Computational Probability for Engineers

Selected Publications

Kyprioti, Aikaterini P., Christopher Irwin, Alexandros A. Taflanidis, Norberto C. Nadal-Caraballo, Madison C. Yawn, and Luke A. Aucoin. "Spatio-temporal storm surge emulation using Gaussian Process techniques." Coastal Engineering (2022): 104231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2022.104231
Kyprioti, Aikaterini P., Alexandros A. Taflanidis, Norberto C. Nadal-Caraballo, Madison C. Yawn, and Luke A. Aucoin. "Integration of Node Classification in Storm Surge Surrogate Modeling." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 10, no. 4 (2022): 551. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10040551
Kyprioti, Aikaterini P., Ehsan Adeli, Alexandros A. Taflanidis, Joannes J. Westerink, and Hendrik L. Tolman. "Probabilistic Storm Surge Estimation for Landfalling Hurricanes: Advancements in Computational Efficiency Using Quasi-Monte Carlo Techniques." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9, no. 12 (2021): 1322. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9121322
Kyprioti, Aikaterini P., and Alexandros A. Taflanidis. "Kriging metamodeling for seismic response distribution estimation." Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics (2021). https://doi.org/10.1002/eqe.3522
Kyprioti, Aikaterini P., Alexandros A. Taflanidis, Matthew Plumlee, Taylor G. Asher, Elaine Spiller, Richard A. Luettich, Brian Blanton, Tracy L. Kijewski-Correa, Andrew Kennedy, and Lauren Schmied. "Improvements in storm surge surrogate modeling for synthetic storm parameterization, node condition classification and implementation to small size databases." Natural Hazards (2021): 1-38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-021-04881-9
Kyprioti, Aikaterini P., Alexandros A. Taflanidis, Norberto C. Nadal-Caraballo, and Madison Campbell. "Storm hazard analysis over extended geospatial grids utilizing surrogate models." Coastal Engineering (2021): 103855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.103855
Kyprioti, Aikaterini P., Alexandros A. Taflanidis, Norberto C. Nadal-Caraballo, and Madison O. Campbell. "Incorporation of sea level rise in storm surge surrogate modeling." Natural Hazards 105, no. 1 (2021): 531-563. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04322-z
Kyprioti, Aikaterini P., Alexandros A. Taflanidis, and Andrew B. Kennedy. "Dissipation Effects of Coastal Vegetation on Nearshore Structures under Wave Runup Loading." Journal of Structural Engineering 147, no. 3 (2021): 06020010. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0002902
Patsialis, Dimitrios, Aikaterini P. Kyprioti, and Alexandros A. Taflanidis. "Bayesian calibration of hysteretic reduced order structural models for earthquake engineering applications." Engineering Structures 224 (2020): 111204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2020.111204
Kyprioti, Aikaterini P., Jize Zhang, and Alexandros A. Taflanidis. "Adaptive design of experiments for global Kriging metamodeling through cross-validation information." Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 62, no. 3 (2020): 1135-1157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-020-02543-1