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Assistant Professor

Yu, Yun-Chi

Title：
Assistant Professor
Email：
11508002@gs.ncku.edu.tw
Lab：
50203
TEL：
06-2757575 ext.54233
Education：
Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, USA (2018–2025)
M.S. in Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (2014–2016)
B.S. in Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (2010–2014)
Specialities：
Disaster Management and Spatial Planning, Climate and Environmental Change Adaptation Planning, Spatiotemporal Modeling and Analysis, Urban Development Dynamics Modeling
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Experience

Current

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University (2026.08–Present)

Experience

2025.07–2026.08 Assistant Professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, Japan
2025.10–2026.08　Co-Instructor, Disaster Science and Safety Fundamentals II (災害科学・安全学基礎II), International Joint Graduate Program in Resilience and Safety Studies (GP-RSS), Tohoku University, Japan.
2024.01–2025.05　Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
2023.08–2025.05　Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
2022.08–2023.05　Data Analytics / Statistical Analysis Consultant, Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning (CITL), University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Courses

Awards

Refereed Papers

Godfrey-Montero, R. E., Murao, O., & Yu, Y.-C. (2026). A regional seismic risk assessment framework accounting for urban informality and data limitations: A case study of the canton of San José, Costa Rica. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 106295.
Khoiriyah, M., Murao, O., & Yu, Y.-C. (2026). Enhancing tsunami evacuation planning through spatial and behavioral analyses: A case study of Cilacap, Indonesia. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 106329.
Yu, Y.-C., Sharma, N., & Gardoni, P. (2024). Protocol for the validation of models for regional risk analysis. ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering, 10(4), 04024069.
Yu, Y.-C., & Gardoni, P. (2022). Predicting road blockage due to building damage following earthquakes. Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 219, 108220.

Conference Papers

Yu, Y.-C., & Chao, S. T.-Y. (2015). A study on the optimized evaluation criteria of disaster-prevention urban renewal area in Yongkang District, Tainan City. In Proceedings of the 28th Association of European Schools of Planning Annual Congress (AESOP), Prague, Czech Republic. (Full paper)
Chao, Stessa T.-Y., Chang, H.-S., Yu, Y.-C. (2015). The delivering mechanism of disaster-prevention urban renewal in Tainan City. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Planning, Law and Property Rights (PLPR), Volos, Greece. (Full Paper)
Yu, Y.-C. and Gardoni, P. (2022). ‘Validating the current state-of-practice for seismic risk (and resilience) analysis.’ In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Emerging Developments and Innovative Applications of Reliability Engineering and Risk Managements (EDIARR), Taipei, Taiwan. (Full Paper)
Yu, Y.-C. and Gardoni, P. (2022). ‘Predicting Road Blockage Due to Building Damage Following Earthquakes.’ In Proceedings of the 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (17WCEE), Sendai, Japan. (Full Paper)
Yu, Y.-C. and Gardoni, P. (2023). ‘Validating the current state-of-practice for risk (and resilience) analysis.’ In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP14), Dublin, Ireland. (Full Paper)

Research Projects

Guided Students and Thesis

Academic Service

Workshops and Invited Talks

Invited Talks

2024 Invited Talk, Modeling Regional Infrastructure Risk and Resilience to Support Land-use Decision-making, Department of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering (CEGE), University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom.
2025 Invited Talk, Building Community Resilience through Modeling and Improving Urban Infrastructure, Department of Urban Planning, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
2025 Invited Talk, Toward Community Resilience: Regional Infrastructure Resilience Assessment and Urban Planning Applications, Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.