• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Logo for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan
  • Giving
  • News and Events
  • Contact

  • About
    • History
    • Strategic Directions
    • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
      • CEE DEI Committee
      • DEI Resources
      • Have a concern?
    • Alumni
      • CEE Friends Association
        • CEEFA Board
      • Award Winners
    • Giving
      • Giving Legacy
    • Leadership and Governance
    • Faculty Search
      • Faculty Position in Environmental Engineering
      • Faculty Position in Intelligent Systems
    • Contact
      • Student Services Contacts
      • Master’s Advising Contacts
      • Undergraduate Advising Contacts
  • Undergraduate Studies
    • BSE Degree in Civil Engineering
    • BSE Degree in Environmental Engineering
    • Minor in Civil Engineering
    • Minor in Environmental Engineering
    • FocusCEE
      • Community Policy and Planning
      • Smart Cities
      • Sustainability
    • Undergraduate Opportunities
      • Undergraduate Externship
      • Student Research and Employment
        • CEE SURE/SROP Projects 2023
    • Schedule an Advising Appointment
    • Declare Your Major
    • Careers in CEE
      • What is a Civil or Environmental Engineer?
      • Career Pathways
      • Employers of CEE Graduates
      • How to Recruit CEE Graduates
    • Undergraduate Student Advisory Council
    • Student Life
  • Graduate Studies
    • Master’s Programs
    • PhD Programs
      • PhD Mentoring Framework
      • PhD Candidate Roster
    • Pelham Scholars Program
    • Online Learning
      • Construction Engineering and Management MasterTrack™
    • Admissions Information
      • International Applicants
      • Sequential Undergraduate/Graduate Studies (SUGS) Applicants
    • Graduate Handbook
    • Graduate Student Advisory Council
    • Student Life
  • People
    • Faculty
      • Affiliated Faculty
      • Core Faculty
      • Emeritus Faculty
    • Postdocs
    • Researchers
    • Staff
      • Administrative
      • Finance
      • Human Resources
      • IT & Web
      • Laboratory Technicians
      • Purchasing
      • Student Services
  • Research
    • New Grants
    • Civil Infrastructure Systems
      • Construction Engineering and Management
      • Geotechnical Engineering
      • Intelligent Systems
      • Next Generation Transportation Systems
      • Structural and Materials Engineering
    • Environment and Water Resources
      • Ecohydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
      • Energy and Clean Technology
      • Environmental Chemistry and Soil Physics
      • Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology
    • Smart Infrastructure Finance
    • Urban Collaboratory
    • Facilities
      • Advanced Materials Research
      • Cementitious Composites
      • Center of Excellence in Bridges and Structures
      • Computational Community Resilience
      • Computational Structural Simulation
      • Construction Engineering Lab
      • Geotechnical Engineering Labs
      • Intelligent Structural Technology
      • Next Generation Infrastructure
      • Next Generation Transportation Systems Research Facilities
      • Pavement Research Center of Excellence
      • Structural Engineering Lab
  • Resources
    • Shipping
    • Purchasing
      • Purchasing Frequently Asked Questions
    • Reimbursement
    • IT Resources
    • Lab Safety
      • Lab Safety Basics
      • Minimum Training Requirements
    • Lab Requests and Procedures
    • Room Requests
    • Faculty Intranet
    • Giving
    • News and Events
    • Contact
Seymour Spence

Seymour M.J. Spence

home_outline/People/Faculty/Core Faculty/Seymour M.J. Spence

Associate Professor

Contact

smjs@umich.edu(734) 764-8419

Location

22056 GGB

2350 Hayward, 2056 GGB Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125

Primary Website

RESLab

Google Scholar Profile

  • Education
  • Research Interests
  • Professional Service
  • Awards
  • Publications

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Florence, Italy, and TU Braunschweig, Germany, 2009
  • M.S., University of Perugia, Italy, 2005

Research Interests

My main research interests lie in the areas of performance-based wind engineering, system-level analysis and optimization of uncertain dynamic systems, probabilistic modeling and uncertainty propagation, metamodeling of static and dynamic systems, machine learning in stochastic analysis of structures, resilience and adaptation of communities subject to severe wind events, distributing computing frameworks for infrastructure systems, topology optimization of uncertain stochastic systems, computational fluid dynamics for wind and rain simulation. In addition, I am interested in expanding my research to hybrid data/physical computational modeling, decision frameworks based on social wellness, and computational modeling of wild fires at the interface of urban communities.

Professional Service

  • Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE)
  • Member, Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of ASCE
  • Member, International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE)
  • Member, The American Association for Wind Engineering (AAWE)
  • Member, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)

Awards

  • NSF CAREER Award, 2018
  • John F. Ullrich Education Excellence Award, University of Michigan, 2018
  • American Association for Wind Engineering, Best Journal Paper Award, 2017
  • Chi Epsilon “James M. Robbins” Excellence in Teaching Award (Great Lakes District), 2017
  • Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering Honor Society, 2017
  • CEE Professor of the Year, University of Michigan Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017
  • American Society of Civil Engineers ExCEEd Teaching Fellowship, 2016
  • J. James R. Croes Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015
  • Japan Association for Wind Engineering Award for Publishing, Japan Association for Wind Engineering, 2013

publications

  • Chuang, W.-C., Spence, S.M.J. “Rapid Uncertainty Quantification for Non-linear and Stochastic Wind Excited Structures: A Metamodeling Approach.” Meccanica. 2019; Online ISSN 1572-9648
  • Suksuwan, A., Spence, S.M.J. “A Reliability Model for the Rapid Optimization of Large-scale and Uncertain Wind Excited Structures.” Engineering Structures. 2019; 190: 493-505
  • Suksuwan, A., Spence, S.M.J. “Performance-Based Design Optimization of Uncertain Wind Excited Systems under System-level Loss Constraints.” Structural Safety. 2019; 80: 13-31
  • Suksuwan, A., Spence, S.M.J. “Performance-based Bi-objective Design Optimization of Wind-excited Building Systems.” Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 2019; 190: 40-52
  • Ouyang, Z., Spence, S.M.J. “A Performance-Based Damage Estimation Framework for the Building Envelope of Wind-excited Engineered Structures.” Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 2019; 186: 139-154
  • Lin, S.-Y., Xu, L., Chuang, W.-C., El-Tawil, S., Spence, S.M.J., Kamat, V.R., Menassa, C.C., McCormick, J. “Framework for Modeling Interdependent Effects in Natural Disasters: Application to Wind Engineering.” Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE. 2019; 145(5): 04019025
  • Chuang, W.-C., Spence, S.M.J. “An Efficient Framework for the Inelastic Performance Assessment of Structural Systems Subject to Stochastic Wind Loads.” Engineering Structures. 2019; 179: 92-105
  • Suksuwan, A., Spence, S.M.J. “Optimization of Uncertain Structures Subject to Stochastic Wind Loads under System-Level First Excursion Constraints: A Data-Driven Approach.” Computers and Structures. 2018; 210: 58-68
  • Spence, S.M.J. “Optimization of Uncertain and Dynamic High-Rise Structures for Occupant Comfort: An Adaptive Kriging Approach.” Structural Safety. 2018; 75: 57-66
  • Suksuwan, A., Spence, S.M.J. “Performance-based Multi-hazard Topology Optimization of Wind and Seismically Excited Structural Systems.” Engineering Structures. 2018; 172: 573-588
  • Suksuwan, A., Spence, S.M.J. “An Efficient System-Level Reliability-Based Design Optimization Framework for Large-Scale Uncertain and Dynamic Wind Excited Systems.” ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering. 2018; 4(2)
  • Chuang, W.-C., Spence, S.M.J. “A Performance-Based Design Framework for the Integrated Collapse and Non-Collapse Assessment of Wind Excited Buildings.” Engineering Structures. 2017; 150: 746-758
  • Bobby, S., Suksuwan, A., Spence, S.M.J., Kareem, A. “Reliability-Based Topology Optimization of Uncertain Building Systems Subject to Stochastic Excitation.” Structural Safety. 2017; 66: 1-16
  • Bobby, S., Spence, S.M.J., Kareem, A. “Data-Driven Performance-Based Topology Optimization of Uncertain Wind-Excited Tall Buildings.” Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization. 2016; 54(6): 1379-1402


Footer

Logo for Michigan Engineering at the University of Michigan

  • Giving
  • News and Events
  • Contact
  • Sign up for our newsletter
  • U-M Engineering Home
  • Strategic Vision
  • Graduate and Professional
  • Undergraduate
  • U-M Engineering Research News
  • U-M Home

  • Giving
  • News and Events
  • Contact
  • Sign up for our newsletter

© 2023 The Regents of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA Privacy Policy | Non-Discrimination Policy | Campus Safety

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter
  • YouTube