Publications

Journal Papers (* indicates co-first authors)

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Modeling & Simulation

  1. Jonghyun Lee, Massimo Rolle, and Peter K. Kitanidis, Longitudinal Dispersion Coefficients for Numerical Modeling of Groundwater Solute Transport in Heterogeneous Formations, Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, in press

  2. Julia Regnery, Jonghyun Lee, Zachary W. Drumheller, Jorg E. Drewes, Tissa H. Illangasekare, Peter K. Kitanidis, John E. McCray and Kathleen M. Smits, Trace Organic Chemical Attenuation during Managed Aquifer Recharge: Insights from a Variably Saturated 2D Tank Experiment, Journal of Hydrology, 548: 641-651, 2017

  3. Julia Regnery, Jonghyun Lee, Peter K. Kitanidis, Tissa Illangasekare, Jonathan O. Sharp, and Jorg E. Drewes, Integration of Managed Aquifer Recharge for Impaired Water Sources in Urban Settings - Overcoming Current Limitations and Engineering Challenges, Environmental Engineering Science, 30(8): 409-420, 2013

Inverse Modeling & Data Assimilationi

  1. Jonghyun Lee, Hojat Ghorbanidehno, Matthew Farthing, Ty Hesser, Eric F. Darve, and Peter K. Kitanidis, Riverine bathymetry imaging with indirect observations, Water Resources Research, accepted

  2. Jonghyun Lee, Amalia Kokkinaki, and Peter K. Kitanidis, Fast large-scale joint inversion for deep aquifer characterization using pressure and heat tracer measurements, Transport in Porous Media, 2017

  3. Peter K. Kang*, Jonghyun Lee*, Xiaojing Fu, Suenghak Lee, Peter K. Kitanidis, and Juanes Ruben, Improved Characterization of Heterogeneous Permeability in Saline Aquifers from Transient Pressure Data during Freshwater Injection, Water Resources Research, 53(5): 4444-458, 2017

  4. Jonghyun Lee, Hongkyu Yoon, Peter K. Kitanidis, Charles J. Werth and Albert J. Valocchi, Scalable Subsurface Inverse Modeling of Huge Data Sets with an Application to Tracer Concentration Breakthrough Data from Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Water Resources Research, 52(7): 5213-5231, 2016 AGU WRR Editors’ Highlight

  5. Sarah Fakhreddine*, Jonghyun Lee*, Peter K. Kitanidis, Scott Fendorf, and Massimo Rolle, Imaging Geochemical Heterogeneities Using Inverse Reactive Transport Modeling: an Example Relevant for Characterizing Arsenic Mobilization and Distribution, Advances in Water Resources, 88: 186-197, 2016

  6. Jonghyun Lee and Peter K. Kitanidis, Large-Scale Hydraulic Tomography and Joint Inversion of Head and Tracer Data using the Principal Component Geostatistical Approach (PCGA), Water Resources Research, 50(7): 5410-5427, 2014

  7. Peter K. Kitanidis and Jonghyun Lee, Principal Component Geostatistical Approach for Large-Dimensional Inverse Problem, Water Resources Research, 50(7): 5428-5443, 2014

  8. Jonghyun Lee and Peter K. Kitanidis, Bayesian Inversion with Total Variation Prior for Discrete Geologic Structure Identification, Water Resources Research, 49(11): 7658-7669, 2013

  9. Dorra Hammami, Taesam Lee, Taha Ouarda, and Jonghyun Lee, Predictor Selection for Downscaling GCM data with LASSO, Journal of Geophysical Research, VOL. 117, D17116, doi:10.1029/2012JD017864, 2012

Optimization, Control & Value of Information

  1. Zachary Drumheller, Kathleen M. Smits, Tissa H. Illangasekare, Julia Regnery, Jonghyun Lee, and Peter K. Kitanidis, Optimal Decision Making Algorithm for Managed Aquifer Recharge and Recovery Operation using Near Real-Time Data: Benchtop Scale Laboratory Demonstration, Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, 37(1): 27-41, 2017

  2. Jonghyun Lee, Xiaoyi Liu, Peter K. Kitanidis, Ungtae Kim, Jack Parker, Aleisa Bloom, and Robert Lyon, Cost Optimization of DNAPL Remediation at Dover Air Force Base Site, Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation, 32(2), 48-56, 2012

  3. Xiaoyi Liu, Jonghyun Lee, Peter K. Kitanidis, Jack Parker, and Ungtae Kim, Value of Information as a Context-Specific Measure of Uncertainty in Groundwater Remediation, Water Resources Management, 26(6), 1513-1535, 2012

  4. Domenico Bau and Jonghyun Lee, Multi-Objective Optimization for the Design of Groundwater Supply Systems under Uncertain Parameter Distribution, Pacific Journal of Optimization, 7(3), 407-424, 2011

Numerical Linear Algebra

  1. Arvind Saibaba, Jonghyun Lee, and Peter K. Kitanidis, Randomized Algorithms for Generalized Hermitian Eigenvalue Problems with Application to Computing Karhunen-Loeve Expansion, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 23(2): 314-339, 2016 arxiv

Conference Extended Abstracts & Proceedings

  1. Jonghyun Lee, Amalia Kokkinaki, Yue Li, Peter K. Kitanidis, Joint inversion of Pressure and Heat Tracer data using TOUGH2, Extended Abstract in Proceedings of TOUGH2 Symposium 2015 slides

Reports

  • Practical Cost-Optimization of Characterization and Remediation Decisions at DNAPL Sites with Consideration of Prediction Uncertainty, SERDP Project ER-1611

Presentations

  • Jonghyun Lee, Scalable inverse modeling and data assimilation methods in earth sciences. Inria@SiliconValley workshop session on “Level-set methods, parallel computing and uncertainty quantification: Techniques and Application” at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Berkeley, June 9, 2017

  • Jonghyun Lee, Massimo Rolle, and Peter K. Kitanidis, How can we make Fickian dispersion models useful in practice, AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2016

  • Jonghyun Lee, Scalable inverse modeling with an application to saline aquifer characterization, US Army Corps of Engineer's Engineering Research Development Center Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, Vicksburg, Mississippi, November 10, 2016

  • Peter Kyungchul Kang, Jonghyun Lee, Xiaojing Fu, Seunghak Lee, Peter K. Kitanidis, and Ruben Juanes, Joint Inversion of Density-driven Flow and Tracer Transport Data for Characterizing a Managed Aquifer Recharge and Recovery Site, The 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Seoul, South Korea, July 26, 2016

  • Amalia Kokkinaki, Jonghyun Lee, Peter K Kitanidis, Brent E Sleep, Hongkyu Yoon, Charles J Werth, and Albert J Valocchi, DNAPL Modeling With Permeabilities Obtained By Geostatistical Inverse Modeling: How Much Detail Is Enough?, Computational Methods in Water Resources, University of Toronto, Canada, June 24, 2016

  • Jonghyun Lee, Hongkyu Yoon, Thomas Dewers and Peter K. Kitanidis, Multiscale Imaging of Carbonate Rocks and 3D Stochastic Reconstruction for Digital Rock Physics, SIAM Conference on Imaging Science, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 26, 2016

  • Jonghyun Lee, Scalable Subsuface Modeling and Characterization for Aquifer Recharge and Recovery, Departmental Seminar, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark, April 14, 2016

  • Jonghyun Lee, and Peter K. Kitanidis, Fast Large-Scale and Joint Subsurface Inversion Using Principal Component Geostatistical Approach, SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 7, 2016

  • Jonghyun Lee, Integrated Hydro-geophysical Characterization for Managed Aquifer Recharge and Recovery Sites, International Workshop on Aquifer Storage and Recovery in Saline Aquifer, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul, Korea, Mar 22, 2016

  • Jonghyun Lee, Fast and Scalable Subsurface Inverse Modeling using Principal Component Geostatistical Approach, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Mar 2, 2016

  • Julia Regnery, Zachary Drumheller, Jonghyun Lee, Jorg Drewes, Kathleen Smits, Tissa H. Illangasekare, and John E. McCray, Understanding trace organic chemical attenuation during groundwater recharge by means of a 2D synthetic aquifer, NGWA Conference - Hydrology and Water Quality in the Southwest, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Feb 23-24, 2016

  • Peter K. Kitanidis and Jonghyun Lee, Three-dimensional ERT Imaging by the Geostatistical Approach, AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, USA, December 2015

  • Jonghyun Lee, Hongkyu Yoon and Peter K. Kitanidis, Fast Large-Scale and Joint Subsurface Inversion Using Principal Component Geostatistical Approach, SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Stanford, CA, USA, June 29, 2015

  • Jonghyun Lee, Julia Regnery, Zackary W. Drumheller, Paul Schulte, Kathleen M. Smits, Tissa H. Illangasekare and Peter K. Kitanidis, FEFLOW Integration to a Sensor-based Control System for Managed Aquifer Recharge, Groundwater Modeling Workshop : State-of-the-art Groundwater Modelling For Water Resources Management And Well-field Operation, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 8 2014

  • Xiaoyi Liu, Quanlin Zhou, Jens T. Birkholzer and Jonghyun Lee, Geostatistical Reduced-Order Models in Inverse Problems, SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Savannah, Georgia, USA, April 2014

  • Jonghyun Lee and Peter K. Kitanidis, Bayeisan Total Variation Inversion for Discrete Geologic Structure Identification, AGU Fall Meeting 2012, San Francisco, California, Dec 2012

  • Jonghyun Lee, Peter K. Kitanidis and Xiaoyi Liu, Bayesian Subsurface Imaging using Total Variation Prior, Stanford Chapter of SIAM, Stanford, USA, Mar 8 2012

  • Peter K. Kitanidis, Jack Parker, Ungtae Kim, Xiaoyi Liu, and Jonghyun Lee, Context-specific Quantification of Uncertainty, Value of Information, and Total-cost Optimization of DNAPL Site Remediation, SERDP Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA, Nov 30 - Dec 2 2010

  • Xiaoyi Liu, Jonghyun Lee, Peter K Kitanidis, Jack Parker, and Ungtae Kim, Context-Specific Measures of Uncertainty in Groundwater Remediation, AGU Fall Meeting 2010, San Francisco, California, USA, Dec 2010

  • Jonghyun Lee and Domenico Bau, Optimization Approaches for the Management of Groundwater Supply Systems under Parameter Uncertainty, AGU Hydrology Days, Colorado State University, USA, March 29 2009

Posters

  • Jonghyun Lee, Massimo Rolle, and Peter K. Kitanidis, The impact of mass transfer limitations and heterogeneity contrasts on the parameterization of longitudinal dispersion in numerical models, 9th International Conference on Porous Media & Annual Meeting, Rotterdam, Netherlands, May 8, 2017

  • Hongkyu Yoon, Jonghyun Lee, Thomas A. Dewers, and Peter K. Kitanidis, Multiscale Imaging of Carbonate Rocks and Upscaling for Digital Rock Physics, AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco, CA, December 16, 2016

  • Aysegul Aksoy, Jonghyun Lee, and Peter K. Kitanidis, Determination of the Spatial Distribution in Hydraulic Conductivity Using Genetic Algorithm Optimization, AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco, CA, December 14, 2016

  • Amalia Kokkinaki, Hojat Ghorbanidehno, Jonghyun Lee, Matthew Farthing, Ty Hesser, Peter K. Kitanidis, and Eric F. Darve, Efficient Data Assimilation Algorithms for Bathymetry Applications, AGU Fall Meeting 2016, San Francisco, CA, December 13, 2016

  • Jonghyun Lee, Hongkyu Yoon and Peter K. Kitanidis, Multiscale Imaging of Carbonate Rocks and Efficient 3-D Stochastic Rock Reconstruction through Dimension Reduction, Conference on Data Analysis, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, March 2-4, 2016

  • Jonghyun Lee, Hongkyu Yoon and Peter K. Kitanidis, Scalable Subsurface Inverse Modeling Using Big Environmental Data Sets: Application to Conductivity Estimation in a Sand Box from a Massive MRI Data Set, Conference on Data Analysis, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, March 2-4, 2016

  • Jonghyun Lee, Hongkyu Yoon, Peter K. Kitanidis, Charles J. Werth and Albert J. Valocchi, Efficient High-dimensional Characterization of Conductivity in a Sand Box using Massive MRI concentration data, AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, USA, December, 2015

  • Kathleen Smits, Zachary Drumheller, Jonghyun Lee, Tissa H. Illangasekare, Julia Regnery and Peter K. Kitanidis, Development of a Control Optimization System for Real Time Monitoring of Managed Aquifer Recharge and Recovery Systems Using Intelligent Sensors, AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, USA, December, 2015

  • Jonghyun Lee and Peter K. Kitanidis, Principal Component Geostatistical Approach (PCGA) for Large-Scale and Joint Subsurface Inverse Problems, AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, Dec 2014

  • Sarah Fakhreddine, Jonghyun Lee, Peter Kitanidis, Scott Fendorf and Massimo Rolle, Imaging Reactive Minerals In The Subsurface Using Inverse Reactive Transport Modeling: An Example Relevant For Arsenic Mobilization, AGU Fall Meeting 2014, San Francisco, California, Dec 2014

  • Zachary Drumheller, Julia Regnery, Jonghyun Lee, Tissa Illangasekare, Peter Kitanidis and Kathleen Smits, Integrating Predictive Modeling with Control System Design for Managed Aquifer Recharge and Recovery Applications,

  • Jonghyun Lee, Sivaram Ambikasaran, Peter K. Kitanidis, Tissa H. Illangasekare and Kathleen M. Smits, Hydrogeophysical Data Assimilation Using a Fast Kalman Filter for Managed Aquifer Recharge and Recovery, AGU Fall Meeting 2013, San Francisco, California, Dec 2013

  • Jonghyun Lee, Taesam Lee, Daeryong Park, and Youngil Song, Employment of Historical Literature Information on Flood Frequency Analysis using Bayesian MCMC method, AGU Hydrology Days, Colorado State University, USA, March 27 - 29 2009

  • Jonghyun Lee and Taesam Lee, Program Development on the Nonparametric Weather Generator supported by a Database System, AGU Hydrology Days, Colorado State University, USA, March 26 - 28 2008