Felipe Uribe, Dr.-Ing.

E-Mail: felipe dot uribe at tum dot de

Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
  • 2016-2019: Ph.D. Student at the Engineering Risk Analysis Group, Technische Universität München (Munich, Germany)
  • 2018 (Sep-Dec): Visiting Researcher at the Uncertainty Quantification Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA)
  • 2012-2015: M.Eng. in Industrial Automation, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Manizales, Colombia)
  • 2007-2011: B.Eng. in Civil Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Manizales, Colombia)

Research

  • Bayesian inference of engineering models with spatially variable properties​
  • Hierarchical Bayesian inference applied to random fields
  • Updating of rare event probabilities

Teaching

  • S18: Teaching assistant for the "Advanced Stochastic Finite Element Methods" course, TUM
  • W16/17, W17/18: Teaching assistant for the "Structural Reliability" course, TUM
  • I-2016: Lecturer of the courses "Numerical Methods Applied to Civil Engineering" and "Structural Reliability", Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Manizales)

Supervised theses/projects

  • Bachelor thesis (with the Chair of Energy Conversion Technology): Adam Misik (2019) - Data mining based complexity reduction of system state data from electrical power nets.
  • Master thesis: Junyi Jiang (2018) - Traditional and approximate Bayesian computations with applications to random fields
  • Study project: Alexander von Ramm (2018) - Submodel selection in hydrological modeling: a Bayesian approach
  • Master thesis: Matthias Willer (2017) - Subset simulation and moving particles methods for reliability analysis

Publications

  • Felipe Uribe, Iason Papaioannou, Youssef M. Marzouk, Daniel Straub. Cross-entropy-based importance sampling with failure-informed dimension reduction for rare event simulation. SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification. 9(2), 818-847.
  • Felipe Uribe, Iason Papaioannou, Jonas Latz, Wolfgang Betz, Elisabeth Ullmann, Daniel Straub. Bayesian inference with subset simulation in varying dimensions applied to the Karhunen–Loève expansion. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 1-28.
  • Felipe Uribe, Iason Papaioannou, Wolfgang Betz, Daniel Straub (2020). Bayesian inference of random fields represented with the Karhunen-Loève expansion, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 358, 112632.
  • Diego A. Alvarez, Felipe Uribe, Jorge E. Hurtado (2018). Estimation of the lower and upper bounds on the probability of failure using subset simulation and random set theory. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. 100, 782-801.
  • Felipe Uribe, Iason Papaioannou, Wolfgang Betz, Elisabeth Ullmann, Daniel Straub (2017). Random fields in Bayesian inference: effects of the random field discretization. 12th International Conference on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR 2017). Vienna, Austria.
  • Felipe Uribe, Iason Papaioannou, Wolfgang Betz, Jonas Latz, Daniel Straub (2017). Bayesian model inference of random fields represented with the Karhunen-Loève expansion. 2nd International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering (UNCECOMP 2017). Rhodes, Greece.
  • Felipe Uribe, Diego A. Alvarez, Jorge E. Hurtado, Bryan Chalarca, Daniel Bedoya-Ruíz (2015). Hysteresis parameter identification and reliability assessment of ferrocement walls. 11th International Symposium on Ferrocement (FERRO11) and the 3rd International Conference on Textile Reinforced Concrete (ICTRC). Aachen, Germany.
  • Bryan Chalarca, Daniel Bedoya-Ruíz, Felipe Uribe, Diego A. Alvarez, Jorge E. Hurtado (2015). Strength assessment of sandwich-type ferrocement structural walls under cyclic loading. 11th International Symposium on Ferrocement (FERRO11) and the 3rd International Conference on Textile Reinforced Concrete (ICTRC). Aachen, Germany.
  • Diego A. Alvarez, Jorge E. Hurtado, Felipe Uribe (2014). Estimation of the lower and upper probabilities of failure using random sets and subset simulation. 2nd International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM) and the 6th International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA). Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • Felipe Uribe, Gilberto A. Ortiz, Diego A. Alvarez, Daniel Bedoya-Ruiz (2014). Nonlinear modeling and fragility analysis of ferrocement structures. 7th International Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics (CSM7). Santorini, Greece.

Talks

  • Cross-entropy method with failure-informed dimension reduction for rare event estimation. 39th International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (MaxEnt2019). Garching b.M., Germany.
  • Model choice in Bayesian inference of random fields with subset simulation. 3rd International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering (UNCECOMP 2019). Crete, Greece.
  • On the implications of hyperparameters choices in Bayesian inference of random fields. 13th World Congress in Computational Mechanics (2018). New York, USA.
  • Bayesian inference with structural reliability methods using transdimensional MCMC algorithms. 8th Conference on Computational Stochastic Mechanics (2018). Paros, Greece.
  • Assessment of the Karhunen-Loève expansion for Bayesian reliability updating with random fields. 89th Annual Scientific Conference of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM 2018). Munich, Germany.
  • Transdimensional MCMC algorithms for Bayesian inference of random fields (Poster). Frontiers of Uncertainty Quantification in Engineering (FRONTUQ 2017). Munich, Germany.

Theses and Final Works