Yutian Pang, PhD

Yutian Pang, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics

A Hybrid Framework for Explainable Aviation Risk: Causal Chain Extraction from Safety Reports with Physics-Based Failure Quantification and Counterfactual Analysis

Published in To be submitted to Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2026

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Aggregate causation graph learned from 55,940 NTSB and FAA accident chains, layered from organizational factors to aerodynamic states.

Extracts causal chains from aviation safety reports and grounds them with physics-based failure quantification and counterfactual analysis, producing risk explanations an operator can check.

Representative publication of this research line.

Recommended citation 

@unpublished{pang2026hybrid,
  title = {A Hybrid Framework for Explainable Aviation Risk: Causal Chain Extraction from Safety Reports with Physics-Based Failure Quantification and Counterfactual Analysis},
  author = {Pang, Y. and Tian, Y. and Xie, J. and Zhao, X. and Hu, J. and Jacobsen, H. and Clarke, J.},
  note = {To be submitted to Advanced Engineering Informatics},
  year = {2026}
}