“…One of the important analysis in UQ is the so-called local sensitivity analysis, in which one aims to understand how sensitive the solution depends on the input parameters [26]. For kinetic equations, a major tool to conduct sensitivity analysis for random kinetic equations has been the coercivity, or more generally, hypocoercivity, which originated in the study of long-time behavior of kinetic equations (see [9,11,23,28]). In such analysis, by using the hypocoercivity of the kinetic operator, in a perturbative setting, namely, considering solutions near the global equilibrium (see [13]), one can establish the long time convergence toward the local equilibrium with an exponential time decay rate.…”