Professor Shamim Pakzad's invited seminar
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Professor Shamim Pakzad from Lehigh University in the US is visiting RESSLab. He will give than invited seminar with title: "Making Sense of SHM in a Smart Cities Vision"
Date: December 2, 2016
Time: 14:30pm - 15:30pm
Room: GC C2 413
ABSTRACT: The rapid revolution in sensing, computation, and communication technology in the past twenty years has provided exciting opportunities for the integration of sensing systems to contribute in addressing one of the key questions of the engineering community in realizing resilient systems. It is hard to imagine a future for resilient civil structures and infrastructure without embedded interactive sensory networks that can provide comprehensive feedback about the condition of structures, and produce information that can be used in operation, maintenance, rehabilitation and functionality of structures and infrastructure. The objective of this presentation is to provide a vision for resilient systems in the context of research in sensory, data analysis and interpretation, and laboratory and field validation and implementation.
BIO: Dr. Pakzad’s research interests include structural health monitoring; wireless sensor networks; damage detection; system identification and signal processing; probabilistic methods in civil engineering and structural reliability; random vibrations and structural dynamics; and structural monitoring of large infrastructures and bridges. Prof. Pakzad received his bachelor's degree from the Baha'i Insitute for Higher Education in Tehran, Iran (1995). He holds a M.S. from San Jose State University, CA (2000) and a PhD degree from University of California, Berkeley (2008). He joined the faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lehigh University in 2008 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. In 2014 he was promoted to an Associate Professor.