Building durable and adaptive structures and modernizing transportation networks and water and sewer systems present challenges for future planners, engineers, and developers.
These challenges are exacerbated in urban environments due to growing populations that stress the use of these systems.
Our research in this focus area addresses issues related to the design, construction, and monitoring of infrastructure systems through the development of new technologies related to the implementation of:
Combination of sensing networks and machine learning and analytics to enhance real time and long-term infrastructure deterioration prediction and maintenance decision making.
Decentralized and infrastructure-less systems for proactive disaster management and emergency operations in smart cities.
Resilient, sustainable and durable materials.
Geo Risk modeling for subsurface infrastructure.
A combination of earth observation using in situ and space borne sensors along with other sources like citizen science and IoT to improve the modeling of hydrological and meteorological events with a focus on urban/coastal areas.
Cross-disciplinary research is covered through the coastal resilience and construction research programs in the coastal and oceanic systems focus area, and through groundwater modeling in the sustainable environmental systems focus area.
Urban Infrastructure Systems Researchers
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