Monday, May 7, 2018 from 5:00 to 6:00pm

ABSTRACT: With recent technological breakthroughs, making bridges smart is no longer a dream.  This talk will first review the lessons that I have learned from bridge structural health monitoring research over the last two decades. Then I will discuss opportunities and challenges related to transforming advances in ubiquitous sensors, computer vision, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence into the design, maintenance, and operation of structures with self-sensing and learning capabilities.  When bridges could reliably call for help, wouldn’t you give them timely attention and proper remedies? 

BIO: Dr. Maria Feng  joined the Columbia faculty in 2012 as Renwick Professor of Civil Engineering, an endowed professorship. Professor Feng’s research is on the forefront of multidisciplinary science and engineering in sensors, structural health monitoring, smart structure and system control for civil infrastructure and military applications, with an emphasis on structural safety and system resilience against natural and man-made hazards.  She has made a number of original contributions to the state-of-the-art in both academic research and engineering practice through the development of novel fiber optic dynamic sensors, vision-based remote sensors, microwave imaging technology, vibration-based system identification algorithms for damage assessment, as well as the friction-controllable sliding isolation system and mega-sub structures for wind and seismic hazard mitigation. 
Professor Feng’s achievements have been recognized by her election as a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and numerous  awards, including,  the Collingwood Prize by ASCE, the Alfred Noble Prize awarded jointly by the ASCE, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, and the Western Society of Engineers, and   the ASCE Water L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE “for innovative, interdisciplinary and practical research on sensing, monitoring and controlling dynamic response of civil engineering systems subjected to earthquake and wind loads.” She was also named the Top Researcher on Wearable Sensors by MIT Technology Review among other recognition.