Research Focus Area: Intelligent Infrastructure Engineering

Recent technological advances are enabling civil infrastructure systems with intelligent capabilities to adapt to dynamically changing environments. For example, concepts of machine learning combined with sensors and actuators can allow a system to learn from an environment and take actions to optimize its response.

Future engineers must be equipped with capabilities to design such systems to provide society with more efficient infrastructures. This requires a highly multi-disciplinary approach (e.g., control theory, artificial intelligence, sensing systems, optimization theory, asset management, etc.). The Intelligent Infrastructure Engineering program offers such training opportunity to students desiring to pursue this non-traditional path. Typical students will be Ph.D. candidates conducting multi-disciplinary research that addresses the intelligent infrastructure challenge.

Research Faculty

Alice Alipour Associate Professor	Resilience quantification methods for infrastructure systems under extreme events Multi-hazard design and assessment criteria for structures Reliability assessment of deteriorating infrastructure components
Halil Ceylan Professor	Design of Portland cement concrete and asphalt cement concrete Pavement analysis and design “Iowa State’s Ceylan awarded FAA grant on ice- and snow-free pavements”
In Ho Cho Associate Professor	Big data-oriented engineering and science High performance computing/parallel computing algorithms Earthquake engineering
Simon Laflamme Associate Professor	Structural control Structural health monitoring Smart structures and intelligent systems engineering
Anuj Sharma Associate Professor	Big data analytics in transportation and data-driven decision making Safety and efficiency of traffic operations Smart rural transportation
Omar Smadi Center for Transportation Research and Education Interim Director, Associate Professor	Transportation asset management Transportation safety
Christopher Day Assistant Professor	Performance measures Intelligent transportation systems Connected and automated vehicles
Jonathan Wood Assistant Professor	Connected and autonomous vehicles Data-driven decision making with uncertainty Transportation safety analytics
Simon Laflamme Associate Professor	Structural health monitoring Adaptive systems Structural control Intelligent systems Nonlinear time series

Yunjeong “Leah” Mo Assistant Professor

Smart building energy management and occupant behavior Construction work process automation Emerging technologies (VR/AR, BIM, Digital-Twin, etc.) for construction research and education