Assistant Professor Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringDepartment of Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of Western Ontario, London, Ontario Office: Room 4400A Email: ytang564 ‘at’ uwa ‘dot’ ca Dr.Tang leads the MoTech Research Group. She actively engages in diverse academic and industry… Read More »Yili (Kelly) Tang
The field of civil engineering is radically changing based on the emergence of sensing, data and modes of automation previously unimaginable. One of the most successful advancements has been wireless sensors that can be used to collect structural response data… Read More »Transforming Decisions on the Performance and Health of Transportation Structures using Cyber-Physical Systems: Lessons Learned and Future Outlook – Jerome Lynch
The effects of natural hazards with respect to infrastructure resilience are reviewed with examples related to earthquakes, hurricanes, and fire. Infrastructure resilience with respect to natural hazards vs climate change is discussed. Innovation with respect to increasing the resilience of… Read More »Infrastructure Resilience and Innovation – Thomas O’Rourke
The increasing ability of data means that we are now in a position to monitor and understand our infrastructure and cities as never before. But what data should we collect? How should we manage and analyse it? How do we… Read More »Developments in Smart Infrastructure and Construction in the UK – Jennifer Schooling
‘Smart structures’ sense, understand, and respond to structure itself, the humans within, and the surrounding environment. Traditional monitoring approaches using dedicated sensors often result in dense sensing systems that are difficult to install and maintain in large-scale structures. In this talk,… Read More »Structures as Sensors: Physics-guided Learning for Indirectly Monitoring Humans and Surroundings – Haeyoung Noh
B.F. Spencer, Jr. is the Nathan M. and Anne M. Newmark Endowed Chair of Civil Engineering, UIUC. His research has been primarily in the areas of structural health monitoring, structural control, cyberinfrastructure applications, stochastic fatigue, stochastic computational mechanics, and natural… Read More »Advances in Computer Vision–based Civil Infrastructure Inspection and Monitoring – Bill Spencer
The Soga Research Group secured funding from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to create a distributed monitoring system designed for steel pipelines transporting hydrocarbons through geohazard-prone areas. This innovative system has been implemented on a substantial PG&E… Read More »USDOT – Distributed fiber optic sensing of pipelines affected by fault crossing and landslide
Soga Research Group (SRG) collaborated with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to host the second workshop of the GOES project at the Berkeley campus from September 25 to 27, 2023. Participating research teams from various countries presented updates on a… Read More »Geothermal-based Optimized Energy System (GOES) Workshop
In Framingham, MA, a pioneering “Networked Geothermal” project is underway to explore the potential of shallow geothermal for district heating and cooling, aiming to lower carbon emissions. During 2022 and 2023, SRG carried out four distributed thermal response tests to… Read More »Learning from the Ground Up (LeGUp)