On Friday, February 20, 2026, CSI in collaboration with EBMUD and Carollo hosted the second annual Infrastructure Hazard Resilience Workshop at UC Berkeley. Over 230 participants gathered in person and on-line to focus on the urgent challenges facing the infrastructure… Read More »Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure Hosts Infrastructure Hazard Resilience Workshop
Staff Scientist Email: nnakata ‘at’ lbl ‘dot’ gov Nori Nakata is a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he investigates subsurface fault behavior and structural changes driven by natural processes and engineered activities such as geothermal energy production,… Read More »Nori Nakata
Postdoctoral Scholar Guodong Chen is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on subsurface fluid flow, AI for sustainability, and generative AI for scientific simulation, design and discovery. Guodong received… Read More »Guodong Chen
Postdoctoral Scholar Email: liujx ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Jingxiao Liu is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on non-dedicated sensing and physics-guided learning and modeling for scalable monitoring of… Read More »Jingxiao Liu
On September 20, 2025, nearly 85 students from CE 112 (Water and Wastewater Systems Design and Operation) and CE 280 (Rock Mechanics), led by Professor Kenichi Soga, visited the Pardee Dam for a hands-on learning experience. The field trip offered… Read More »Field Trip to Pardee Dam
Professor Dimitrios Zekkos, CSI co-director, is the editor of the new Manual of Practice in Geoenvironmental Engineering (MOP 159) published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The manual was developed under the auspices of the Geoenvironmental Engineering Technical… Read More »Dimitrios Zekkos Edits New Manual of Practice in Geoenvironmental Engineering
Professor Kenichi Soga, CSI PI, delivered the 63rd Rankine Lecture on March 15, 2025, in London, England. The Rankine Lecture is widely viewed as the most prestigious of the invited lectures in geotechnics. It commemorates William John Macquorn Rankine, Professor… Read More »Kenichi Soga Delivers the 63rd Rankine Lecture
WUI-Go!, a startup in the spring 2021 CITRIS Foundry cohort, has been awarded $1.23 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II program. The company is a spinoff from the… Read More »Startup awarded $1.23 million from NSF SBIR program
The November 2025 issue of Municipal Sewer and Water includes the article “A New Approach to Infrastructure Resiliency” which features the benefits of partnerships between academic researchers at the Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI), utilities, and manufacturers. These different… Read More »“A New Approach to Infrastructure Resiliency” features CSI research partnerships
Research Affiliate Email: wonyoung ‘at’ berkeley ‘dot’ edu Won Young Park is a Research Affiliate in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley and an Energy Environmental Policy Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on techno-economic analysis,… Read More »Won Young Park