A new paper by Jaewon Saw, Dayu Apoji, Chien-Chih Wang, and Kenichi Soga, titled “Exploring Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Pedestrian Monitoring: Signal Characteristics and Identification,” has been published in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. The study… Read More »New Paper Explores Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Pedestrian Monitoring
A new paper by Sølve Hov, You-Jia Li, Gyu-Beom Shin, Matthew J. DeJong, Kenichi Soga, Priscilla Paniagua, and Stefan Ritter, titled “Interface behaviour of fibre optic strain sensors in cement-improved soil,” has been published in Acta Geotechnica. The paper studies… Read More »New Paper on Interface Behavior of Fiber-Optic Strain Sensors in Cement-Improved Soil
A new review paper by Joel Given, Kenichi Soga, Tadahiro Kishida, and Jinhyun Choo, titled “On the normalization of the undrained stress–strain response of soils,” has been published in the KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering. The paper examines how effective… Read More »New Paper on the Normalization of Undrained Soil Behavior
A new paper by N. Makasis and collaborators, titled “Finding common ground: A comparative study of city-scale shallow geothermal potential for Cambridge, UK, and Berkeley, USA,” has been published in Applied Energy. The study develops a framework for evaluating shallow… Read More »New Paper Compares City-Scale Shallow Geothermal Potential in Cambridge and Berkeley
A new paper by Yanglan Wang, Maria Laura Delle Monache, and Kenichi Soga, titled “Modeling and Optimization of Traffic Evacuation Using Optimal Control Model,” appears in connection with the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. The study develops… Read More »New Paper on Optimal Control Modeling for Traffic Evacuation
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