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
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
Maksymilian Jasiak and Shih-Hung Chiu presented “Pipeline Structural Health Monitoring at Fault Crossing with Distributed Strain and Temperature Sensing (DSTS)” at the 13th Water System Seismic Conference (November 19-21, 2025) hosted by National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taipei, Taiwan. This… Read More »Maksymilian Jasiak and Shih-Hung Chiu present at 13th WSSC at NTU in Taipei, Taiwan
Researchers Yuanjie Shen and Maksymilian Jasiak from the Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI) and Sociedad Química y Minera (SQM) deployed fiber optic Nerve-Sensors (3DSensor), distributed fiber optic sensors (DFOS), Wisen smart shape, and wireless tilt node sensors to monitor… Read More »Yuanjie (Jimmy) Shen and Maksymilian Jasiak deploy fiber optic Nerve-Sensors and wireless WiSen sensors at SQM mine near Iquique, Chile
Researchers Gyubeom Shin, Shih-Hung Chiu and Maksymilian Jasiak from the Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI) deployed experimental fiber optic ground anchors at two Caltrans (California Department of Transportation) highway construction project sites near Los Angeles. A total of 16… Read More »Gyubeom Shin, Shih-Hung Chiu and Maksymilian Jasiak deploy fiber optic ground anchors on Caltrans projects near Los Angeles
CSI Director Kenichi Soga co-authored a new book, “Fundamentals of Soil Behavior, FourthEdition.” Co-authors include Professor Emeritus James K. Mitchell and Geosystems alumnaProfessor Catherine O’Sullivan. The previous third edition attracted over 13,000 citations acrossgeotechnical engineering and related fields like granular… Read More »Kenichi Soga co-authors “Fundamentals of Soil Behavior, Fourth Edition”