The NSF-funded Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) Project team, led by Professor Kenichi Soga, CITRIS scholar Louise Comfort, and post-doc Seunghyun Lee, organized a pair of kickoff community workshops designed to promote collaboration and engagement. These workshops were held on… Read More »NSF-Funded Project Team Hosts Community Workshops
Jaewon presented her research “Hydraulic fracture stage identification and size estimation using distributed strain and temperature sensing” at The International Meeting for Applied Geoscience & Energy conference in Houston, Texas on August 30th, 2023. In this work, Jaewon worked with… Read More »Jaewon’s Presentation at IMAGE’23 Conference
Dayu attended the ASCE Geo-Risk conference at Arlington, VA, on July 23-26, 2023. He delivered a presentation titled “Unsupervised Soil Clustering and Anomaly Detection Based on EPB TBM Data”. In this work, he used a combination of Principal Component Analysis… Read More »Dayu’s Presentation at ASCE Geo-Risk Conference
To ensure the highest standards of safety and efficiency, we deploy Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot into the tunnel for inspection. SPOT is a quadruped terrestrial robot known for its agility and adaptability, and comes equipped with advanced sensors, transforming traditional… Read More »EBMUD USL Tunnel Inspection using Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot Equipped with Advanced Sensor Technology
On May 21, Lake Temescal in Oakland hosted the vibrant centennial celebration of the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). The event, a tribute to EBMUD’s 100 years of service and dedication to the community, showcased the organization’s legacy. For a special presentation,… Read More »CSI Team Celebrates EBMUD’s 100th Anniversary
Congratulations to CEE Professor Kenichi Soga on his induction into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)! Soga was elected for his achievements in geomechanics and computational modeling, as well as underground infrastructure simulation and monitoring. He is one of 106 new members… Read More »Congratulation on Kenichi Soga’s NAE Election
Together with industry collaborators, we successfully held the UC Berkeley Tunneling Course titled “Principles, Practices, and Recent Development Using Data-Driven Methods” on February 7 at 454 Conference Room, Richmond Field Station. This initiative was aimed at developing the UC Berkeley… Read More »Collaboration with industry partners for UCB Course on Tunneling & Data Driven Methods
The first preliminary assessment of the GPR-based mapping tool was conducted at two intersections on Van Buren Avenue, Oakland in December 2022 and January 2023 by CSI and GEO SEARCH. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a technology that can help… Read More »First GPR-based mapping tool assessment was conducted by CSI team and GEO Search
Two ductile iron pipes manufactured by U.S. Pipe were tested by the CSI group on November 30 and December 15 of 2022. The pipes were tested under bending forces to evaluate the rotation capacity of the bell of the pipe.… Read More »Two 4-point bending tests on ductile iron pipes were performed in CSI
As a new activity by the Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI), Professor Kenichi Soga, Won-jun Cha, Shih-Hung Chiu, and East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) subject-matter experts, led by Clifford Chan (General Manager) and David Katzev, opened a new undergraduate… Read More »CE 112: Water & Wastewater Systems Design and Operation