Mini Symposium, MS-1

Building Research Careers in Structural Control and Monitoring

Monday, June 6 13:00 - 14:30, Auditorium Room 101

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Synopsis: This mini symposium aims to provide opportunities to (i) get guidance on how to navigate through the first few years of academic and research career, (ii) share experience and wisdom of pursuing academic and research career paths, and (iii) network with peers and experts in structural control and monitoring fields, form mentor-mentee relationships. This symposium is specially to help junior members of our community, including graduate students, postdocs, and early-career faculty. Topics include but are not limited to advice for career paths (universities, national labs, government & industry) for those at different career levels (graduates, postdocs & junior faculty), emerging research trends and topics, job preparation and application tips, relationships with advisors and colleagues, and diversity and inclusion. Our panelists consist of field experts at various stages in academia and national laboratories. They will share their useful career experiences and insights through short presentations followed by a Q&A session. To provide opportunities to have in-depth discussions on specific topics, we will hold small group sessions for in-person attendees and Zoom breakout rooms for virtual attendees. We hope this symposium will provide opportunities for people to meet and better understand and nurture our community.

Panelists

  • Dr. Chuck Farrar, Engineering Institute Leader of National Security Education Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, U.S.A. (virtual) (Link)

  • Dr. Mohammad Jahanshahi, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, U.S.A. (Link)

  • Dr. Haeyoung Noh, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, U.S.A. (virtual) (Link)

  • Dr. Audrey Oliver, Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Southern California, U.S.A. (in-person) (Link)

Moderator:

Panelists
Chuck Farrar
LANL, U.S.A.
Mohammad Jahanshahi
Purdue University, U.S.A.
Audrey Olivier
University of Southern California, U.S.A.
Haeyoung Noh
Stanford University, U.S.A.
Moderator
Hae-Bum Yun
University of Central Florida, U.S.A.
# Mentor Website Time Zone Date Time Room Zoom Passcode Mode
MS 1-1 David Wagg Link Eastern Time 6/6/22 14:30:00 - 15:15:00 Room 102R Link Login to get the passcode In-person
MS 1-2 Audrey Olivier Link Eastern Time 6/8/22 10:30:00 - 11:15:00 Room 102R Link Login to get the passcode In-person
MS 1-3 ZhiQian Chen Link Eastern Time 6/7/22 14:30:00 - 15:15:00 Room 102R Link Login to get the passcode In-person
MS 1-4 Robin Eunju Kim Link Eastern Time 6/7/22 15:30:00 - 16:15:00 Room 102R Link Login to get the passcode In-person
MS 1-5 Yougchao Yang Link Eastern Time 6/6/22 14:30:00 - 15:15:00 - link Login to get the passcode Virtual
MS 1-6 Chul-Woo Kim Link Japan Standard Time 6/7/22 13:00:00 - 14:30:00 - Link Login to get the passcode Virtual
MS 1-7 Hadi Meidani Link Eastern Time 6/8/22 13:00:00 - 14:30:00 - Link Login to get the passcode Virtual
MS 1-8 Mustafa Gul Link Mountain Time 6/8/22 13:00:00 - 14:30:00 - Link Login to get the passcode Virtual
MS 1-9 Jun Li Link Australia Western Standard Time 6/8/22 13:00:00 - 14:30:00 - Link Login to get the passcode Virtual

Mini Symposium, MS-2

Smart Cities and Smart Tourism

Tuesday, June 7 13:00 - 14:30, Auditorium Room 101

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Synopsis: Smart Cities are interconnected complex systems including components such as people, built environment, operations, economic and social-organizational aspects. Smart cities will combine sensing, communications, and management technologies to create urban environments that are adaptable, connected, able to be monitored at any given time and focused on the achievement of a specific set of objectives. As technology continues to transform the infrastructure sector, artificial intelligence, sensing, the Internet of Things, and various in-sight era technologies provide emergent opportunities for smart cities to improve quality of lives of people, improve efficiency in operations and contribute to “green communities”. New generation of smart cities can take advantage of such developments while recognizing that natural, technological, and human-caused hazards, pandemics can take a high toll on communities, costing in lives, livelihoods and quality of life if such disaster risks are not considered and managed. Some of the major cities such as New York, Las Vegas, Orlando in the USA also receive large number of visitors/tourists contributing greatly to local and state economies. Tourism businesses may need to prepare challenges such revisioning, leading, coordinating, and planning tourism destinations for destination marketing and management organizations in a smart city. Therefore, smart tourism is a part of the interconnected smart city system.
Given the abovementioned challenges, how should different stakeholders for such cities address these complex systems issues? What and how emergent technologies could facilitate the transition towards a resilient, economically and socially vibrant smart city with smart tourism? The Smart Cities and Smart Tourism Mini-symposium will gather experts with backgrounds in built infrastructure, novel technologies, tourism industry to discuss the opportunities challenges of smart city and smart tourism development and unpack existing technological trends and advances. The expert panelist listed below will bring their own perspectives to Smart City concepts and implementations especially considering major cities have to consider smart tourism as an integral part of the economy, people, and operations along with built environment and advanced technologies.

Panelists

  • Dr. Andrew Smyth, Professor of Civil Engineering & Chair of the Smart Cities Center, Columbia University, New York (Link)

  • Dr. Therese McAllister, Community Resilience Group Leader, National Institute of Standards and Technology (Link)

  • Ms. Mital Hall, PMP, LEEd AB O+M, CC-P, Vice President, ecoPreserve Inc.

  • Mr. Jeff Benavides, Chief Sustainability & Resilience Officer at Orange County, Orange County, Florida (Link)

Moderator:

  • Dr. Arthur Huang, Assistant Professor, Rosen College of Hospitality Management, University of Central Florida (Link)

  • Dr. Necati Catbas, Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida (Link)

Panelists
Andrew Smyth
Columbia University, U.S.A.
Therese McAllister
NIST, U.S.A.
Mital Hall
ecoPreserve Inc. U.S.A.
Jeff Benavides
Orange County Government, U.S.A.
Moderator
Arthur Huang
University of Central Florida, U.S.A.
Necati Catbas
University of Central Florida, U.S.A.