EECE Seminar ~ Dr. Xiong (Bill) Yu

About this event

Xiong (Bill) Yu, Ph.D., P.E., Fellow ASCE

Opal J. and Richard A. Vanderhoof Professor and Chair,

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case Western Reserve University

Smart Infrastructure: Data-Driven Assessment, Maintenance and Resiliency

Abstract

With rapid urbanization, our societies have seen unprecedented development of infrastructure networks (water supply network, sewer network, culvert, and other utility networks). Managing the colossal scales of water infrastructure presents a major engineering challenge. Sustaining the quality of life requires to efficiently plan, develop, manage, and maintain the infrastructure systems in a sustainable way. The increasing numbers of connected devices for the smart cities and smart communities enables the collection of big data for a data driven approach than traditional physics-rule based discovery. Machine Learning and AI are promising to play an important role to support decision making in all these processes. This talk will introduce research in our group in developing application specific data-driven machine learning (ML) models that are applied for utility condition evaluation, risk assessment, resilience improvements. Data-driven ML models will enable decisions that contribute to the resilience and sustainability of our communities.

Bio :

Dr. Xiong (Bill) Yu, P.E., is the Opal J. and Richard A. Vanderhoof _Professor and Chair at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Case Western Reserve University. He also holds secondary appointments in Electrical Computer and Data Science Departments. Dr. Yu’s research interests include two major thrusts, i.e., understanding the multiscale and multiphysics processes in porous materials and geosystems, and advancing the intelligent infrastructure systems. His research has been supported by a number of sources, including a NSF CAREER award in 2009. He has published over 200 journal papers and over 200 referred conference proceedings, receiving a few paper awards. He received PE with the highest score 2004 for both Civil Engineering and Overall in Ohio. He is dedicated to graduate student mentorship with 15 out 20 graduated Ph.D. students have landed tenure track faculty positions, a few have received NSF CAREER awards and other types of young investigator awards. He provides active services to the professional communities such as ASCE G-I, IEEE Smart City, TRB. He served as Chair of Case School of Engineering (CSE) Undergraduate Committee 2014-2016, Chair of CSE P&T Committee for 2016-2017, and Chair of CSE Executive Committee 2017-2019, and currently as Chair of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He received a number of awards for academic excellence and leadership service, including the University Thinkbig Leadership award (2022), the Diekhoff Award for Graduate Mentoring (2023), and School of Engineering Faculty Research (2012, 2018) and Innovation Awards (2019).