Ian F. C. Smith
Nationality: Swiss and Canadian
Expertise
Active structural control
Advanced computing - engineering informatics
Interests
1 Active shape control for structures for deployment and where serviceability criteria governs
2 Biomimetic structures (learning, self-diagnosis, self-repair)
3 Infrastructure management support through structural identification
4 Advanced computer-aided engineering applications of stochastic optimization and search, multi-criteria analysis, system uncertainties (measurement and modelling), multi-modal approaches (combining statistics with behavior models)
More details : see https://www.epfl.ch/labs/imac/research/iansmith/
Curriculum vitae
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/enac/honorary-professors/ph-home/smith-ian-f-c/
Awards
Computing in Civil Engineering Award
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
2005
Publications
Teaching & PhD
Past EPFL PhD Students
Bernard Adam (2007), Numa Joy Bertola (2020), Bernd Domer (2003), Slah Drira (2020), Mohamed Elgawady (2004), Etienne Fest (2003), James-Alexandre Goulet (2012), Pascal Kronenberg (2002), Francine Laferrière (2005), Irwanda Laory (2013), Sandra Lloret Barrera (2001), Gaudenz Moser (2015), Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai (2019), Romain Pasquier (2015), Daniele Posenato (2009), Marco Proverbio (2019), Arka Prabhata Reksowardojo (2020), Yves Reuland (2017), Landolf-Giosef-Anastasios Rhode-Barbarigos (2012), Yvan Robert-Nicoud (2003), Sandro Saitta (2008), Ruth Stalker (2000), Ann Christine Sychterz (2018), Didier Vernay (2015), Nicolas Willy Veuve (2016), Marco Viviani (2005)
Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector
Mathias Haindl Carvallo (2026)
Courses
Communication for Research Engineers
CIVIL-607
Communication proficiency is one of the most important results of a good PhD and postdoc experience and it is valued equally in academia and in industry. EPFL PhD students and postdocs are expected to have excellent written, oral and graphic skills in order to transmit their ideas effectively.