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
Ruth Stalker (2000), Sandra Lloret Barrera (2001), Pascal Kronenberg (2002), Yvan Robert-Nicoud (2003), Etienne Fest (2003), Bernd Domer (2003), Mohamed Elgawady (2004), Francine Laferrière (2005), Marco Viviani (2005), Bernard Adam (2007), Sandro Saitta (2008), Daniele Posenato (2009), Landolf-Giosef-Anastasios Rhode-Barbarigos (2012), James-Alexandre Goulet (2012), Irwanda Laory (2013), Gaudenz Moser (2015), Didier Vernay (2015), Romain Pasquier (2015), Nicolas Willy Veuve (2016), Yves Reuland (2017), Ann Christine Sychterz (2018), Sai Ganesh Sarvotham Pai (2019), Marco Proverbio (2019), Numa Joy Bertola (2020), Arka Prabhata Reksowardojo (2020), Slah Drira (2020)
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.