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Ian F. C. Smith

ian.smith@epfl.ch https://www.epfl.ch/schools/enac/honorary-professors/ph-home/smith-ian-f-c/

Nationality: Swiss and Canadian

EPFL ENAC IIC EESD
GC B2 504 (Bâtiment GC)
Station 18
1015 Lausanne

Office: GC B2 504, GC G1 494
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Website: https://eesd.epfl.ch

EPFL ENAC ENAC-DEC PH-ENAC
GC D2 386 (Bâtiment GC)
Station 18
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Measurement data interpretation
Active structural control
Advanced computing - engineering informatics
PhD, Cambridge University, 1982
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

Please see personal website
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

Bernd Domer (2003)

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.