Ian F. C. Smith
Professor Emeritus
ian.smith@epfl.ch +41 21 693 52 42 https://www.epfl.ch/schools/enac/honorary-professors/ph-home/smith-ian-f-c/
Citizenship: Swiss and Canadian
EPFL ENAC IIC EESD
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1015 Lausanne
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Fields of expertise
Measurement data interpretation
Active structural control
Advanced computing - engineering informatics
Active structural control
Advanced computing - engineering informatics
Biography
PhD, Cambridge University, 1982Interests
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/