Seminar on Rethinking Infrastructure Resilience with AI
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Muntasir Billah, Associate Professor & Schulich Research Chair, University of Calgary, Canada.
About the Speaker:
qMIST graduate; MSc & PhD in structural engineering from UBC.
qRecipient of the UBC Governor General’s Gold Medal (2016) and UCalgary Research Excellence Award.
q80+ journal and 85+ conference publications.
qResearch on sustainable, resilient infrastructure using advanced materials and tools.
qChair, CSCE concrete structures; voting member, ACI 341.
qInterests: seismic bridge design/retrofit, multi-hazard resilience, high-performance materials, AI in structures.
Seminar Overview:
The seminar introduces recent efforts in utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the resilience and performance assessment of built infrastructure under extreme loads and seismic hazards. It explores innovative frameworks for evaluating structural behavior using physics-based data and AI-driven predictive models.
Key Highlights:
1. AI-driven nonlinear pushover response curves for RC bridge piers.
2. Performance-based damage state evaluation.
3. GUI deployment using neural networks.
4. AI-based framework for condition assessment of existing bridges.
5. Seismic resilience evaluation of regional bridge networks.
