Prof. Dr. Andrew Smyth received his Sc.B. and A.B. degrees at Brown
University in 1992 in Civil Engineering and Architectural Studies, respectively.
He received his M.S. in Civil Engineering at Rice in 1994, an M.S. in
Electrical Engineering (1997), and his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (1998) at the
University of Southern California. He specializes in structural health
monitoring, using sensor information to determine the condition of critical
infrastructure. He is the chair of the Smart Cities Center at Columbia
University’s Data Science Institute. He has been involved with the sensor
instrumentation and vibration analysis and remote monitoring of a large number
of iconic long-span bridges and landmark buildings and museums. His research
interests include the development of data fusion and system identification
algorithms to derive maximum information from large heterogeneous sensor
networks monitoring dynamical systems, nonlinear system dynamical modeling and
simulation, and natural hazard risk assessment.
