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Ian F. C. Smith

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Ian F. C. Smith received his BASc in 1978 from the University of Waterloo, Canada and his PhD from the University of Cambridge, England in 1982. A Professor of Structural Engineering at the L'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne Switzerland, he is Head of the Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory (20 staff) and past Chair of the Structural Engineering Institute (100 staff).

Research activities include development of original computing applications, active structures and sensor development. Many current projects lie on the interfaces between these topics. Teaching activities include a new two-semester computer aided engineering fundamentals course that has been adopted by other universities in North America, Europe and Asia. He has also been active in providing consulting services to industry for more than twenty years.

In addition to sitting on four editorial boards of international scientific journals he is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Engineering Informatics (Elsevier) and Associate Editor of Artificial Intelligence for Engineering, Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (Cambridge). He is the founder and Past Chair of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE) and Past Chair of the Information Technology Committee of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering.

In 2003, he co-authored the text book Fundamentals of Computer Aided Engineering (Wiley). He sits on several technical committees of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) including the Executive Committee of the Technical Council for Computing and Information Technology. He is a Fellow of ASCE and in 2004, he was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. In 2005, he received the ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award.

Personal website: http://imac.epfl.ch/Team/Smith/ian_smith.jsp

EPFL - Ecole Politechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: www.epfl.ch

A link to the departmental web page: is.epfl.ch

IMAC Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory: imac.epfl.ch

A list of the areas of specialization:

Structural engineering, active structures, space applications, mechanics, information science, human-computer interaction, infrastructure monitoring, global sustainability, intelligent CAD