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Gregory Falco, assistant professor of civil and systems engineering and a member of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy, speaks to his research efforts on spotting cyber vulnerabilities and defending against them in the Summer 2022 issue of JHU Engineering magazine. The full text of the article appears below. BY MICHAEL EISENSTEIN // ILLUSTRATIONS BY DAN PAGE Threats…

Todd Chang, a doctoral candidate in Johns Hopkins’ Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE), is working with Tak Igusa, a professor in CaSE and a member of JHU’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) and Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), on applying systems engineering strategies to the field of autonomous vehicles. Can you…

As highly automated systems are becoming more and more popular, assurance challenges have become increasingly visible through high-profile crashes and incidents. In a recently published article for Nature Machine Intelligence, Gregory Falco, assistant research professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), and a team of collaborators…

As news broke on June 24 regarding a deadly collapse of a 12-story oceanfront condominium in Surfside, Fla., Benjamin Schafer, Williard and Lillian Hackerman Chair, spoke with Scientific American regarding structural engineering and the long-term significance of the event for building designers. Below is an excerpt from the article, which can be viewed in its…

The institute will serve as the university's interdisciplinary home for ongoing research and education aimed at creating clean, renewable, and sustainable energy technologies.

Wind turbines perched atop slender steel tubular towers have become a common site as the nation’s renewable energy infrastructure expands rapidly. These supporting towers, which have a diameter-to-thickness (D/t) of approximately 150 (and when taking into account how slender they are, sometimes as high as 300), are a remarkable feat of engineering. While the lightweight…

Using an award from the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense University Research Program (DURIP), a team led by Somnath Ghosh, Michael G. Callas Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, is creating a dedicated, high-performance computing cluster aimed at enabling efficient, collaborative solutions to challenging multiphysics/multiscale problems in solids and fluids. The…

The Department of Civil and Systems Engineering is pleased to announce that Kimia Ghobadi and Tak Igusa are part of two separate projects that were recently named as recipients of 2020 Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards. Kimia, the John C. Malone Assistant Professor in the department, is part of a team whose project is titled, “Emulating…

Gregory Falco, an assistant research professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering and a member of the Institute for Assured Autonomy, is part of a team recently awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop a taxonomy for Artificial Intelligence risks that can be used to…

Congratulations to CaSE Associate Professor Lauren Gardner who recently received a Rapid Response Research (RAPID) grant from the National Science Foundation to support the management and development of the COVID-19 online interactive dashboard hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE).   The dashboard was first released publicly on January 22, 2020 to…

The team plans to develop statistical models that could reveal patterns explaining COVID-19’s rapid spread.

Congratulations to CaSE assistant professor Thomas Gernay, whose project “Behavior and Design of Concrete Structures under Natural Fires” was selected by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation as one of the eight projects to receive funding in 2020. Gernay will collaborate with co-principal investigator Patrick Bamonte of Politecnico di Milano on the project, which aims…