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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…

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

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…

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…

As a solution to the increasing number of COVID-19 patients who require ventilator-related care, James Guest, an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE) and associate director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Additive Manufacturing and Architected Materials, is aiding in the development of a 3D-printed ventilator splitter system designed to…

Prof. Lauren Gardner is the creator of the interactive web-based dashboard being used by public health authorities, researchers, and the general public around the globe to track the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. The dashboard, which debuted on January 22, has been shared by practically every major news outlet worldwide and now receives more than…