Data Science Institute: Smart Cities Center

The Data Science Institute: Smart Cities Center, located at 1401, 550 West 120th Street, New York, New York, United States, focuses on developing, monitoring, and improving infrastructure, buildings, transportation routes, power supply, and everyday activities in urban environments. The institution's research aims to address issues with aging urban infrastructure, enhance smart grid technology, optimize transportation routes in congested traffic, and deploy sensing devices throughout cities.

One of the upcoming projects at the institute is the iCubed Seminar featuring Nayan Paul from Accenture in Spring 2024. This project aims to combine different sensor types in a dynamic monitoring network to identify structural model parameters effectively. The research will address challenges in nonlinear dual state and parameter estimation problems using various sensor measurements.

The institute plans to validate the theoretical developments and identification approach through experiments on building structures and a long-span bridge dataset. The study is expected to provide a validated approach for maximizing the use of heterogeneous sensor networks in structural health monitoring, benefiting the structural engineering community and improving life safety.

Additionally, the principal investigator has an industry/agency outreach plan to introduce the dual state-parameter estimation concepts in a graduate course. The project will also offer advanced training opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students through their involvement in the research.