Ian Smith
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Ian F. C. Smith is a Canadian and Swiss civil engineer and the Director of the TUM Georg Nemetschek Institute Artificial Intelligence for the Built World at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.[1]
Life[edit]
Prof. Smith completed his undergraduate degree in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada (1978)[2] in a five-year program of alternating four-month periods of studying and industrial experience where he worked in structural design offices, a boundary-layer wind tunnel lab (University of Western Ontario) and two steel fabricators in Canada.[citation needed]
After completing his PhD at the Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge, UK in 1982,[2] he continued his research and teaching career at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.[3] Starting in the Civil Engineering Department (1982-1991), he worked on measurement systems, fatigue, and fracture mechanics in several collaborations with industry partners.[citation needed]
He switched to the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory[4] in the Computer Science Department (1991-1996) in order to focus on software applications for the construction industry. Back in the Civil Engineering Department, he was appointed Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2005.[5]
Prof. Smith was Head of the Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory (IMAC) (2000-2020)[6] and Chair of the Structural Engineering Institute at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (2001-2006).[citation needed]
He has been the Director of the TUM Georg Nemetschek Institute Artificial Intelligence for the Built World, Technical University of Munich (TUM), since March 1st, 2021.[1] He is also Emeritus Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland[3] and an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, USA since 2011.[7]
His research activity is on the intersection of computer science with the built environment. In 1993, he founded the European Group for Structural Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EG-SEA-AI).[citation needed] This group later became the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE).[8][not in citation given] The 30th Annual EG-ICE Workshop is in London in July 2023.
In 2003, he co-authored the textbook Engineering Informatics: Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Engineering (Wiley), the 2nd edition of which appeared in June 2013.[9] In 2004, he was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences[2] and in 2005, he received the Computing in Civil Engineering Award from the ASCE.[10] From 2010 to 2020, he directed a second research group in Asia as Principal Investigator at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory, CREATE, Singapore[11]. In 2022, he was elected to the National Academy of Construction, USA.[12]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Prof. Ian Smith to become Founding Director of TUM Georg Nemetschek Institute". Technical University of Munich. 16 February 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "IEEE Author Bio Ian F. C. Smith". IEEE. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Professor Emeritus: Ian F.C. Smith". École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ↑ "LIA Group - People - Ian Smith". Artificial Intelligence Lab (LIA), EPFL. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ↑ Chalard, Claire Hofmann (24 March 2005). "Ian Smith promoted to full professor at the EPFL".
- ↑ "Ian Smith at IMAC". Applied Computing and Mechanics Laboratory at EPFL. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ↑ "Civil and Environmental Engineering: Adjunct Faculty". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ↑ "eg-ice – European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering".
- ↑ Raphael, Benny; Smith, Ian F. C. (June 2013). Engineering Informatics: Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Engineering (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-1-119-95341-8. Search this book on
- ↑ "Computing in Civil Engineering Award - Past Award Winners". American Society of Civil Engineers. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ↑ "Future Cities Laboratory: Alumni". ETH Zurich. Retrieved 2 May 2023.
- ↑ "Construction Hall of Fame Gala 2022" (PDF). National Academy of Construction. 6–8 October 2022.
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