Keynote Lectures
Digital Twin-based Health Monitoring of Long-span Bridges
Professor Yong Xia
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Acoustic emission (AE) has advanced rapidly in recent years, driven by the adoption of AI-based signal processing and real-time decision-making approaches, which enable more rapid and efficient damage detection in civil infrastructure. This special session will focus on recent advances in AE sensing, data processing, and interpretation for assessing the integrity of civil structures such as bridges, buildings, pipelines, nuclear power plants, and composite systems. Topics include sensor development, wave propagation modelling, damage localization, AE-supported structural assessment, AI-based signal classification, and integration of AE with other SHM methods and digital twin frameworks. The session aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to share innovations, experimental work, field applications, and future directions for AE-based SHM.
The Opportunity for Continued Evolution of Infrastructure as an Intelligent Platform for Delivering More Efficient and Resilient Services to Communities
Jerome P. Lynch, Ph.D., F.EMI
Vinik Dean of Engineering
Fitzpatrick Family University Distinguished Professor of Engineering
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University, Durham, NC
Dr. Jerome Lynch is the Vinik Dean of Engineering and Fitzpatrick Family University Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Duke University. Prior to joining Duke in 2022, he was a tenured faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan including serving as the Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Lynch’s research interests are in advancing cyber-physical system (CPS) architectures that combine sensing, computing, and controls to create intelligent infrastructure systems. He is best known for his research portfolio in structural health monitoring. He was the founding Director of the University of Michigan Urban Collaboratory, a cross-campus research institute that facilitates close collaboration with city stakeholders to prototype solutions to community challenges using information technologies and socially engaged design methods. Dr. Lynch’s impact has been recognized by several honors including the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2012 ASCE Leonardo da Vinci Award, 2014 ASCE Huber Award, and 2024 ASCE George W. Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal. He was also elected Fellow of the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute in 2021. Dr. Lynch completed his graduate studies at Stanford University where he received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and M.S. in Electrical Engineering. Dr. Lynch also received his B.E. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Cooper Union.