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Events for April
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Thu, Apr 07, 2022 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Jiaqi Ma, Assoc Director, UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Talk Title: OpenCDA: An Open Cooperative Driving Automation Research Framework
Abstract: This presentation introduces OpenCDA, an open co-simulation-based research engineering framework integrated with prototype cooperative driving automation (CDA, SAE J3216) pipelines that contains perception, localization, planning, control, and V2X communication modules. The purpose of the framework is to take an integrated approach to CDA research that considers closed-loop autonomy to investigate the performance of automated driving components driven by conventional and AI algorithms and their impacts on resultant vehicular and traffic behavior under various environments. It not only enables CDA studies in a CARLA -SUMO co-simulation environment but also provides rich research pipelines (i.e., open-source codes for basic and advanced CDA modules) and training-testing datasets. It supports various levels and categories of information sharing and cooperation between automated vehicles in simulation testing. OpenCDA also offers benchmark testing scenarios, baseline maps, state-of-the-art benchmark algorithms, and selected evaluation metrics. Two recent research on cooperative perception (i.e., OpenCOOD) and cooperative vehicle platooning are discussed to show how OpenCDA enables cutting-edge CDA research.
Biography: Dr. Jiaqi Ma is an Associate Professor at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and Associate Director UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. He has led and managed many research projects funded by U.S. DOT, NSF, state DOTs, and other federal/state/local programs covering areas of smart transportation systems, such as vehicle-highway automation, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), connected vehicles, shared mobility, and large-scale smart system modeling and simulation, and artificial intelligence and advanced computing applications in transportation. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is Member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation, Member of TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications, Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Connected & Autonomous Vehicles Impacts Committee, Co-Chair of the IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee on Smart Mobility and Transportation 5.0.
Host: Dr. Jim Moore and Dr. Ketan Savla
More Info: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91873923659 Meeting ID: 918 7392 3659
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91873923659 Meeting ID: 918 7392 3659 Pass: 975701Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - 101
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91873923659 Meeting ID: 918 7392 3659 Pass: 975701
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
Event Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91873923659 Meeting ID: 918 7392 3659
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Thu, Apr 14, 2022 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Yue Yue Fan, University of California, Davis
Talk Title: Physics-informed data analytics approaches using constrained optimization - exploiting domain knowledge and hard information in a transportation network
Abstract: Please see attached abstract and bio.
Host: Dr. Jim Moore
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91873923659 Meeting ID: 918 7392 3659 Pass: 975701More Information: YueYue Fan-Abstract_ Bio.pdf
Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91873923659 Meeting ID: 918 7392 3659 Pass: 975701
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Astani Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Fri, Apr 15, 2022 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. YueYue Fan, and Dr. Daan Liang, National Science Foundation
Talk Title: Funding opportunities for research related to infrastructure systems and smart and connected communities at National Science Foundation
Abstract: In this meeting, Dr. Yueyue Fan and Dr. Daan Liang from the Civil, Mechanical, & Manufacturing Innovation CMMI Division at NSF will discuss funding opportunities related to infrastructure systems, disasters and resilience, and smart connected communities at the National Science Foundation. Challenges brought by problems in these areas often require cross-disciplinary efforts from engineering, mathematics, and physical and social sciences. Therefore, we would welcome audience from broad academic communities. Specifically, We will focus on four NSF programs: Civil Infrastructure Systems CIS, Human, Disaster, and Built Environment HDBE, Cyber Physical Systems CPS, and Smart and Connected Communities S&CC, including their scopes, review criteria, and different expectations. Solicitations supporting large- scale research infrastructure development, including MRI and CDS&E, will also be discussed. We also hope to use this opportunity to gather your input regarding critical research gaps and research infrastructure needs.
Host: Dr. James Moore
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/95126666153 Passcode: 527255Location: Ray R. Irani Hall (RRI) - 321
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/95126666153 Passcode: 527255
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Thu, Apr 21, 2022 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Mr. Gerald Jerry Buckwalter, Chief Innovation Officer, American Society of Civil Engineers
Talk Title: Future World Vision: Engineering the Future Built Environment
Abstract: From climate change to autonomous vehicles, engineers are confronting a variety of environmental challenges, demographic shifts and technological changes that will require a drastic rethinking of how we build, operate, and maintain our infrastructure systems. Planning for the future is difficult for nearly every organization. ASCE decided to launch the Future World Vision project to help meet this challenge. We compiled and winnowed more than hundred global macrotrends to examine six important sociopolitical, economic, environmental, and technological trends as key drivers of change for future built infrastructure.
Our desire is that the Future World Vision project will establish ASCE and civil engineers as bold thought leaders, provide a platform to envision the future built environment and ultimately optimize future system performance and the benefit to society, and be a next generation tool that interacts and resonates with those who will create the future built environment the next generation of civil engineers. The Future World Vision platform is an immersive computer model, using gaming engines, that will create virtual future worlds with evocative visuals, multiple characters and rich narratives that explore holistic city, community and neighborhood systems, including the cultural, social, economic, political, ethical and environmental aspects at different scales. This platform will enable engineers to ask the right questions about a future built environment that does not exist yet, contemplate solutions, postulate the resulting benefit to society well in advance of starting to design those solutions. This will enable us to better prepare engineers today for possible future needs and challenges.
Biography: Gerald Jerry E. Buckwalter has more than 35 years of varied executive leadership in general management, business development, strategy and innovation, program operations and policy development. He has worked in infrastructure, electronics, information technology, commercial security, and technology services markets, spanning military, government, international and commercial domains.
Mr. Buckwalter is the Chief Innovation Officer of ASCE and was formerly the Chief Operating and Strategy Officer. In that role, Jerry directs a forward-leaning strategic assessment and visualization project called Future World Vision where ASCE is creating a virtual and interactive computer model to assess potential built environments 50 years into the future. He also has his own consulting firm, Strategy Essentials, where he specializes in business, market, and technology strategic planning.
Prior to joining ASCE, Mr. Buckwalter was a Northrop Grumman Corporate Director of Strategy. His responsibilities included reshaping the company business portfolio, mergers and acquisitions, long-term strategies, innovation initiatives and professional development. Jerry worked for many years coordinating company-wide homeland security business in border and transportation security, emergency preparedness and response, critical infrastructure protection and intelligence gathering.
Mr. Buckwalter earned a degree in Physics from Monmouth University and has extensive continuing education at George Washington University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Host: Dr. Burcin Becerik
Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91873923659 Meeting ID: 918 7392 3659 Pass: 975701Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209
WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91873923659 Meeting ID: 918 7392 3659 Pass: 975701
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
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Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Seminar
Thu, Apr 28, 2022 @ 12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Sara Billington, Chair and UPS Foundation Professor , Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
Talk Title: Hybrid Physical Plus Digital Spaces for Enhanced Sustainability and Wellbeing
Abstract: Please see attached abstract bio and a photo. Thank you.
Host: Dr. Burcin Becerik-Gerber
More Info: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91873923659 Meeting ID: 918 7392 3659
More Information: S. Billington-abstract-bio.pdf
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 526
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Evangeline Reyes
Event Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/91873923659 Meeting ID: 918 7392 3659
