News from 2019
10/2019: Dr. Paal was awarded a grant from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) for work on the development of a real-time decision support tool for rural roadway safety improvements. This work is a collaborative effort with several researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute. The PI of the project is Dr. Subasish Das.
07/17/2019: Dr. Paal was invited to speak at the Software Developer's Cartel in Downtown Bryan, Texas.
07/03/2019: Dr. Paal was invited to speak at the DesignSafe-QuakeCoRE Cyberinfrastructure workshop in Nelson, New Zealand regarding her work towards machine learning for seismic performance prediction of reinforced concrete components.
08/26/2019: The American Concrete Institute (ACI) Strategic Development Council (SDC) invited Dr. Paal to speak at their 46th Technology Forum on Integrating traditional civil engineering practices with artificial intelligence: a hybrid approach to our understanding of structural behavior in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
05/30/2019: Dr. Paal was invited to speak at the NSF-CMMI Annual Site Visit on her use of the DesignSafe Cyberinfrastructure in her research in Austin, Texas.
04/30/2019: New Publication in Wiley's Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering: A locally-weighted machine learning model for generalized prediction of drift capacity in seismic vulnerability assessments. Paal Research Group Ph.D. student Huan Luo and Dr. Paal are co-authors on the publication. Read it here!
04/24/2019-04/27/2019: Dr. Paal and Paal Research Group Ph.D. student, Huan Luo, presented at the ASCE Structures Congress in Orlando, Florida. Huan presented a "Performance Comparison between Formulas and AI-based models in predicting shear strength of RC columns", and Dr. Paal gave a presentation on her vision for "The Future of Structural Sensing".
Dr. Paal also organized the session on The Future of Structural Sensing along with David Lattanzi from George Mason University.
Above: Ph.D. student, Huan Luo, presenting at the 2019 Structures Congress.
Right: Dr. Paal and colleagues from her time at Georgia Tech reunited at the 2019 Structures Congress!
04/08/2019: Paal Research Group Ph.D. student Samuel Leach has been awarded the 2019 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship! The three-year fellowship is a significant and prestigious national accomplishment!
04/05/2019: Dr. Paal hosted Matthew Vanture, VDC Manager at Whiting-Turner, for the CGS Graduate Seminar Series. Matt gave a presentation entitled Science Fiction or Construction Reality...Augmented Reality in Construction.
04/04/2019:
Hongrak Pak, Ph.D. student in the Paal Research Group, presented at the TAMU President's Excellence Fund Symposium regarding in-situ deficiency detection and characterization for automated structural repair. This work is funded through the T3: Texas A&M Triads for Transformation program.
03/2019: Dr. Paal has been selected as an ASCE ExCEEd fellow. She will attend the 2019 ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop at the United States Military Academy at West Point July 21-28, 2019.