News

2026

Feb 2026: Silver Velasquez Delao joins AiRIS lab as undergraduate student as Scott Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program.

Feb 2026: Angel Garcia joins AiRIS lab as undergraduate student as Scott Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program.

Jan 2026: Abhishek Mina joins AiRIS lab as Ph.D. Student.

Jan 2026: Deeptarka Roy joins AiRIS lab as Ph.D. Student.

Jan 2026: Debasish Jana receives Professional of Engineering Licence (#C 98874) from Board of Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists, California.

2025

Dec 2025: The AiRIS lab and CoSINE lab has received a new funding of $81,139 from Scott High-Impact Research Program to lead 1.5 year project (Jan 2026-May 2027) titled "Statewide Digital Twin for Stress Testing Interconnected Infrastructure Cascades"

Nov 2025: The AiRIS Lab has received a new funding of $15K from Borland Equipment Fund titled "LiDAR Mobile Mapper for Digital-Twin Modeling of Water-Infrastructure Nexus"

Oct 2025: The AiRIS Lab has received new funding of $178K from CTIPS (USDOT) to lead a two-year project (Oct 2025 – Sep 2027) titled “AI-Driven Infrastructure Prioritization: A Vision-Language Model Framework for Capital Planning.”

Sept 2025: Debasish Jana gave a invited talk Southern Illinois University Carbondale, School of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Civil Engineering for the future Webinar, "Data to Decision: Strategies for Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience."  YouTube link.

Sept 2025: Debasish Jana is selected in the TILT Early-Career Teaching Fellows Program ($500) by CSU's The Institute for Learning and Teaching.

Aug 2025: Binita Dahal joins AiRIS lab as a Master's student.

Aug 2025: Debasish Jana joins Colorado State University as an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.

May 2025: AiRIS lab is created by Debasish Jana.