Matteo Pozzi
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Professional Activities
Education
University of Trento (Italy) Civil Engineering Laurea (M.S. + B.S.) 2003
University of Trento (Italy) Structural Engineering Ph.D. 2007
University of Trento (Italy) Smart Structures Post-Doc 2010
University of California, Berkley Berkeley Structural Reliability Post-Doc 2012
Appointments
July 2021 - present: Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
June 2021 - July 2022: Visiting Professor, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
July 2017 - June 2021: Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Oct. 2012 - June 2017: Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Professional Qualification
Professional Engineer, registered at the order of engineers of the Province of Trento, Italy (since 2003).
Conference and Session Organization
Co-organizer of a mini-symposium for conference ICOSSAR 2017 (held on 6-10 August, 2017 - TU Wien, Vienna, Austria): “Value of Information in Structural Health Monitoring”.
Organizer of the 2016 Working Conference for the IFIP WG7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, to be held at CMU in May 2016.
Co-organizer of special session on Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs for Engineering Risk Analysis at the next ICASP conference (Vancouver, July 12-15, 2015).
Co-organizer of Special Session on “Statistical Methods for SHM” at the 9th International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring, Stanford University, CA. Sept. 10-12, 2013.
Co-organizer of two mini-symposia for conference ICOSSAR 2013 (held on June 16-20, 2013 - Columbia University, New York, NY): “Structural Health Monitoring: Uncertainty Analysis and Decision Making” and “Bayesian Networks for Engineering Risk Analysis”.
Seminars
at TUM, Munich (ERA group), “Price of optimism and Pessimism in Decision Making,” June 23, 2021.
at Frontiers in monitoring-supported decision making for structures and infrastructures, “Risk Based Decisions in Operation and Maintenance,” TUM, Munich, June 10, 2021.
at IABSE Conference Seoul 2020, “A Journey of Exploration through Infrastructure Systems: from Value of Information to Information Avoidance”, keynote speaker, November 9-10, 2020.
at 1st Int. Workshop on Risk and Resilience of Industrial installations against natural threats and mitigation strategies, “Decision making, maintenance, operation and resilience ,” Prague, July 20, 2018.
at COST-TU1402 Training School on the Value of SHM Information, “VoI in spatially distributed systems,” November 8, 2017.
at Johns Hopkins University (CE dept.), “Adaptive Exploration of Infrastructure Systems: Inference and Optimization,” November 2, 2017.
at 1st International Summer School on Mechanics and Performance of Resilient Structures & Infrastructures, Univ. of Trento, July 3-7, 2017.
at Trinity College, Dublin, IR, for the 9th WorkShop of the COST Action TU1402: “exploring infrastructure systems free and constrained sensing optimization,” May 29, 2017.
at Rice University (CEE dept.), “Adaptive Monitoring and Maintenance Planning for Infrastructure Systems,” November 18, 2016.
at University of Strathclyde (CEE dept.), “Optimal Learning for Infrastructure Systems,” November 10, 2016.
at Cornell University (CEE dept.), “Probabilistic Risk Analysis and Decision Optimization applied to Civil Infrastructures,” April 4, 2016.
at Tufts University (CEE dept.), “Value of information of monitoring infrastructure systems: from sensor placement to inspection scheduling,” April 1, 2016.
at Northeastern University (CEE dept.), “Value of information of monitoring infrastructure systems: from sensor placement to inspection scheduling,” March 31, 2016.
at Princeton University (CEE dept.), “how we should collect data for infrastructure management: assessing the value of information in sensor placement and inspection scheduling,” March 30, 2016.
at Columbia University (CEEM dept.), “Integrated monitoring and maintenance planning for infrastructure systems,” March 29, 2016.
at Lehigh University (CEE dept.), “Integrated monitoring and maintenance planning for infrastructure systems,” March 25, 2016.
at University of Notre Dame (CEE dept.), “Value of information for spatially distributed systems and for sequential decision making,” March 4, 2016.
at University of Pittsburgh (CEE Dept.), “Exploring infrastructure systems: sensor placement and inspection scheduling by assessing the value of information,” September 30, 2015.
at ETH (Switzerland), to the research group of A. Krause: “Exploration of infrastructure systems: sensor placement and inspection scheduling by assessing the value of information,” August 3, 2015.
at EPFL (Switzerland), to the research group of I. Smith: “Monitoring infrastructure systems: theory and practice of the value of information,” July 30, 2015.
at 4th International Summer School Smart Materials & Structures, University of Trento, July 6-9, 2015.
at opening day, Doctoral school in civil, environmental and mechanical engineering, University of Trento: “Optimistic vs pessimistic planning for infrastructure systems,” March 4, 2015.
at Structural Engineering Graduate Seminar, University of Michigan: “Learning and planning for infrastructure systems,” November 13, 2014.
at the Field Robotic Center retreat, seminar “Civil infrastructures for robots,” March 13, 2014.
at the CEE dept. seminar, CMU: “Learning and planning for infrastructure systems,” April 4, 2014.
at the “Reliability seminars” in the University of California, Berkeley:
July 21, 2010: “Bayesian updating for long-term monitoring of structures”
January 26, 2011: “How to assess the value of information provided by a monitoring system”
March 2, 2011: “Model-based and residual-based approaches to damage detection”
April 27, 2011: “The utility of sensors for post-earthquake decision support”
October 5, 2011: “Non parametric regression for estimating the Value of Information”
January 19, 2012: “Response spectrum analysis for floor acceleration”
April 5, 2012: “Bayesian network with Gaussian variables for post-earthquake emergency management”
September 11, 2013: “Optimal planning and learning for management of wind farms”
at Stanford University (CEE dept.) for guest lecture “Structural health monitoring and decision making using Bayesian networks” (Tue, May 22, 2012).
at the Institute of Engineering Mechanics - University of Innsbruck for guest lecture “Data analysis for structural health monitoring: the strain flexibility based method and the Bayesian approach to scenario selection” (January 24, 2008).
Grants
2019
CMU Scott Institute Seed Grants: “Forecasting induced seismicity by integrating physics-based models with machine learning” (PI), with K. Dayal and A. Singh (Co-PIs), [$75,000].
NSF SES DRMS: “Attitude towards information in multi-agent settings: Understanding and mitigating Avoidance and Over-Evaluation” (PI), with M.-F. Balcan and S. Saccardo (Co-PIs), [$413,000].
2017
NSF CMMI IMEE: “From Future Learning To Current Action: Long-Term Sequential Infrastructure Planning Under Uncertainty” (PI), with P. Adams and K. Klima (Co-PIs), [$550,000].
NSF GEO PREEVENTS Track 2: Collaborative Research: “SHADE: Surface Heat Assessment for Developed Environments” (PI), with M. Berges, K. Klima (Co-PIs), and E. Bou-Zeid (PI at Princeton), [$820,000: $515,000 to CMU + $305,000 to Princeton].
NSF CAREER in CMMI CIS: “CAREER: Infrastructure Management under Model Uncertainty: Adaptive Sequential Learning and Decision Making”, [$500,000] .
Siebel Energy Institute 2017 Research Grants: “Resilience of the Integrated Urban Infrastructure Under Extreme Events: A Sequential Decision-making Approach” (PI), with B. Sinopoli (Co-PI) [$50,000].
Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) grant: "Integrating Robotic Exploration and Adaptive Modeling of Infrastructure Networks" (PI), with S. Kar (Co-PI), [$50,000].
CMU College of Engineering research equipment grant: “A Computational Lab for the Advanced Infrastructure Systems research group”, (PI), with M. Berges, S. Qian, X. Liu (Co-PIs) [$50,000].
2016
NSF CMMI CRISP Type 1/Collaborative Research: “A Computational Approach for Integrated Network Resilience Analysis Under Extreme Events for Financial and Physical Infrastructures” (PI), with B. Sinopoli (Co-PI), and A. Minca (PI at Cornell), [$500,000: $350,000 to CMU + $150,000 to Cornell].
Pennsylvania Water Resources Research Center: “Assessing Climate Change and Energy Choice Impacts on Drinking Water Quality in Pennsylvania” (Co-PI), with J. Vanbriesen (PI), and C. Samaras (Co-PI) [$43,390].
Gift of People Gas: "Strategic Pipeline Replacement Planning: Analytics and Monitoring" (Co-PI), with M. Berges (PI), B. Akinci, P. Adams, A. Robinson (Co-PIs) [$240,000]
CMU Scott Institute Seed Grants: “Resilience of electric energy systems to extreme events: a sequential decision making perspective” (PI), with B. Sinopoli (Co-PI), [$20,000].
CMU Scott Institute Seed Grants: “Hazard and risk modeling of induced seismicity” (PI), with M. Small (Co-PI), [$72,710].
CMU Scott Institute Seed Grants: “Simultaneous Multiple Fault Diagnosis for Air Handling Units to Improve Building Energy Efficiency using Hybrid Modeling Approach” (Co-PI), with H. Noh (PI) and X. Liu (Co-PI), [$70,710].
2015
CMU Metro21 Award: “SHADE (Surface Heat Assessment for Developed Environments)” (PI), with M. Berges, K. Klima, E. Bou-Zeid (Co-PIs), [$37,000].
CMU Berkman Faculty Development Grant: “Conducting development research and building scientific relationships on the topic of sensing networks for urban systems” (PI) [$4,200].
2014
Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance (PITA) grant: “Probabilistic condition assessment for wind turbine components” (PI) with J. Zico Kolter (Co-PI) [$40,000].
CMU College of Engineering research equipment grant: “Wireless sensing network for monitoring the new Scott Hall Building”, (PI).
2013
CMU College of Engineering research equipment grant: “A new instrumented lab for modeling and monitoring of civil systems”, (Co-PI).
2010
European Commission within the 7th European Framework Program 2007-2013 - specific program Persons: “InfraRiskNet”, (PI) [€180,000].
Awards
NSF CAREER award, 2017, from the "Civil Infrastructure Systems" program: "Infrastructure Management under Model Uncertainty: Adaptive Sequential Learning and Decision Making".
Best Paper Award at 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2009, SPOTS track), San Francisco, CA, April 13-16, 2009, for paper: Ceriotti M., Mottola L., Picco G.P., Murphy A.L., Guna S., Corrà M., Pozzi M., Zonta D., Zanon P. “Monitoring Heritage Buildings with Wireless Sensor Networks: The Torre Aquila Deployment”.
Membership
SPIE; ASCE; EMI; ISHMII; SRA; Scientific committee of the ICASP12 conference (July 12-15, 2015, Vancouver);
Organizer committee for the International Bridge Conference in Pittsburgh;
Editorial Board for the journals “Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure” (Taylor & Francis) and “Reliability Engineering and System Safety” (Elsevier);
Review Editor for the topic of “Structural Sensing” of the “Frontiers in Built Environment” journal; Vice-chair of IFIP WG 7.5.
Reviewer For
Earthq. Eng. & Struct. Dyn. (Wiley); Rel. Eng. & Sys. Safety; Eng. Struct.; Mech. Sys. & Sign. Proc. (Elsevier); J. of Bridge Eng.; J. of Comp. in Civ. Eng.; J. of Struct. Eng.; J. of Aerosp. Eng. (ASCE); J. of Civ. Struct. Health Monit. (Springer); Struct. & Infrastr. Eng. (Taylor & Francis); J. of Intell. Mat. Sys. & Struct. (SAGE); Smart Mat. and Struct. (IOPscience).