Andrew Smyth is the Robert A.W. and Christine S. Carleton Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University. He is the PI and Director NSF Engineering Research Center for Smart Streetscapes and is the Co-Chair of the Smart Cities Center at the Columbia Data Science Institute. He specializes in structural health monitoring, using sensor information to determine the condition of critical infrastructure. His research in sensor network monitoring extends to large fleets of vehicles in urban environments including work on road safety and EMS operations. Smyth has been involved with the sensor instrumentation and vibration analysis and remote monitoring of a large number of iconic long-span bridges and landmark buildings and museums.
He has been a Visiting Professor at the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chausées, Paris, at KU Leuven in Belgium, and at Trinity College, Dublin. In 2018-2019 he served on NY State Governor’s 6 member L-Train Tunnel Review Panel which proposed a rehabilitation redesign obviating the need for a 15-month shutdown. He is the founding co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Intelligent Infrastructure and Resilience. He is the President of the International Association of Structural Control and Monitoring.
Prof. Smyth received his Sc.B. and A.B. degrees at Brown University in Civil Engineering and Architectural Studies respectively, his M.S. in Civil Engineering at Rice and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at the University of Southern California.