The Center for Smart Infrastructure and Sustainability (CSIS) dedicates to advancing research, technology, education, and policies that promote intelligent and sustainable infrastructure development. By leveraging interdisciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge technologies, CSIS will serve as a catalyst for transformative change towards a more resilient and sustainable future. CSIS endeavors to develop a distinctive and high-impact array of activities, guided by the following vision, mission, and values, aimed at making a positive difference for stakeholders and the broader community:
Vision: To elevate SUNY Polytechnic Institute as a national leader in advancing innovative solutions for resilient, intelligent, and sustainable infrastructure systems
Mission: The center synthesizes efforts across the university to advance research, education, and innovation in the development and management of infrastructure systems that are intelligent, resilient, and sustainable that contributes to the well-being of society and the planet.
Values: Innovation, Community, Education, Inclusion, Collaboration
Research Themes
CSIS integrates expertise in structural engineering, energy systems, artificial intelligence, digital modeling, sustainability, and community engagement to address critical challenges facing infrastructure in the 21st century.
Guided by its Advisory Board, CSIS has consolidated its expertise into three distinctive, high-impact research themes to strengthen global benchmarking, enhance competitiveness, and amplify societal impact.
- Resilient Energy and Infrastructure Systems
Focus: Multi-hazard resilience of critical infrastructure supporting the energy transition.
Scope:
- Climate-resilient infrastructure subjected to extreme wind, seismic, flood, fire, and cascading hazards
- Offshore and onshore renewable energy systems, including wind and grid-interactive infrastructure
- Infrastructure performance under coupled physical, environmental, and operational stresses
- Reliability, risk, and resilience metrics for energy and civil infrastructure systems
Atmospheric Icing and Infrastructure Risk
Fire modeling: automatized CUFSM-SAFIR interfacing for CFS member analysis under fire
Geotechnical seismic isolation, damping, and protection using rocking foundations
Offshore wind foundation: an integrated design with modeling, optimization, and fabrication
Faculty members of the CSIS center:
Director: Dr. Zhanjie Li
Associate Director: Dr. Sivapalan Gajan, Dr. Tabiri Asumadu, Dr. Iulian Gherasoiu
SUNY Poly Faculty members:
Dr. Wole Soboyejo, Dr. Andy Wolfe, Dr. Bill Durgin, Dr. Aarthi Sekaran, Dr. Abolfazl Karimpour, Dr. Jiayue Shen, Dr. Kazi Imran, Dr. Shuang Tang, Dr. Juan Henao, Dr. Asif Ahmed, Mark Mattson, Dr. Arjun Singh, Dr. Se Jung Kim, Dr. Ahmed Abdelaal, Dr. Priyangshu Sen, Dr. Gunyaz Ablay, Dr. Robert Edgell
