The UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (CSI) hosted a visit by the California Energy Commission (CEC) on Monday, October 7. CSI co-directors Kenichi Soga and Matt DeJong provided a guided tour for Pooya Khodaparast, CEC’s Commission Agreement Manager (CAM) on the OpenSRA 2 project. 

Congratulations to Continuing Lecturer Jasenka Rakas on being elected to the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Class of 2025 Associate Fellows!

Congratulations to CEE Professor Marta Gonzalez on winning the Lagrange Prize - CRT Foundation, the highest international award for Complex Systems and Data Science!

Congratulations to CEE students, postdocs and faculty members for receiving the 2024 Institutional Lead Award by the IEEE ITSS for the CIRCLES project! The CEE awardees includes postdoc Hossein Nick Zinat Matin, Ph.D. students Han Wang, Sulaiman Almatrudi, Arwa AlAnqary, Zhe Fu, Alben Rome Bagabaldo, Joy Carpio, Abdul Rahman Kreidieh, and faculty members Maria Laura Delle Monache and Alex Bayen.

The International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering has issued a special volume: Nonlinear Methods in Finite Elements for Solids - An issue celebrating the 90th Birthday of Bob Taylor.  This celebratory volume honoring Prof. Taylor was edited by Berkeley Profs. Govindjee and Papadopoulos together with Prof. Wriggers from Leibnitz University, Hannover Germany.  

CEE Professor William Ibbs has been appointed by State Controller Betty Yee to serve as the Chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority (HSRA) Peer Review Committee. Prior to his recent appointment, he has served as a member of the committee for the past year. The purpose of the Committee is to review the planning, engineering, financing, and other elements of the HSRA business plan and review funding plans prior to requests for appropriation of bond proceeds for capital cost expenditures.