IoT Thrust Seminar | Towards Intelligent Urban Lifelines
Supporting the below United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:支持以下聯合國可持續發展目標：支持以下联合国可持续发展目标：
Urban lifeline engineering, as a critical component of urban infrastructure, encompasses systems such as gas supply, bridges, water supply, drainage, electricity, and utility tunnels. These systems are highly public in nature, broad in scope, and strongly interdependent, playing a vital role in maintaining the regular operation of a city. However, numerous unresolved theoretical and technical challenges remain in areas such as risk assessment, monitoring, and early warning of urban lifeline systems. Enhancing the functional precision and intelligence of sensing, diagnosis, and early warning capabilities represents a key direction for the development of urban lifeline safety monitoring and early warning technologies. In recent years, Southeast University has leveraged its strengths in civil engineering, transportation, communications, and electronics, integrating cutting-edge technologies such as intelligent sensing, big data, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. These efforts have led to pioneering research in comprehensive supervision, online monitoring, dynamic assessment, and the early warning and prevention of urban lifeline systems—yielding remarkable achievements that significantly contribute to urban safety.
Professor CK Soh, an academician, graduated from Concordia University in Canada in 1979 with a First Class Honours Bachelor’s degree in Engineering. He earned his Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1986 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Wales College of Cardiff in the United Kingdom in 1990. Over a 40-year career at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, he held key positions including Associate Vice President (Research) and Dean of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012 and became a member of the NTU Senate in 2018. From 2005 to 2014, Professor Su served as the Asia-Pacific Chair of the ASCE Global Center of Excellence in Computing under the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Since 2019, he has been consistently listed in both the “Career-Long” and “Single-Year” categories of the World’s Top 2% Scientists, as compiled by Stanford University. He currently serves as a Distinguished Professor at Southeast University, an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Urban Lifeline.