Smith

Ian Smith is the director of the Georg Nemetschek Institute, AI for the Built World, at the
Technical University of Munich, Germany. He earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and a PhD in engineering sciences from the University of Cambridge (UK). From 1996-2020, he was professor of structural engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

His research interests are on intersections of computer science with structures and urban systems. In 2003, he co-authored Fundamentals of Computer-Aided Engineering. The second edition was published in 2013. In 2004, he was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences and in 2005, received the Computing in Civil Engineering Award from the ASCE. He is an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 2011. From 2010-2020, he directed a research group in Asia as principal investigator at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory, CREATE, Singapore. His professional registration is with SIA, Swiss Engineers and Architects. Ian lives in Lausanne, Switzerland.