Smart Infrastructure

Smart infrastructure integrates digital technologies into physical infrastructure to improve efficiency, safety, and sustainability. Current research emphasizes enhancing security against adversarial attacks on predictive models (e.g., using adversarial training and model hardening), developing robust communication frameworks for data transfer and model deployment (e.g., communication-aware machine learning), and leveraging multimodal data (e.g., visual, acoustic, and IMU data) for improved perception and decision-making in applications like traffic management and waste collection. This field is significant for its potential to optimize resource allocation, enhance safety in transportation systems, and create more resilient and sustainable urban environments.