Can Balkaya
I am a Project Manager & Structural Forensic Engineer at BUPIM International Project Consulting Co. I received my Ph.D. degree in Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1994 in 1.5 years. I have an engineering background with a balance of theory and research, complemented by a variety of my academic and industrial practices in the design of steel, reinforced concrete, and prestressed concrete structures. I worked at US Army Construction Engineering Research Lab. (USACERL) Champaign on seismic and structural performance evaluation of MAGLEV with Prof. William J. Hall; Clark Dietz Inc. (Structural Design Engineer), Champaign; Kiska-Kajima Washington DC (Project Manager), Marino Engineering Consultants (Seismic Structural Forensic Engineer) Champaign in the USA. I have more than 15 years of experience in Structural Engineering as a design engineer as well as a project manager and project coordinator on international projects for water reservoirs consisting of a post-tensioned cylindrical wall and precast dome elements, design, and construction of vertical reinforced concrete port silos, RC and steel building structures, water treatment plants, steel structures for ammonia-urea industrial plants, and tall buildings. I passed the FE /EIT, Structural I, and Structural II A.M. sessions for a Structural Engineer license in Illinois (not completed as I returned to Turkey). I took the 16-hour SE exams on October 20-21, 2022 in Chicago. I have academic experience at UIUC as Visiting Scholar and Graduate Research Assistant on finite element analysis, and nonlinear material modeling with Prof. W.C. Schnobrich and Prof. David A. Pecknold. I worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor in Structural Engineering Department (1996-2008) at Middle East Technical University (METU) to teach Steel Structures, RC Structures, and Tall Building Design courses. I have also experience in condition and seismic assessment, retrofitting of structures, forensic engineering, and AI applications in engineering. I worked on R&D Projects supported by the Turkish National Science Foundation and European Union LdV Projects on seismic performance evaluation, GIS system, disaster management, and structural monitoring.
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Today’s companies have realized the situation and thought that artificial intelligence technologies can add value for their companies. With the increase in the use of artificial intelligence in daily life, many sectors tend to this direction as well as engineering applications. Big Data allows storage and increasing data space. This data is easy to access and safe because it is stored in cloud technology. Moreover, this data can be classified by machine learning. Advanced artificial intelligence algorithms are used to provide fast and effective solutions in line with the data received from real-time is used condition assessment, risk assessment and emergency and disaster managements.
Disaster management, industrial production, engineering design and construction, maintenance, sustainability, control and manage data in real time by using sensors, monitoring information, energy distribution, traffic congestion, environmental solutions are efficiently developed and implemented integrated solutions in AI and Big Data. Such as traffic and transportation data, infrastructure data, early warning systems to improve the management and efficiency of the urban environment and traffic safety.
Proceedings and presentations include case studies and practical applications, innovative techniques in engineering applications. On the other hand, the principal mission of ICAIBDEA this international conference is bridging the gap between universities and sectors for artificial intelligence applications in engineering fields, encouraging interdisciplinary research applications and bringing multidisciplinary researchers together.
Conference topics include engineering applications in industrial product design, industrial engineering, engineering management/disaster management, energy systems, smart systems, smart cities, transportation, cyber security, waste management, agriculture, mechatronics, robotics, control systems/monitoring/ GIS, civil engineering/structures, infrastructure projects, information systems/ expert systems, machine learning techniques, data collection systems, biosensors, computer aided design and applications, optimum designs, database/data mining, and other AI and Big Data analytics engineering applications. ICAIBDEA2021 is organized by Istanbul Aydın University.
We hope that the national and international academic community and industrial practitioners will continue for networking and future collaborations between the conference participants. We are also hoping to meet in healthy days and face-to- face meetings in the future.
Finally, thanks to invited key-note speaker, Distinguished Professor David Arditi from Illinois Institute of Technology for his valuable speech on AI and construction management applications.
Prof.Dr. Can Balkaya
Conference Chair and Editor