Maria Q. Feng

Biography

Professor Feng received her B.S.from Southeast University in China in 1982 and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from theUniversity of Tokyo in 1992. She started her academic career at Princeton University in 1990 as a Research Associate. She joined the faculty at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 1992 where he served at first as an Assistant Professor, then an Associate Professor, a Professor, and most recently as a Chancellor’s Professor. She was the founding Director of the Center for Advanced Monitoring and Damage Inspection at UCI. Professor Feng joined the Columbia faculty in 2012 as Renwick Professor of Civil Engineering, an endowed professorship.

Research Interest

Sustainability of civil infrastructural systems through multidisciplinary research on sensors, smart structures, and sensor-based structural health monitoring and system control for intelligent maintenance to minimize life-cycle cost and enhance system safety against natural and man-made hazards