• Technical Coordinator, Civil Systems Group
• Affiliate Appointment, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, and Scientific Computation
• Guest Editor, Systems, Special Issue on Civil Systems Engineering
  Paper submissions are due April 30/2021.
• Contact Information
• Résumé

FALL SEMESTER, 2024

• ENCE 201 Engineering Information Processing (In-Person) (M,W,F, 2-3pm).
• ENCE 353 Introduction to Structural Analysis (In-Person) (M,W,F, 9-10am).

PREVIOUS SEMESTERS

Graduate-Level Civil Engineering:

• ENCE 688P Data Mining and Machine Learning for the Built Environment (2020-2022) (Online).
• ENCE 688R Civil Information Systems (2019, 2023) (Synchronous Online).

Systems Engineering:

• ENES 489P Hands-On Systems Engineering Projects (2010-2012)
• ENSE 622 Systems Engineering Requirements, Design, and Trade-Off Analysis (2012-2015)
• ENSE 623 Systems Engineering Design Projects, Validation and Verification (2004-2014)

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Model-Based Systems Engineering and Integration.
• Systems Modeling, Analysis, and Design of Cyber-Physical Systems and Digital Twins.
• Algorithms and Computational Tools for Energy-Efficient Building Simulation.
• Semantic Approaches to Distributed Systems Behavior Modeling.
• Multi-Domain Semantic Modeling and Reasoning for Critical Infrastructure Protection and Recovery.
• Machine Learning Algorithms for Observation and Modeling of Urban Systems.

New Project (2024--):

• Semantic Foundations and Formal Methods for Evolutionary System-of-System Architectures ,
  DoD Minerva Research Initiative.

Hobby Project (2015-2018,2024--):

• Experimental software development for Whistle.

I am keen to work with new graduate students in the Civil Systems Program (CEE), the Masters of Systems Engineering Program (MSSE at ISR) and the Applied Math Program.

GRADUATE STUDENTS AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

• Maria Coelho (MBSE Scientist at Idaho National Labs): Digital Twins for Integrated Energy Systems
• Sachraa Borjigin (Postdoc at University of Michigan): Multi-Domain Semantic Modeling for Urban Operations.
• Zihui Ma (Helen) (Postdoc): DoD Minerva Research Initiative
• Caitlin Kenney (PhD, Civil Systems): Evolutionary System-of-System Architectures
• Naiyi Li (PhD, Structures): AI/Machine Learning for Wind Turbine Digital Twin Systems (co-advised with Chung Fu)
• Joel Abraham (MS, Systems Engineering): Semantic Foundations for Precision Medicine.

Click here for a list of recent graduates.

Publications listed on Google Scholar .

RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Delgoshaei P., Heidarinejad M., and Austin M.A. , Combined Ontology-Driven and
  Machine Learning Approach to Management of Building Energy Consumption (pdf),
  2018 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild, Chicago, September 26-28, 2018.
  News (Oct. 25, 2022): Our paper is featured in the ASHRAE Journal Newsletter
• Coelho M., Austin M.A., and Blackburn M.R. , The Data-Ontology-Rule Footing: A Building Block for
  Knowledge-Based Development and Event-Driven Execution of Multi-Domain Systems, (pdf),
  2018 Conference on Systems Engineering Research, Charlottsville, VA, May 8-9, 2018.
  Also see: Chapter 21, Systems Engineering in Context, Springer, 2019.
• Blackburn M.R., Austin M.A. and Coelho M. , Modeling and Cross-Domain Dependability Analysis of
  Cyber-Physical Systems (pdf), The 12th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference (SYSCON 2018),
  Vancouver, Canada, April 23-26, 2018, pp. 23-30.

RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Borjigin S.G., and Austin M.A., Multi-Domain Semantic Model and Real-Time Planning Approach to
  Safe and Efficient Airport Taxiway Operations (ieee library),
  IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 25, Issue 7, July 2024, pp. 7738-7750.
• Borjigin S.G., Austin M.A., and Zontek-Carney E., Semiautomated Development of Textual Requirements:
  Combined NLP and Multidomain Semantic Modeling Approach (asce library),
  Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE, Volume 38, Issue 5, September 2022.
  News (Sep't 1, 2022): Our paper has been selected for the Editor's Choice Collection at ASCE.
• Delgoshaei P., Heidarinejad M., and Austin M.A., A Semantic Approach for Building System Operations:
  Knowledge, Representation and Reasoning (Special Issue on Modeling Building Energy and Environmental Systems
  in the Built Environment) (pdf), Sustainability, 14(10), 5810, May 2022.
• Coelho M., Austin M.A., Mishra S., and Blackburn M.R., Teaching Machines to Understand Urban Networks:
  A Graph Autoencoder Approach (pdf), International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services,
  Vol 13, No 3&4, December, 2020, pp. 70-81.
  
• Austin M.A., Delgoshaei P., Coelho M. and Heidarinejad M., Architecting Smart City Digital Twins: Combined
  Semantic Model and Machine Learning Approach (Special Collection on Engineering Smarter Cities with Smart City
  Digital Twins) (asce library), Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE, Volume 36, Issue 4, July 2020.
  

  New: AI-generated audio podcast (wav) takes a ten minute deep dive into our research paper,
  and its place in the larger world of smart cities and digital twins.

• Austin M.A. and Johnson J. , Compositional Approach to Distributed System Behavior Modeling and
  Formal Validation of Infrastructure Operations with Finite State Automata: Application to Viewpoint-Driven
  Verification of Functionality in Waterways (pdf), Systems, Vol. 6, No. 2, January 2018, p. 28.
• Coelho M., Austin M.A. and Blackburn M.R. , Semantic Behavior Modeling and Event-Driven Reasoning for
  Urban System of Systems (pdf), International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems,
  Vol. 10, No 3 and 4, December 2017, pp. 365-382.
• Delgoshaei P. and Austin M.A. , Framework for Knowledge-Based Fault Detection and Diagnostics in
  Multi-Domain Systems: Application to Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning Systems (pdf),
  International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, Vol. 10, No 3 and 4, December 2017, pp. 393-409.
• Petnga L. and Austin M.A. , Model-Based Design and Formal Verification Processes for Automated Waterway
  System Operations (pdf), Systems: Special Issue on Product, Process, System Design Review Methods and
  Tools, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2016, p. 23.
• Petnga L. and Austin M.A. , An Ontological Framework for Knowledge Modeling and Decision Support in
  Cyber-Physical Systems (pdf), Advanced Engineering Informatics, Vol. 30, No. 1, January 2016, pp. 77-94.

RECENT AWARD PUBLICATIONS

• Coelho M., and Austin M.A. , Teaching Machines to Understand Urban Networks (pdf),
  The Fifteenth International Conference on Systems (ICONS 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, February 23-27, 2020, pp. 37-42.
  Best Paper Award.
• Coelho M., Austin M.A. and Blackburn M. , Distributed System Behavior Modeling of Urban Systems with Ontologies,
  Rules and Many-to-Many Association Relationships (pdf),
  The Twelth International Conference on Systems (ICONS 2017), Venice, Italy, April 23-27, 2017, pp. 10-15.
  Best Paper Award.
• Arellano A., Carney E. and Austin M.A. , Natural Language Processing of Textual Requirements (pdf),
  The Tenth International Conference on Systems (ICONS 2015), Barcelona, Spain, April 19-24, 2015.
  Best Paper Award.
• Austin M.A., Delgoshaei P. and Nguyen A. , Distributed Systems Behavior Modeling with Ontologies, Rules, and
  Message Passing Mechanisms (pdf), Procedia Computer Science, vol. 44, pp. 373--382, 2015.
  MITRE Best Transition in Systems Engineering Research Award.
• Petnga L. and Austin M.A. , Ontologies of Time and Time-based Reasoning for MBSE of Cyber-Physical Systems (pdf),
  Procedia Computer Science, vol. 16, pp. 403--412, 2013.
  Best Conference Paper Award.
• Mosteller M., Austin M.A., Yang S. and Ghodssi R. , Platforms for Engineering Experimental Biomedical Systems (pdf),
  14th Annual International Symposium of The International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE 2012),
  Rome, Italy, July 9-12, 2012.
  Best Paper Award.

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Last Modified: June 26, 2024.