Thomas Matarazzo

Adjunct Assistant Professor Thomas Matarazzo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the MIT Senseable City Laboratory and Cornell Tech Information Science. He is currently leading a multidisciplinary research team, in collaboration with industry and several government entities, to better understand how crowdsourced smartphone data from vehicle trips can support bridge maintenance. He specializes in monitoring and intelligence systems for civil and urban infrastructure, mobile sensor networks, autonomous sensing platforms, and multipurpose sensor data and urban services. His objective moving forward has been the integration of data streams in smart cities towards automated infrastructure diagnostics, resilient civil systems, and quantifiably sustainable communities.

Dr. Matarazzo received a B.S. degree (summa cum laude) in civil engineering from Manhattan College in 2010 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in structural engineering from Lehigh University in 2012 and 2015, respectively. He was an NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes research fellow at the Nakashima-Kurata Laboratory in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University, Japan. He continued work on post-earthquake sensing and assessment systems at the lab as a Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences postdoctoral research fellow. He is a recipient of several awards, most recently the Microsoft AI for Earth Award (2018).