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).