Plenary Sessions & Speakers
Shirley J. Dyke
Coates Professor of Innovation in Mechanical Engineering & Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering
Director, Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Lab
Director, Resilient ExtraTerrestial Habitats Institute
Purdue University
Professor Shirley Dyke holds a joint appointment in Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering at Purdue University. She is the Director of Purdue's Intelligent Infrastructure Systems Lab and the Director of the NASA-funded Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitat Institute. Her research focuses on “intelligent” structures, and her innovations encompass structural health monitoring and machine learning for structural damage assessment and reconnaissance support. She holds a B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Universityof Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1996. Dyke is the past Editor-in-Chief of the journal Engineering Structures. She was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from NSF (1998), the George Housner Medal by ASCE (2022), the SHM Person of the Year Award (2021), the International Association on Structural Safety and Reliability Junior Research Award (2001) and the ANCRiSST Young Investigator Award (2006).

