Communications Engineering Selects Paper by CEE’s Simos Gerasimidis, Chengbo Ai, and Colleagues as “Editor’s Choice”
For steel bridges, rust (which, as the saying goes, “never sleeps”) has historically led to catastrophic bridge failures, resulting in numerous fatalities and injuries. Now, one groundbreaking solution to that momentous issue has been signaled by the respected journal Communications Engineering, which has selected a collaborative paper published by Associate Professors Simos Gerasimidis and Chengbo Ai of the UMass Amherst Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department and five international colleagues for the distinguished status of “Editor’s Choice” for its 2024 issues. As the Communications Engineering editors summarized the trailblazing research, “Significantly, the approach replaces labor-intensive, subjective evaluations with a robust, automated system.”