Keynote speakers

Nathan Kutz is the Boeing Professor of Applied Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the AI Institute in Dynamic Systems at the University of Washington, having served as chair of applied mathematics from 2007-2015. He received the BS degree in physics and mathematics from the University of Washington in 1990 and the Phd in applied mathematics from Northwestern University in 1994. He was a postdoc in the applied and computational mathematics program at Princeton University before taking his faculty position. He has a wide range of interests, including neuroscience to fluid dynamics where he integrates machine learning with dynamical systems and control.

Lizzy Cross is a Professor in the Dynamics Research Group at the University of Sheffield, with research interests spanning the fields of structural health monitoring (SHM), machine learning and nonlinear system identification. Most of her research projects focus on the analysis of large datasets from monitored structures, where she employs data-driven algorithms to extract useful information, however, she has recently completed an EPSRC Innovation Fellowship pioneering a physics-informed machine learning approach for these problems. Lizzy is a co-director of the Laboratory for Verification and Validation, a state-of-the-art dynamic testing facility (lvv.ac.uk). She has published over 170 articles, including 50+ journal papers and 8 invited book chapters. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Cambridge Press Data-centric Engineering journal, as well as for the open access journal of Structural Dynamics. She awarded the Achenbach medal which recognises an individual (within 10 years of PhD) who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the field of SHM in 2019.