Keynotes

Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. His primary research interest is in the areas of multi-functional materials and intelligent structures with particular emphases on structural health monitoring, self-sensing diagnostics, intelligent sensor networks, and multifunctional energy storage composites for transportation vehicles as well safety-critical assets. He is a recipient of the SHM Lifetime Achievement Award (2004), SPIE NDE Lifetime Achievement Award (2010), and the PHM lifetime Achievement Award (2018). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Structural Health Monitoring. He is also a Fellow of AIAA and ASME.

Charles R. (Chuck) Farrar, Ph. D., PE is currently the leader of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) Engineering Institute and the coordinator of LANL’s Engineering Leadership Council. The first ten years of his career focused on performing experimental and analytical structural dynamics studies for a wide variety of systems including nuclear power plant structures subjected to seismic loading, and weapons components subjected to various portions of their stockpile-to-target loading environments. Since 1992 his research interests have focused on developing integrated hardware and software solutions to structural health monitoring (SHM) and damage prognosis problems. The results of this research have been documented in 400+ co-authored journal publications, conference proceedings and a book entitled Structural Health Monitoring A Machine Learning Perspective. Additional professional activities include an adjunct faculty appointment in the structural engineering department at Univ. of California San Diego where he teaches a course entitle “Structural Health Monitoring Principles,” and the development of a structural health monitoring short course that has been offered more than 45 times to industry and government agencies in Asia, Australia, Europe, South America and the U.S. He is the founder of the Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School and he is a co-developer of the Los Alamos Judicial Science School. He is a Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow and an ASME, ASCE and Society of Experimental Mechanics Fellow.

Associate Professor of Structural and Seismic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. She received her PhD in Seismic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. She leads the SPM3 - Structural Performance Modeling, Management and Monitoring – research group focused on vibration-based and InSAR monitoring, Value of Information of SHM, and SHM Standardization. The group is active in EU and National projects and industry-funded research.
She is an active member with leading roles in several committees and associations in the field of SHM and structural engineering (among others ISHMII, fib, IABSE, and JCSS).
Dr Limongelli serves on the editorial board of several international peer-reviewed journals including Engineering Structures, ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, Journal of Civil SHM, Infrastructures, and Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructures.
She coordinates, or participates in leading roles, in several EU and national projects on Structural Health Monitoring and performance assessment of civil structures and infrastructures.

Jaime Restrepo
CEO of Corporación ROTORR, leading an alliance between Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Fondo de Empleados Docentes (FODUN). He specializes in managing Science, Technology, and Innovation projects with a budget of $33 million. Jaime holds a PhD in Law, Education, and Development from Pegaso International and AUCAL Business School and is currently a PhD student in Social Economy at the Universitat de València. With 19 years of professional experience, including 10 years focused on structuring and managing technological innovation projects, Jaime possesses key skills in systems thinking, assertive communication, and management by results. His proven track record in teamwork and leadership is highlighted by his role in implementing disruptive Industry 4.0 technologies in digital transformation projects, primarily within state entities.

Iván Dario Gómez Lee
Founding Partner of Gomez Lee, a leading advocate in dispute resolution and legal problem-solving, and the visionary force behind I-LEE, dedicated to Legal Innovation and Stability Strategies, the individual is a highly accomplished Attorney at Law with a Ph.D. and Summa Cum Laude recognition for groundbreaking work on legal certainty. Concurrently, the individual serves as the Director of the Master in Senior Management of Public Resources at the Universidad Externado de Colombia, with an impressive portfolio of over 25 publications focused on public procurement law. They are an esteemed member of the Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence and a leader in research lines such as Safe Contracting. Recognized by several presidents for contributions to the efficient functioning of the State, the individual has shifted focus to new environmental projects and the comprehensive protection of public assets.

Francisco J. Carrion is Coordinator of the Coordination of Vehicle Engineering and Structural Integrity of the Mexican Transport Institute. From 1992 to 2023, Dr. Carrion was responsible for the development of the Vehicle Performance and Materials Laboratory Division, specifically for research projects on fracture mechanics, corrosion, structural dynamics, nondestructive testing, and bridge SHM applications for highway bridges. He was responsible for setting up the Bridge and Intelligent Infrastructure Monitoring Center, which includes the most important bridges in Mexico and considers full instrumentation systems for remote monitoring, structural evaluation and prognosis. At present, including the laboratory division projects, he is responsible for directing and coordinating research projects on advance materials applications for the transport sector, and the direction of the national experimental center of technological innovation for vehicle safety. Part of his research activities include direction of 11 graduate thesis, 27 international journal articles, more than 100 articles, courses and technical publications in international and national conferences. He is council member of the ISHMII International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure and has been member of the APS American Physical Society, SPIE The International Society for Optics and Photonics, SAE International and OSA The Optical Society.

Alexis Méndez is President of MCH Engineering LLC, a consulting firm specializing in fiber sensing. He received a PhD. degree in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, USA in 1992. Dr. Méndez was a fellow researcher and the former Group Leader of the Fiber Optic Sensors Lab within ABB Corporate Research (USA) where he led R&D activities for the development of fiber sensors for use in industrial plant, oil & gas, and high voltage and current electric power applications. He was also the former Director of Engineering Sensing Solutions at Micron Optics. He has written over 70 technical publications, taught several short courses, holds 5 US patents and is recipient of an R&D100 award. Dr. Méndez is a Fellow of SPIE, a steering committee member of ISHMII and was past Chairman of the 2006 International Optical Fiber Sensors Conference (OFS-18), past Technical Chair of the 2nd Workshop on Specialty Optical Fibers and their Applications (WSOF-2). He is a member of the OFS International Honorary Committee, VP of the IEEE Fiber Sensors Standards Committee, co-editor of the “Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook”, co-author of SPIE’s “Fiber Optical Sensors Book”, and series editor of the CRC book series on fiber optic sensors.