Scientific Committee

Young-Jin Cha

Professor Young-Jin Cha received his Ph.D. (2008) from Texas A&M University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He became post-doctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (2012). He then joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Manitoba in 2014. His initiative research activities in deep learning-based automated SHM with autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have led to the publication of over 80 peer-reviewed, high-impact papers. According to Google Scholar, He has received 4,103 citations, 975 of which were received during the last year 2020. He was reported as top 0.65% cited scientist for single-year impact in the world within Civil Engineering field in 2020 from Mendeley.com. He has been reported more than serval hundred times as the most read author, most read research items, and citations in the Civil Engineering Dept. at U of M, with more than 86,000 readings since my account on www.researchgate.net was opened. He was named to 2005 Who’s Who in America,’ organized many symposiums in the MIT and Caltech through Engineering Mechanics Institute Conferences with the topics of Deep Learning and Autonomous UAVs for SHM. He is serving as an Associate Editor in Engineering Report, Wiley, and core peer-reviewers and Editorial Board Members in many top engineering journals associated with ASCE, Elsevier, IEEE, and Wiley.