Dr. Thomas Matarazzo, Ph.D.

Dr. Thomas Matarazzo earned a Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in civil engineering from Manhattan College, and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in structural engineering from Lehigh University.

His research focuses on monitoring and intelligence systems for civil and urban infrastructure, mobile sensor networks, autonomous sensing platforms, and multipurpose sensor data for urban services.

In 2015 and 2016, he was an NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes research fellow and a postdoctoral researcher at the Nakashima-Kurata Laboratory in the Disaster Prevention Research Institute at Kyoto University, Japan. In 2016, he joined the MIT Senseable City Lab as a postdoctoral researcher, leading a multidisciplinary team in collaboration with industry and government partners to study how crowdsourced smartphone data from vehicle trips can support bridge maintenance. He also conducted postdoctoral research with the Department of Information Science at Cornell Tech.

In spring 2020, he served as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University, teaching Data Science Methods for Urban Systems in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. His awards include the Microsoft AI for Earth Award in 2018.