Dr. Ekin Ozer is an Assistant Professor at the School of Civil Engineering, University College Dublin. Before joining UCD, he was a Research Associate at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Bogazici University and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His M.Sc. covered vibration-based damage detection and reliability estimation, and his Ph.D. studied smartphone sensor solutions as crowdsourcing-engaged structural health monitoring (SHM) devices. He also worked on earthquake early warning systems with a structural engineering focus as part of a Horizon 2020 project, "TURNKey". His research is centralized on low-cost sensors and SHM systems, deploying mobile and smart devices to assess the conditions of buildings, bridges, and industrial infrastructure. Other research topics within his area of interest are low-cost programmable board solutions for SHM, the Internet of Things, machine learning, Bayesian networks, big data analytics, risk assessment, automation in infrastructure systems, and infrastructure-related decision-making.