48th PICE National Convention and Technical Conference

“Civil Engineering and its Specializations: Responding to Our New Normal and Foreseeing Our Futures”

Bacolod City

What is and what is not

11-12 October 2022

Data Science or Arti cial Intelligence:

potential implications for Civil Engineering

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‣ One of two parts: Data Science

‣ Data Science as science of data

‣ Data Science in UPD

(Presented online via Zoom)

Johnrob Y. Bantang, PhD

jybantang@up.edu.ph
Instrumentation
Associate Professor in Physics Program Director
Physics Lab
Instrumentation Physics Laboratory Computational Science Research Center
National Institute of Physics College of Science
College of Science University of the Philippines, Diliman
University of the Philippines, Diliman
Quezon City 1101

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 Truth, prerequisite to a good science.

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reliable technologies

e ective innovations Lies

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Falsehood requires
truth constant energy to sustain.

A technology built on what is true is reliable.

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 Truth as object of any scientific endeavor

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REAL-WORLD / Nature MODEL / Intellect

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DATA

✓Captures essential mechanisms

✓Sufficient simplification
[images: Young & Freedman. University Physics 13th Ed.]

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Solution or Simulation Mathematical FORMulation

“mathematical model”
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 Truth: mind vs reality

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in the mind
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reality TRUE

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Truth is an adequation of the intellect and the thing.

# 4 “A judgment is said to be true when it conforms to the external reality” [Thomas Aquinas]
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 Black/Blue | Gold/White
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Truth is an adequation of the intellect and the thing.

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cosmology

astronomy
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chemistry
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biology

a collection of known truths

sociology

economics

neurobiology
about a class of objects
ecology
physics
(a body of knowledge) mathematics

theology

philosophy

Truth
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Natural Sciences

bodies of knowledge of true natural causes and true natural e ects

Science of natural cause-e ect relation in the physical reality.

Scienti c research

process by which we expand our science

(adding more, or making the current more accurate and precise)

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Higher
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Order
Thinking
Skills

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in any scienti c research.
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 Traditional approach
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Problem Math/form

Physics
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Practical Sol’n/form
solution
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 Mathematics of CT scanning
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Fourier transform

Filtering

Backprojection

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# 11 https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Basic_Physics_of_Nuclear_Medicine/X-Ray_CT_in_Nuclear_Medicine
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 Physics-based device models for semiconductors

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… physics-based device models to describe and

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quantify the piezoelectric response for one-dimensional

nanowires, emerging two-dimensional materials, and
three-dimensional
thin lms.

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 Computation-heavy applications of physics

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… by simulating the force exerted on

every block and distributing material
in response to where the wing
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human guidance, the program then
repeated the analysis several
hundred times, …
# 13 Gibney, E. Supercomputer redesign of aeroplane wing mirrors bird anatomy. Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.22759
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 Data Science as scientific field

Every scienti c eld de ned by

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๏ object of study (nature of): S

๏ operations on S

๏ properties of S

Data science as eld

๏ object of study: data

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๏ operations

‣ extraction or collection, representation and storage; access and

analytics

๏ properties of data

‣ information content and behavior under di erent conditions / operations

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 Engineering and Scientific treatment of data
Scientists are aimed at discovery

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‣ improvement of existing knowledge (nature of data)

‣ discovery of new methods or techniques

‣ extracting new information from data sets

Engineers are geared to building

‣ systems development and/or integration

‣ data engineering

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» optimization of processes

» data structural design for storage, maintenance, retrieval

» vs. management (operational security, etc)

‣ automation of data streams (end-to-end)

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 Data science is a eld that deals

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with e ective tools involving data

sets that help human think

and act better.

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May replace repeated decisions
and actions, but does not replace
human rationality.

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 Perspectives about data science
1. as a part of a production cycle

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2. as an applied scienti c eld

Arti cial Intelligence (AI)

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decisions

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 PhD Data science in UPD as research program

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UP School

UP College
of Statistics
of Engineering
Institute of Math, CS

College of Science (CS)

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✓ Expand data science as a eld.

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✓ Train mentors and experts.
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 Data science instances in PH
[alphabetical, not an exhaustive list]
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• Asian Institute of Management (AIM)

• Ateneo de Manila University

• De La Salle University

• University of Asia and the Paci c

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• University of Santo Tomas

• University of the Philippines UP PhD DS

UP PMDS(A)

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reliable technologies

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Falsehood requires
truth constant energy to sustain.

A technology built on what is true is reliable.

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 • The future is lled with data.

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• Data science as a study of

their nature will remain a
crucial eld, providing better
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toolset for engineering.

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ecosystem may nd the technical
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aspect of data science important.

• In the domain application, the scienti c

mindset will still be critical, hence
scienti c training via scientist mentors is
still pivotal for the data science career.
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is geared to sustaining the eld

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of Data Science and in producing

mentors for other learning
institutions.
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 • Civil engineering toolset can be
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enhanced via the algorithms

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developed by data scientists and

maximally exploited as Arti cial
Intelligence systems.
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48th PICE National Convention and Technical Conference
“Civil Engineering and its Specializations: Responding to Our New Normal and Foreseeing Our Futures”

Bacolod City
11-12 October 2022
What is and what is not

Data Science or Arti cial Intelligence:

potential implications for Civil Engineering

🔭
THANK YOU.
Johnrob Y. Bantang, PhD
jybantang@up.edu.ph
Instrumentation
Associate Professor in Physics Program Director
Physics Lab
Instrumentation Physics Laboratory Computational Science Research Center
National Institute of Physics College of Science
College of Science University of the Philippines, Diliman
University of the Philippines, Diliman
Quezon City 1101

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