Jonathon Fagert

Dr. Jonathon Fagert’s primary teaching interests are in statics, mechanics, structural analysis and design, and sensing. His research is highly interdisciplinary and focuses on combining physical and data-based models for indoor occupant monitoring using structural vibration sensing. This research field fuses concepts from civil/structural engineering, electrical/computer engineering, computer science and the medical domain. His focus has been on how to leverage structural vibration sensing to monitor human gait health. Through this research he has collaborated with Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and elder care facilities in the Pittsburgh area, including Baptist Homes and Vincentian Homes.

Prior to his Ph.D. studies and joining BW, he spent over five years as a practicing structural engineer, with a specialization in building design. His design experience includes new building design and renovation/rehabilitation of existing structures, primarily in the greater New York City area. From his years as a practicing structural engineer, he holds a professional engineering license in New York State.

Dr. Fagert looks forward to sharing his passion for the field of engineering with the BW community.

Select Publications

Jonathon Fagert, Mostafa Mirshekari, Shijia Pan, Linda Lowes, Megan Iammarino, Pei
Zhang, and Hae Young Noh. Structure- and sampling-adaptive gait balance symmetry estimation using footstep-induced structural floor vibrations. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 147(2):04020151, 2021.

Mostafa Mirshekari, Jonathon Fagert, Shijia Pan, Pei Zhang, and Hae Young Noh. Obstruction-invariant occupant localization using footstep-induced structural vibrations. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 153:107499, 2021.

Sai Swaminathan, Jonathon Fagert, Michael Rivera, Andrew Cao, Gierad Laput, Hae Young
Noh, and Scott Hudson. Optistructures: Fabrication of room-scale interactive structures with embedded fiber bragg grating optical sensors and displays. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 4(2), 2020.

Asim Smailagic, Pedro Costa, Alex Gaudio, Kartik Khandelwal, Mostafa Mirshekari, Jonathon Fagert, Devesh Walawalkar, Susu Xu, Adrian Galdran, Pei Zhang, Aurélio Campilho, and Hae Young Noh. O-medal: Online active deep learning for medical image analysis. WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, page e1350, 2020.

Mostafa Mirshekari, Jonathon Fagert, Shijia Pan, Pei Zhang, and Hae Young Noh. Step-level
occupant detection across different structures through footstep-induced floor vibration using model transfer. Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 146(3):04019137, 2020
Received “Best Journal Paper Award” from SHM/NDE Technical Committee, ASME, 2020.

Pei Zhang, Shijia Pan, Mostafa Mirshekari, Jonathon Fagert, and Hae Young Noh. Structures
as sensors: Indirect sensing for inferring users and environments. Computer, 52(10):84–88, 2019.

Shijia Pan, Mostafa Mirshekari, Jonathon Fagert, Carlos Ruiz, Hae Young Noh, and Pei
Zhang. Area occupancy counting through sparse structural vibration sensing. IEEE Pervasive
Computing, 18(1):28–37, 2019.

Mostafa Mirshekari, Shijia Pan, Jonathon Fagert, Eve M Schooler, Pei Zhang, and Hae Young
Noh. Occupant localization using footstep-induced structural vibration. Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 112:77–97, 2018.

Shijia Pan, Mostafa Mirshekari, Jonathon Fagert, Ceferino Gabriel Ramirez, Albert Jin
Chung, Chih Chi Hu, John Paul Shen, Pei Zhang, and Hae Young Noh. Characterizing human
activity induced impulse and slip-pulse excitations through structural vibration. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 414:61–80, 2018.

Shijia Pan, Tong Yu, Mostafa Mirshekari, Jonathon Fagert, Amelie Bonde, Ole J Mengshoel, Hae Young Noh, and Pei Zhang. Footprintid: Indoor pedestrian identification through ambient structural vibration sensing. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 1(3):1–31, 2017.