Dr. Paal’s research interests include infrastructure condition assessment, computing technologies and visualization in civil engineering, sensing and data collection for civil infrastructure, system of systems resiliency and knowledge extraction and management. More specifically, Dr. Paal is conducting research that focuses on creating machine vision methods to automatically assess infrastructure in both post-disaster and routine scenarios. Dr. Paal’s research discoveries have been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and presented at various conferences world-wide. Her ultimate goal is to merge new technology with traditional civil engineering practices, creating real-time, quantitative, cost-effective alternatives for the future.