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Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation

Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation

Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation

 

Climate change is already reshaping ecosystems, economies, and communities. Meeting this global challenge demands urgent action on two fronts: mitigation to cut emissions, and adaptation to strengthen resilience.

The global community is uniquely positioned to contribute through innovation in:

  • Infrastructures & Communities
     
  • Electric Energy Systems
     
  • Power Generation
     
  • Transportation, Buildings & Facilities
     
  • Industry & Manufacturing
     
  • Hydrogen, Ammonia & Renewable Fuels
     
  • Food & Agriculture
     
  • Water Systems
     
  • AI & Computational Systems
     
  • Negative Emissions Technologies
     
  • Geoengineering
     
  • Environmental Monitoring
     

These interconnected domains require advanced modeling, automation, optimization, and decision-making tools. Yet, technology alone isn’t enough.

To drive lasting impact, climate solutions must prioritize equity, justice, and sustainability—across regions, economies, and generations. They must also be scalable, rapidly deployable, and supported by strong education and public awareness.

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Healthcare & Quality of Life

Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation

Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation

 

Quality of life is a universal concern—shaped by health, aging, access to care, and wellbeing. Globally, healthcare systems face mounting challenges: aging populations, rising costs, distrust in science, and growing mental health concerns. These pressures were magnified and reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic, which accelerated the need for smarter, more resilient solutions.

Despite these hurdles, emerging technologies offer powerful ways to improve health outcomes and enhance life at every stage. The global community is uniquely positioned to contribute through innovation in:

  • Systems-Level Medical Technologies
     
  • Neuroengineering & Nervous System Modulation
     
  • Closed-Loop Medical Devices for Disease Management
     
  • Pandemic & Epidemic Response Systems
     
  • Regulatory-Aware Medical Device Development
     
  • Data-Driven Health Monitoring & Decision Support
     

These opportunities call for advances in modeling, sensing, control, and optimization—embedded in patient-centered, real-world solutions. At the same time, they demand sensitivity to regulatory pathways, ethical considerations, and global equity in healthcare access.

We encourage young researchers, educators, and funders to help shape this evolving frontier. Improving healthcare and quality of life is a challenge of deep societal importance—and a signature opportunity for systems innovation.

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Smart Infrastructure Systems

Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation

Smart Infrastructure Systems

 

Infrastructure underpins every aspect of modern life—from transportation and energy to water, food, and public safety. Today, rapid advances in sensing, communication, and data interpretation are transforming these systems into smart, adaptive networks.

Connected and actuated infrastructure opens new possibilities for resilience, sustainability, and performance. As digital transformation continues, future infrastructure systems will become more interactive, dynamic, and integrated, capable of responding intelligently to environmental conditions and societal needs.

The global community is uniquely positioned to contribute through innovation in:

  • Smart Transportation & Mobility Networks
     
  • Intelligent Energy & Power Systems
     
  • Adaptive Water Infrastructure
     
  • Digitally Integrated Food & Agriculture Systems
     

These complex systems demand collaboration across disciplines—from engineering and computing to public policy and urban planning. Human-centered design must also be at the core to ensure usability, equity, and long-term societal benefit.

Progress depends on expanding R&D funding for realistic testbeds, generating critical data, and validating emerging technologies. Deeper collaboration with industry and government is also essential to scale innovations and protect daily operations while testing new solutions.

Smart infrastructure is central to building resilient, sustainable communities—and a vital frontier for systems and control innovation.

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Sharing Economy

Societal Resilience

Smart Infrastructure Systems

 

The Sharing Economy is reshaping traditional ownership models by enabling access to resources only when needed—unlocking flexibility, efficiency, and new economic value. However, this shift raises complex challenges around privacy, fairness, trust, and strategic behavior.

Viewed through a systems lens, the Sharing Economy is a feedback-driven network—where users, services, and platforms interact dynamically. Control-theoretic approaches are uniquely suited to optimize this space, offering tools to manage constrained resources, model user behavior, and ensure stability at both societal and individual levels.

Key discovery opportunities include:

  • Peer-to-Peer Market Design & Transactive Control
     
  • Shared Resource Management with Privacy & Security Guarantees
     
  • Behavior Modeling & Cooperative Control for Social Compliance
     

Here, markets can be viewed as decentralized control systems, with negotiation and transaction mechanisms guiding dynamic decisions. Incorporating game theory, control co-design, and closed-loop feedback allows for smarter, fairer systems—especially in adversarial or strategic environments.

As the Sharing Economy expands into mobility, housing, energy, and labor, new algorithms, infrastructure, and social contracts will be essential. This domain offers a rich frontier for interdisciplinary control innovation—shaping how we share, trade, and trust in a connected world.

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Societal Resilience

Societal Resilience

Societal Resilience

 

Modern societies depend on vast, interconnected systems—energy, transport, manufacturing, supply chains—that are increasingly exposed to environmental, technological, and societal disruptions. Climate change, cyber threats, pandemics, and geopolitical shocks are no longer hypothetical risks—they are defining challenges of the 21st century.

Building resilient systems that can absorb shocks, adapt, and recover is essential for global stability. The control systems community can lead this effort, offering tools to predict, detect, and mitigate disruptions across complex networks.

Key discovery opportunities include:

  • Resilient Supply Chains & Critical Infrastructure Monitoring
     
  • Adaptive Systems for Climate Risk Management
     
  • Secure, Data-Driven Control Across Networked Systems
     

By combining climate forecasting with control-theoretic models, we can inform smarter responses to extreme weather and resource stress. Advances in AI, IoT, and cloud computing can also be harnessed to enhance real-time agility and long-term resilience.

Strategic decision-making, regulatory frameworks, and interdependencies must be factored into control designs. Risk-aware tools that integrate both technological safeguards and institutional strategies are essential to navigate uncertainty.

Resilience at scale requires collaboration—across sectors, disciplines, and borders.

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Bold Discoveries

Science of bold discoveries

Why Systems & Development Engineering?

Discover the science of bold discoveries at the B4Life.Institute.

More on the science of discovery

Leveraging on the Artisanal and Small-scale Mining Sector

Over 40 million are benefitting directly while over 150 million benefits indirectly in the Artisanal and small-scale mining sector in Africa.  Mining and agriculture were chosen as critical leverage points for innovation due to recurring disasters in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)—such as the 2024 zamaza tragedy that claimed over 90 lives—and the rapid, unplanned shift from farming to gold mining in rural Kenya, which undermines food security and overwhelms local infrastructure. These urgent challenges are matched by transformative opportunities, notably the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), which aims to unify 55 countries into a single market. However, infrastructure gaps, trade inefficiencies, and limited technology transfer continue to constrain progress. Smart mining and smart agriculture offer a systems-based path forward to address these interconnected issues. 

Addressing Food Security

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