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Sybil Derrible

Professor of Urban Engineering

Biography

Sybil Derrible (Photo: Jim Young/UIC College of Engineering)

Sybil Derrible is a professor of urban engineering in the UIC College of Engineering. His research focuses on the design of smart, sustainable and resilient urban infrastructure, including transportation, water, sewer, electricity, gas, solid waste management and telecommunication.

Derrible looks at both the demand for and the supply of services provided by urban infrastructure to develop solutions for governments, nonprofits and industries worldwide on smart cities, urban sustainability, infrastructure resilience, technology and urban futures.

Derrible is the author of “The Infrastructure Book: How Cities Work and Power Our Lives” (Prometheus 2025) and “Urban Engineering for Sustainability” (MIT Press 2019). He was elected fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and was a lead author on the United Nations Environmental Program Seventh Global Environment Outlook.