His main research areas are in structural health monitoring strategies, in fiber optic measurement systems, and in RFID sensor networking for civil infrastructure assessment with UAVs. With partners at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Todd helped create the country's first graduate degree program in structural health monitoring, damage prognosis, and validated simulations at UCSD. Among his many honors, Todd received the 1999 Alan Berman NRL Publication Award, the 2003 and 2004 NRL Patent Award, and the 2005 Structural Health Monitoring Person of the Year award given at the Fifth International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. He is a a 2004-2005 UCSD Hellman Fellow and a 2005 Von Liebig Entrepreneurship award winner.