Dr. Ioannis Brilakis is a Laing O’Rourke Lecturer of Construction Engineering at the Division of Civil Engineering of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005-2008) and Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (2008-2012). He is the director of the Construction Information Technology (CIT) laboratory, and a recipient of the ASCE Collingwood Prize, the NSF CAREER award, the 2012 Georgia Tech Outreach Award and the 2009 ASCE Associate Editor Award. Dr. Brilakis is an author of 40 peer-reviewed journal papers and 80 conference papers, an Associate Editor of the ASCE Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering, Elsevier Automation in Construction, and Elsevier Advanced Engineering Informatics Journals, a past-chair and founder of the ASCE TCCIT Data Sensing and Analysis Committee, and the chair of the TRB AFH10 (1) Information Systems in Construction Management Subcommittee. He is also the founder of PointForest Inc.
Dr. Moselhi is Professor of Engineering in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Concordia University. He has over 40 years of professional and academic experience. He is Fellow of ASCE, CSCE and AACE International. Since joining Concordia in 1985, after a decade of industry experience, Dr. Moselhi supervised and co-supervised over 80 Masters and Ph.D. graduates, authored and co-authored over 350 scientific publications. His industry experience spans tall buildings, bridges, nuclear power plants, harbor and offshore facilities. He is recipient of numerous honours and awards, including the prestigious Walter Shanly Award in recognition of “outstanding contributions to the development and practice of construction engineering in Canada”. Dr. Moselhi served as international consultant on academic affairs and on construction projects in Canada, USA and the Middle East. His research interest encompasses optimized project delivery systems, planning, procurement, resource allocation, tracking and control of construction projects, with a focus on risk management, productivity analysis, management of construction claims and development of decision support systems embracing information technology, remote sensing, web-enabling and spatial technologies.
The research activities of Prof. Bock (b. 1957) center on automation and robotics in construction. All stages are examined, from planning through building activity and useful life to renovation and demolition.
After studying architecture at the University of Stuttgart and the IIT in Chicago, Prof. Bock did his doctorate at the University of Tokyo. He is the director at the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction in Eindhoven, the Asian Habitat Society in Beijing and the International Institute of Construction Information in Tokyo. Prof. Bock is an advisor to the French Ministère de l’Emploi, de la Cohésion Sociale et du Logement . He is a member of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus . Prof. Bock is also involved in editing “Robotica”, “Automation in Construction”, the “International Journal of Construction Innovation” and the journal “ACADEMIE”.
Dr. Syed M. Ahmed is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Construction Management at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina USA. Dr. Ahmed received his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Ahmed has over 25 years of international experience in teaching, research and consulting in Pakistan, Hong Kong, USA, Mexico, and Jamaica. His areas of interest/expertise are construction scheduling, quality and risk management, project controls, construction safety, construction procurement, and construction education and information technology. He is the author of four books and has also published extensively in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr. Ahmed is currently on the editorial board of more than 6 international journals and serves as the Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering & Management and the Associate Editor of the Built Environment Project & Asset Management (BEPAM) Journal.
Miklos Hajdu PhD received his PhD degree in construction management in 1995 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has been the head of the Department of Construction Management at Szent István University’s Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering since 2003. He was founding president of the Hungarian Project Management Association, and is the vice-president of the Hungarian Scientific Society for Building. Professor Hajdu serves as the editor-in-chief and member of the editorial board of numerous Hungarian and international journals. He has several dozens of publications including books and papers in internationally indexed journals. His research areas include but are not limited to scheduling and cost optimization in the field of project management.
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