Mosaic People

Faculty:Prof. Burcu Akinci

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Current PhD Students		Expected Graduation	Research Interests
	Asli Akcamete	08/2011	A Formal Approach for Managing Facility Change Information and Capturing Change History as Part of Building Information Models (BIMs)
	Guzide Atasoy	11/2011	A Framework and Formalism for Visualization of and Interaction with Construction Project Performance Information
	Saurabh Taneja	11/2011	A Framework for Fusing Sensing Data with Building Information:  An Application for Realizing Indoor Location-based Services
	Xeusong Liu	TBD	Applying A Self-Managing Approach to Improve the Energy Efficiency in Operating and Maintaining HVAC Systems
	Te Gao	12/2013	Development of a framework to utilize different data capture technologies to support proactive management of construction productivity
	Engin Burak Anil	12/2013	Representation Requirements for As-Is Building Information Models Obtained from Laser Scanned Point Cloud Data
	Eui Jae Jin	TBD	Automatic Building Code Compliance Checking Process
	Matineh Eyb Poosh	TBD	TBD

Graduate Students		Graduation	Research Interests	Current Position
	Asli Akcamete	2011 (PhD)	A Formal Approach for Managing Facility Change Information and Capturing Change History as Part of Building Information Models (BIMs)
	Anu Pradhan	2009 (PhD)	An approach for fusing data from multiple sources to support construction productivity analysis	Dr. Pradhan is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at Drexel University
	Pingbo Tang	2009 (PhD)	Surveying goal extraction from 3D point clouds to supoort construction and infrastructure inspection	Dr Tang is a Post doctoral researcher at Mapping and GIS Lab in the Ohio State University
	Fernanda Leite	2009 (PhD)	Fusing digital information for supporting vulnerability assessment and rectification in buildings emergencies	Dr Leite is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engieering at the University of Texas at Austin
	Semiha Kiziltas	2008 (PhD)	An automated approach for developing integrated model-based construction project histories to support estimation of activity production rates	Dr. Kiziltas is a tenure track Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering of Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
	Frank Boukamp	2006 (PhD)	Modeling of and Reasoning about Construction Specifications for Automated Defect Detection	Dr. Boukamp is currently a senior lecturer for Construction Management at the Royal Melbourne Institude of Technology.
	Kevin Tantisevi	2006 (PhD)	Formalization and Automation of Generation of Equipment Spaces on Construction Sites	Dr. Tantisevi is currently a software engineer at Bentley Systems, Inc.
	Hongjun Wang	2006 (PhD)	Domain-Oriented Semi-Automated Model Matching for Supporting Building Commissioning-Related Data Exchange	Dr. Wang is currently a software engineer at ANSYS
	Chris Gordon	2006 (PhD)	A Formalism and a Framework for Planning of Sensor-based Inspection on Construction Sites	Dr. Gordon is currently Assistant Professor and Chair of Department of Construction at Southern University of Illinois at Edwardsville
	Esin Ergen	2005 (PhD)	Formalization of Life-cycle Data Management of Pre-engineered Components using Advanced Tracking Technologies	Dr. Ergen is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
	Jan Reinhardt	2003 (PhD)	Navigational Models For Effective And Efficient Interaction With Integrated Product And Process Models On Construction Sites	Dr. Reinhardt is currently a Principal and Founder at ADEPT Project Delivery.

Graduated MS (with thesis/ rearch projects) Students:

Salih Demir: A Semantic Web-based Approach for Representing and Reasoning with Vocabulary for Computer-based Standards Processing (12/2009).

Saurabh Taneja:Formalization of data fusion to support facility managers and first responders (09/2009).

Xingchen Wang:Prototypical Interface for Integrated Visualization of Advanced Pipe Inspection Data (05/2009).

Ziqi Chen:A multi-sensor data fusion model for decision support in building facility management (08/2007).

Berkay Baykal: Overview of Different Building Information Modeling Approaches and Software Systems (05/2007).

Sharad Oberoi: Functional Requirements for CAD and GIS integration (May 2006).

Jerry Himes: Situation Awareness for Lean Construction (May 2006).

Xing Wu: Model-based Sensor-Enabled Water Management (May 2006).

Subhash Tuladhar: Distributed Constraint-based Scheduling on Construction Sites (August 2004).

DeWitt Latimer: Estimating the Cost of Software Components in Civil System development Using Function Point Analysis. (May 2002).

Kevin Tantisevi: An Approach for Automating the Generation of a Simulation Model of Construction Processes from a Schedule (May 2002).