Burcu Akinci is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. Her research and teaching activities are in the fields of computer aided engineering and construction engineering and management. Her education includes BS in Civil Engineering from METU and MBA from Bilkent University, MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from Stanford University with an emphasis on Construction Engineering and Management.

James Garrett is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director of the Advanced Infrastructure Systems Lab in the Institute of Complex Engineered Systems (ICES), and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering. He has a background in computer-aided engineering. More recently, he has been investigating the development and applications of various ubiquitous computing technologies in civil and environmental engineering. For example, he has been exploring the development and use of MEMS-based sensors for infrastructure assessment. He has also been exploring the use of mobile and wearable computing in inspection and construction applications.

Itir Karaesmen is currently a Visiting Professor in Production and Operations Management at the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon. (She will be full-time tenure track Assistant Professor in the same area starting Fall 2001). She has a background in industrial engineering, management science and operations research. She focuses on dynamic decision problems under uncertainty. Her current work is on revenue and capacity management with applications in airlines, air cargo systems and telecommunications networks. Her work on airline revenue management was awarded the second prize at The Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society's Student Paper Competition. She is a referee for Operations Research, Management Science, IIE Transactions and POMS journals.

H. Scott Matthews is the Research Director of the Green Design Initiative and a Research Faculty member in the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. His research, teaching, and consulting activities are in the interdisciplinary fields of systems engineering, benefit-cost analysis, environmental management, anthe socio-economic implications of information technology, such as e-commerce, infrastructure, and information warfare. His education includes a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy, and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Economics, all from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mark E. Patton is a Research Engineer in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has a background in Civil Engineering Materials and recently has been investigating the use of embedded sensors to provide material quality information about civil infrastructures.

Eswaran Subrahmanian is a Principal Research Scientist of Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon. His background includes B.E. in Chemical Engineering, MS in Computer Science and PhD in Public Policy and Information Systems. Within the transportation area, he has done research on intelligent agents in decentralized traffic control, inter-vehicle communications and time varying flows on congested networks. He is a program committee member and reviewer of the IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies In Collaborative Engineering (WET-ICE) and was the editor and reviewer of the Research in Engineering Design journal.

Jonathan Chin is a Masters student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. He received a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon in 2001.

Shamil Patel is a senior Economics major at Carnegie Mellon.