Advanced Infrastructure System Group
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
PA 15213, USA
Tel: 1+412-268-6271
Email: tangpingbo@gmail.com
Geometric Data Collection and Automated Data Interpretation for Construction Management, Facility Management and Infrastructure Management
"Gawky and proud of it." -Guido van Rossum
"It must be possible to replace in all geometric statements the words point, line, plane by table, chair, beer mug." - David Hilbert, on the axiomatic method in mathematics
Hello! My name is Pingbo Tang. Tang is one of the greatest dynasty in Chinese history, Ping means calm, gentle, flat, and mild in Chinese, and Bo means wavy and dynamic in Chinese. Of course, I am made in China. In 2005, after I finished my master thesis about Bridge CAD at Tongji University, China, P.R., I became a PhD student of Professor Burcu Akinci's MOSAIC group (Management of mOdel-based Sensor-driven Advanced Infrastructure and Construction Systems) at Carnegie Mellon University. Here are my resume and CV.
Basically I am interested in Construction Management, Facility Management, Bridge CAD/CAE (Computer-Aided-Design/Computer-Aided-Engineering) and Bridge Management. What I am trying to do is to apply various information and communication technologies (ICT), such as remote sensing, computer vision, knowledge-based systems, product and process modeling to improve people's situation awareness of the condition of buildings and infrastructure systems, hence they can make objective and rational decisions about the management of construction, facility and infrastructure. Currently I am focusing on automated geometric information retrieval from laser scanned 3D data for automated visual inspection of bridges. That is my PhD work. For more details about the status of that work, please check out this poster. For a more casual description about my PhD work, please visit here.
I will graduate in August, 2009, and want to pursue my career in both academia and industry. I am passionate about sharing my expertise with people in industry, and applying my profound civil engineering and computer vision expertise in real-world projects. At the same time, I am also looking for faculty position openings these days, I have prepared several pages explaining my long-term academic goals and why I believe that I will become a successful teacher and world-class researcher. I view myself as an excellent engineer, patient teacher, and top researcher in my area, and really want to work together with excellent peers from the industry to make my research results benefit people all over the world.
This is my second home page, hope it is getting better day by day.