 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. In August 2009, I got my PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon with my dissertation titled "Extraction of Surveying Goals from Point Clouds Obtained from Laser Scanners to Support Bridge Inspection". After that, I joined the Mapping and GIS Lab at Ohio State University as a Post Doc Researcher. I am managing multiple research projects at OSU, most of these projects are related to computer vision based robot localization and spatial data management for interplanetary exploration. 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
have a dream to become a professor in a top research university, and I
am always happy to share my expertise with people from both academia
and industry. It is simply an internal desire of me to enable more
intelligent infrastructure systems and construction sites, and make
engineer's life easier. Hence, I keep looking for faculty position openings these days. For potential academic colleagues in the future, I have prepared several pages
explaining my long-term academic goals and why I believe that I will
become a successful teacher, a world-class researcher, and an excellent
collaborator of people working on real world construction and
infrastructure management projects. I am pursuing my academic dream,
and desire to share that dream with you. |
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