NAS Board Member, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (02/2020-)

NAS Committee Member on the Review of Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management (02/2020 -2022).

ASCE Blue Sky Advisory Committee (05/2021 - )

Organized 2020-2021 CEE Rising Stars workshop.

Board Member, Engineering Research Council, ASEE, June 2019 -

Associate Editor (member of editorial board), Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.

Review Board, Purdue Construction Engineering and Management program, March 2019.

Review Board, City University of Hong Kong: 5 Year Review of Academic Excellence (RoE5) for Division of Building Science and Technology, January 2018.

Specialty Editor on Construction Informatics/Editorial Board, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE

Associate Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics.

Associate Editor, Automation in Construction.

Specialty Editor, Sensors in Construction and Infrastructure Management, ITCon

Editorial board, ITCon

NRC Committee Member on Predicting the Outcomes of Facility Investments (09/2009 -2012 )

Reviewer for the following journals:

1. 1. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management

   2. Automation in Construction

   3. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering

   4. Advanced Engineering Informatics

   5. Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

   6. Construction Management and Economics

   7. Journal of Infrastructure Systems

   8. Canadian Journal for Civil Engineering

   9. IT in A/E/C

Reviewer for the following funding agencies: National Science Foundation, EPSRC, EPSCOR, Swiss National Foundation

Regular reviewer and session chair for the following conferences: Construction Congress, Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, ICCCBE and ISARC.

Advisory Board, Division of Building Science and Technology, City University of Hong Kong (January 2017).

Invited participant of the following workshops (examples):

1. 1. NSF workshop on SUS Workshop on Sustainable Integration of Urban Automation, July 29-20, 2019, Pittsburgh, PA.

   2. NSF Workshop on Setting a Broader Impact Innovation Roadmap; May 26-27, 2016, Arlington, Virginia

   3. Construction Research Council's workshop on "Attracting minorities for graduate studies within the construction domain."

   4. NSF Supported workshop on "NSF Workshop - Collaborative Practice: When Engineering Design Meets Architecture." November 4-5, 2010, Philadelphia, PA.

   5. NSF supported workshop on "Academic Response to the FIATECH roadmap." 10/2004.

   6. Intel Corp. supported, Intel University Day, 2003, Phoenix, AZ, October, 2003

   7. NSF Engineering Education Scholars Workshop 2000, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, July 16-21, 2000.

   8. NSF Defining a Research Agend for AEC Process/Product Development in 2000 and Beyond, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, August 25-28, 2000.

“Review of the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management: First Report.” Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, January 11, 2021. https://www.nap.edu/26000

“Predicting the Outcomes of Facility Investments.” Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2012. https://www.nap.edu/catalog/13280/predicting-outcomes-of-investments-in-maintenance-and-repair-of-federal-facilities

“Digital Twins and AI towards the Autonomy of Built Environment” IPCMC 2022, Keynote speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 10/12/2022

“Digital Twins and AI towards the Autonomy of Built Environment” DEIK Invited Speaker, Istanbul, Turkey, 10/13/2022

“Reimagining Civil and Environmental Engineering” Geosyntech Conference, Keynote speaker, Pittsburgh, PA 09/22/2022.

“3D Imaging and Digital Twins for Construction and Infrastructure Management – Reflections on two decades of research.”, Army ERD workshop, August 8, 2022 (joined over zoom)

“Lessons learned from decades of research in utilizing computer vision to support construction and infrastructure management.” Keynote Talk at CVPR 2022 Workshop (2 nd Workshop and Challenge on Computer Vision in the Built Environment for the Design, Construction and Operation of Buildings) June 19 th , 2022 (joined over zoom)

“3D Imaging and Digital Twins for Construction and Infrastructure Management – Reflections on two decades of research.”, ETH Zurich, April 21, 2022 (joined over zoom)

“Digital Twins and Context-aware AI for Construction and Infrastructure Management” Skanska Boston, April 4 2022.

“Context Aware AI for Infrastructure and Facility Management.” College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University, Nov. 7, 2021 (held over zoom).

“Digital Twins & Context Driven Analytics for FM on Earth & Beyond” University of Edinburgh, UK., October 2021 (held over zoom).

“Towards Predictive Situation Awareness and Assessment of Infrastructure Systems.”, ASCE Tech Talk, October 2021 (held over zoom).

“Computing in Civil Engineering on Earth and Beyond – Personal Reflections.” Computing in Civil Engineering Workshop Plenary Session, Orlando, FL, September, 2021.

“Context Aware AI for Infrastructure and Facility Management,” National Academy of Engineering Section 4 Civil Engineering Webinar on Applications of AI in Civil Engineering and Beyond, June 2021 (held over zoom).

“AI in Construction at Carnegie Mellon.” AI Institute Planning workshop, April 2021.

“Context Aware AI for Infrastructure and Facility Management.” GNI International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for the Built world, April 2021 (held over zoom).

“Research in Smart Infrastructure”, UT Austin Civil and Architecture department, Smart Cities class, March 3, 2021 (held over zoom).

“Context Driven Analytics and AI for Infrastructure and Facility Management” Keynote Presentation at IPC 2020 (International Conference on Innovative Production and Construction), Dec 6, 2020 (held over zoom).

“Context Driven Analytics and AI for Infrastructure and Facility Management” Departmental Presentation at Civil and Environmental Engineering department at Northeastern University, November 5, 2020 (held over zoom).

“Context Driven Analytics and AI for Infrastructure and Facility Management” Keynote Presentation at BuildSys, New York, November 13, 2019.

“Accelerating Engineering Research” Invited Speaker at the College of Engineering retreat at University of Illinois at Chicago, October 15, 2019.

“Integration of Building Information Models with Data Capture Technologies” Invited presentation at department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 15, 2019.

“Integration of Building Information Models with Data Capture Technologies” Keynote presentation at SBTIC 2019 Science, Technology & Engineering in Campinas, August 2019, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

“Digitizing Buildings and Infrastructure Systems” Invited Lecturer, European Council of Computing in Construction Summer School, July 17, 2019, Senigallia, Italy.

“Big” data analytics for construction and infrastructure management: Good, Bad Ugly”. Keynote Presentation, 2019 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, June 18, 2019.

“Smart Construction/Smart Infrastructure” Invited presentation at the Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEİK) meeting, May 29, 2019.

“Research at Carnegie Mellon – The end of disciplinary silos” CMU Istanbul Alumni Event, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2, 2019.

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Infrastructure Management.” Departmental Seminar, Civil and Environmental Engineering department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, April 05, 2019.

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Infrastructure Management.” Distinguished Lecture Series, Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering department, UT Austin, Austin, TX, February 18, 2019.

“Achieving Sustainability Goals: Energy and Infrastructure Monitoring Applications to Hazelwood Green Development.” Hunt Foundation Board Meeting, November 16, 2018.

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Infrastructure Management.” Prota BIM Conference, keynote speaker, October 11, 2018.

“Smart Infrastructure - Resilient Bridges.” PennDOT Research Conference, September 20, 2018, Harrisburg, PA.

“Big Data Analytics for Facility/Infrastructure Operations and Management: Opportunities and Challenges.” Machine Learning in Science and Engineering Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, June 6, 2018.

“3D Imaging for Construction and Infrastructure Management Technological Assessment and Future Research Directions.” EG-ICE, invited preliminary speaker, June 10 2018.

“ Smart Infrastructure – Digital Revolution in Construction and Operations of Infrastructure Systems” Invited Presentation to the C-level executives of Chevron, 04.04.2018

Panel speaker on the topic of “Driving Innovation, Efficiency and Performance in the Built Environment.” Prospect Silicon Valley, CA, February 21, 2018.

“Research in Smart Infrastructure” Annual Conference of PennDOT District 11, February 8, 2018, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Internet of Risky Infrastructure Things”, Presentation to the board of directors of National Safety Council (NSC), January 30, 2018, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Technology-based Construction and Infrastructure Management” Chi Epsilon Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, October 5, 2017.

“BIM and Sensors for Construction and Facility Management” NASA Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley, CA, September 28, 2017.

“Autonomous Aerial Mapping and Inspection For Infrastructure Management” Annual Conference of Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, September, 6, 2017, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Facility/Infrastructure Operations” Korean Construction Institute, July 18, 2017, Seoul, South Korea.

“3D imaging technologies and Information Models for Construction and Infrastructure Management.” Invited Keynote Speaker. International Conference On Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Constructed Infrastructure Facilities ( http://maireinfra.org/ ), July 19, 2017, Seoul, South Korea.

“Smart Infrastructure” Invited lecture at the College of Engineering at University of Texas El Paso, June 8, 2017.

“Smart Infrastructure – Backbone of Sustainable Smart Cities.” Invited speaker for the NSF Sustainable Smart Cities International workshop, May 9, 2017, Alexandria, Egypt ( https://www.sscworkshop.com/ ).

“Internet of Risky Infrastructure” Internet of Risky Things Conference, sponsored by NYU and AIG, April 18, 2017, New York, NY.

“Big data analytics for Facility Management.” Invited speaker for the energy innovation session, Energy Week, Energy Institute, Carnegie Mellon, 03.27.2017

“Autonomous Aerial Mapping and Inspection For Infrastructure Management” American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) luncheon, March 10, 2017, Pittsburgh, PA.

“Using Flying Machines to Assess Infrastructure in Hard-to-Reach Locations” Invited hands-on demo and exhibition. The White House Frontiers Conference, Pittsburgh PA, Oct 13, 2016. Selected as one of the three exhibitors to give a hands-on demonstration to President Obama.

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Infrastructure Management” Keynote presentation at the 12th International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, Sept 23, 2016.

“Big Data Analytics for Facility/Infrastructure Operations and Management: Opportunities and Challenges.” Big Data in the Built Environment Workshop, Ryerson University, June 2016.

“Energy Efficiency Opportunities at the Pittsburgh International Airport “ Honeywell Users Group Conference, June 23, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Facility/Infrastructure Operations.” John L. Tishman Distinguished Lecture, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, February 8, 2016.

“Cognitive Computing for Engineering, Construction, Facility/Infrastructure Management” IBM Day at Carnegie Mellon, December 9, 2015.

“Smart Infrastructure for Smarter Decisions.” Faculty to Global Leaders program, YPO- WPO, September 2015.

“Aerial Inspection Robots in Civil Engineering.” Invited Speaker at CII Board Meeting Dinner, October 2015.

“Visual Sensing and Analytics for Construction and Infrastructure Management.” Plenary Presentation at the Construction Industry Institute’s Annual Conference, 08/04/2015.

"BIM and 3D Imaging for Increasing Situation Awareness and Assessment." CSC'15-The International Construction Specialty Conference; The UBC Construction Innovations Symposium, 06/09/2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_Xp4D08ycA

“Making Infrastructure Systems More Resilient, Sustainable and Robust.” College of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University. (2015). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzBa5drG7ZM

“Building Information Modeling for Asset Management.” United States Chapter of the Institute of Asset Management, US New York Branch, 10/21/2014.

“Model-based Sensor-driven Construction and Infrastructure management", 3D Laser-scanning and Imaging Symposium Japan 2014, 09/26/2014, Tokyo, Japan.

“Situational Awareness In Construction And Facility Management”, ICEST 2014, 06/03/2014.

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Facility/Infrastructure Operations.” Georgia Tech, 05/02/2014.

“Smart Infrastructure Opportunities and Challenges. “ TASSA 2014, Smart Cities Panel, 03/23/2014.

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Facility/Infrastructure Operations.” Technion University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 03/11/2014.

Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Facility/Infrastructure Operations, Carnegie Mellon ASCE student Chapter 01/29/2014.

“Research in Smart Infrastructure” Engineering News Record (ENR) Webinar, October 23, 2013.

“Smart Infrastructure” The Peggy Smedley Show, Radio, 08/02/2013.

“Building Information Modeling and Laser Scanning for Construction and Facility Operations. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, June 18, 2013.

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Facility Operations”, Georgia Tech., February 12, 2013.

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Facility Operations”, John Hopkins, November 28, 2012.

“Big Data: Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Facility Operations” University of Virginia, April 14, 2012.

“Facility Information Modeling and Visualization.” PSII/IBM day, June 2011.

“Sensors and Information Models for Construction and Facility Operations.” University of Madera, May, 2011.

“PSII: Infrastructure/Facilities Information Modeling Laboratory.” PSSI Inauguration Event, April 2011.

“Introduction to Building Information Modeling.” To Brazilian Contractors Association, Pittsburgh, 09/2010.

“Building Information Modeling for Efficient Facility Operations and Energy Management – A survey.” NIBS/CERL Energy Efficient Facilities workshop, July 2010.

“Model-based sensor-enabled construction and facilities management.” Various companies; IBM, CAT. Fall 2010.

“A prototype for integrating work orders with building information models.” Cleveland Clinic Facilities Management, August 2010.

“Building Information Modeling and other Information Technologies for Energy-Efficient Facility Operations and Management.” Carnegie Mellon/Delegates from the congress visit, April 2010.

“Reality Capture Technologies and Building Information Modeling for Situation Awareness and Assessment on Construction Sites.” Columbia University, January 2010.

“Reality Capture Technologies and Building Information Modeling for Situation Awareness and Assessment during Construction and Facility Operations Management.” CIB W78, October 2009, Istanbul, Turkey.

“Building Information Modeling @ Carnegie Mellon” Eco-Build USA, December 2008.

“Model-based Sensor-Enabled Construction Management.” Istanbul Technical University, June 2008.

“Utilization of Building Information Models throughout the Life-Cycle of Facilities: Opportunities and Challenges.” Society of Military Engineers, Pittsburgh, February 2008.

“Utilization of Radio-Frequency Identification Tags (RFID) for Construction Supply-Chain and Facility Management.” Bautech, Berlin, Germany, February 2008.

“Bridge Inspection and Asset management using 3D Imaging Technologies.” International Bridge Conference, Pittsburgh, June 2007.

“Sensor-Enabled Model Based Construction.” May 16, 2007. CenSCIR symposium Carnegie Mellon University.

“Test-beds for construction research.” Construction Congress Testbeds workshop, May 2007.

“Active Quality Control and Generation of As-Built Models During Construction Using 3D Imaging Technologies” SPAR 2007, March 2007, Sugarland Texas.

Utilization of Radio-Frequency Identification Tags (RFID) for Transportation Infrastructure Management: Tracking Engineered-To-Order Elements and Materials throughout their Life-Cycles. Transportation Research Board, January, 2007.

“Automated Tracking of and Capturing Information Related to Engineered-to-Order Products using RFID and GPS”, TRB RFID workshop, 10/17/2006.

“Test-beds for construction research.” NSF/NIST workshop, 09/26/2006.

“Sensor-Enabled Model-Based Construction Management.” Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar Campus, 05/09/2006.

“Model-Based Sensor-Assisted Construction Engineering and Management.” Qatar Foundation, 05/08/2006.

“Model-Based Sensor-Assisted Construction Engineering and Management.” KEO Consultants, 05/07/2006.

“Sensor-enabled construction management” Advanced Infrastructure Systems Symposium, April 28, 2006.

“Automated material tracking and capturing product history using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology.” Transportation Research Board, Committee on New Technology for Design, Pre-construction, and Construction, 01/23/2006.

“ASDMCon Advanced Sensor Based Deviation Detection and Management at Construction Sites, CMU AIS Lab, 12/2005.

“Model-based Sensor-Assisted Construction Engineering and Management.” University of Michigan, 10/20/2005.

“Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFID) for Tracking of Precast Components and their Histories.” PCI Productivity Improvement Domain, 10/2005.

“Model-based Sensor-Assisted Construction Engineering and Management.” Applied computing and mechanics laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 07/21/2005.

“Model-based Computer-Aided Construction Engineering and Management.” Department of Civil Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 07/08/2005.

“Robust Planning, Situation Awareness and Situation Assessment on Construction Sites.” Advanced Infrastructure Systems symposium, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, 04/29/2005.

“Building Information Models (BIMs) and research at the Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon,” Michael Baker, Jr. Inc. 03/16/2005.

“Situation awareness and situation assessment on construction sites,” Bombardier, Pittsburgh, (10/2005).

“ASDMCon: Advanced Sensor Based Deviation Detection and Management at Construction Sites.” NSF ITR Grantees meeting, June 9, 2004, (one of the eight plenary speakers out of roughly four hundred PIs attended the meeting).

“ASDMCon and Collaborative Innovation Center” Dean’s advisory council, 04/07/2004, Pittsburgh.

“Using sensor systems and standard project models to capture and model project history for building commissioning and facility management.” Civil Engineering Research Lab, US Army, 02/26/2004.

Situation awareness, situation assessment and proactive scheduling on construction sites. Department of Civil Engineering, Construction Management program, University of Illinois, IL, 02/27/2004.

“Utilizing Radio Frequency Identification on Precast Concrete Components – Supplier’s Perspective.” FIATECH Smart Chips Project Virtual Workshop, 12/16/2003.

“Visualization of as-built conditions on construction sites.” Civil Engineering Conference & Exposition, Visualization session, Nashville, TN, 11/13/2003.

“Combining Reality Capture Technologies for Construction Defect Detection: A Case Study.” EIA9, Istanbul, Turkey, 10/2003.

“Overview of the Civil Infrastructure Systems Program at Carnegie Mellon University.” Presented to the board of advisors of the Civil Engineering department at Rensellear Polytechnic Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 10/2003.

“Early Construction Defect Detection using Laser Scanners, Embedded Sensors and Integrated project Models.” Dow Chemical Corp., Houston, Texas, 06/2003.

“Early Construction Defect Detection using Laser Scanners, Embedded Sensors and Integrated project Models.” Intel Corp., Phoenix, Arizona, 06/2003.

“Data Exchange Issues on Sensor-Based Defect Detection and Management on Construction Sites.” Workshop on Data Exchange, NIST, May 28-29, 2003, Gaithersburg, MD.

“ASDMCon: Advanced Sensor Based Defect Detection and Management on Construction Sites – Year 2 Review.” NIST, May, 2003, Gaithersburg, MD.

“ASDMCon: Advanced Sensor Based Defect Detection and Management on Construction Sites.” Advanced Infrastructure Systems Lab Workshop, 10/16/2002, Carnegie Mellon University.

“Active Defect Detection at Construction Sites using Integrated Project models, Laser Scanners and Embedded Sensing Systems,” Advanced Infrastructure Systems Lab Open house, 04/13/2002 (poster presentation), Carnegie Mellon University.

“4D CAD Simulation of the Installation of PSC’s Terrascale Computer,” Advanced Infrastructure Systems Lab Open house, 04/13/2002 (poster presentation), Carnegie Mellon University.

“Early Defect Detection at Construction Sites using Integrated Project Models, Laser Scanners and Embedded Sensing Systems,” NIST, Construction Automation and Construction Metrology research groups, 03/13/2002.

“Early Defect Detection at Construction Sites using Integrated Project Models, Laser Scanners and Embedded Sensing Systems,” ICES, Advanced Infrastructure Lab meeting, Carnegie Mellon University, 03/01/2002.

“Automated Time-Space Conflict Analysis and Active Defect Detection at Construction Sites Using Integrated Project Models and Advanced Sensor Systems,” Civil Engineering Department, Purdue University, December 2001.

“Early Defect Detection at Construction Sites,” Senator Stouff and PennDOT representatives, Carnegie Mellon University, July 2001.

“Modeling, Visualizing and Analyzing Construction Processes,” representatives of Hochtief’s research and development branch, Carnegie Mellon University, March 2001.

“Project Management – Making it Real,” CEE 100, Introduction to Civil and Environ. Eng. course, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 200-2014.

“4D WorkPlanner: Hands-on Session,” Center for Integrated Facility Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, September 15, 2000.

“Formalization and Automation of Time-Space Conflict Analysis,” University of California, Berkeley, June 30, 2000.

Chair on Taskforce on Fostering Inclusive Communities, ASCE, 2021 -

Board Member, International Association and Automation in Construction

Board Member, Engineering Research Council, ASEE, June 2019 – September 2021

Assoc. Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

Member, Building Smart Alliance Education Committee, NIBS

Member of Chi-Epsilon

Member, American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE)

Board Member, Turkiye’nin Muhendis Kizlari (Women Engineers of Turkey), Limak.

Board Member, International Facility Management Association, Health Care Institute. – 2014-2016

Member, Construction Research Council, ASCE, 03/2003

Member, Database and Information Management Committee, ASCE, 11/2003 –

Member, Intelligent Computing Committee, ASCE, 06/2006 –

Member, AGC BIM-Education committee.

Co-Chair, International workshop on computing in civil Engineering, ASCE, July 24-27, 2007, Pittsburgh, USA