| This page lists the Ph.D. students for whom I served or am serving as the Principal Thesis Advisor. 14 Ph.D. students have graduated (9 are in academia and 5 in industry). I am currently the main advisor for 14 Ph.D. students. |
| Ph.D. students who have graduated (in chronological order): |
| Mark
Clayton, co-advised with P. Teicholz, A Virtual Product Model for Conceptual
Building Design Evaluation, July 1998
Dr. Clayton is the Nelson Mitchell Professor in Residential Design and the Associate Director of the Center for Housing and Urban Development in the Department of Architecture in the College
of Architecture at Texas A&M University.
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| William
J. O'Brien, Capacity Costing Approaches for Construction Supply-Chain
Management, August 1998
Dr. O'Brien is Associate Professor of Construction Engineering and Project Management Program in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
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| Florian B. Aalami, Using Method Models
to Generate 4D Production Models, August 1998
Dr. Aalami is the President of ADAPT Structural Concrete Software.
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| Burcu
Akinci, Automatic Generation of Work Spaces and Analysis of
Time-Space Conflicts at Construction Sites, June 2000
Dr. Akinci is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
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| Sheryl
Staub-French, Feature-driven Activity-based Cost Estimating,
June 2002
Dr. Staub-French is Associate Professor of Civil Engineering and Coordinator of the Engineering Management Program at the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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| Ragip
Akbas, Geometry Based Modeling and Simulation of Construction
Processes, August 2003
Dr. Akbas is the Program Manager for Construction Solutions at Autodesk.
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| John
Haymaker, The Perspective Approach: Enabling Engineers to Construct
and Integrate Views and Generate an Evolving Project Model, December
2003
Dr. Haymaker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
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| Bonsang
Koo, Formalizing Construction Sequencing Constraints for the
Rapid Generation of Scheduling Alternatives, December 2003
Dr. Koo is an Assistant Professor at Seoul National University of Technology in Korea.
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Arto Kiviniemi, Product Model Based Requirements Management, March 2005
Dr. Kiviniemi is the Vice President of Innovation and Development at Granlund in Finland.
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Calvin Kam, Dynamic Decision Breakdown Structure: Ontology, Methodology, and Framework For Information Management In Support Of Decision-Enabling Tasks in the Building Industry, December 2005
Dr. Kam is the Vice President for Strategic Innovation for Optima.He is also a Consulting Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
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Jonghoon Kim, Temporary Structure Planning Ontology, December 2006
Dr. Kim is the Director for Virtual Design and Construction for Accu-Crete. He is also a Consulting Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
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Timo Hartmann, A Grassroots Model of Decision Support System Implementations by Construction Project Teams, March 2008
Dr. Hartmann is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Twente in The Netherlands.
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Claudio Mourgues, Method to Produce Field Instructions from Product and Process Models, December 2008
Dr. Mourgues an Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Engineering and Management (Departamento de Ingeniería y Gestión de la Construcción) at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile.
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Kathleen Liston, A Mediated-Interaction Approach to Study the Role of Media Use in Team Interaction, September 2009
Dr. Liston is the CEO of Eco Offsite.
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| Current Ph.D. students (in alphabetical order): |
| Austin Becker, Impacts of Climate Change on International Seaports and Port-based Economies: Risks, Vulnerabilities, and Strategies for Resiliency, tbd, (together with Pam Matson, School of Earth Sciences). |
| Maria Brilaki, tbd, tbd. |
| Sangwoo Cho, ERP Application of Real-Time VDC-Enabled Last Planner System for Planning Reliability Improvement, tbd. |
| Ning (Tony) Dong, Crew-based Look-Ahead Planning Process, tbd. |
| Julia Gao, A Framework to Document the Implementation of 3D/4D Modeling on Projects, December 2009. |
| Robert Graebert, As-built BIM Generation from Semi-Automated Field Surveys, tbd. |
| Peggy Ho, 4D-Model-Based Analysis of Renovation Phasing Schedules, December 2009. |
| Atul Khanzode, A Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) enabled Lean Process for Coordination of Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) Systems, June 2010. |
| Wendy Li, Life-Cycle Analysis of a Virtual Building from the Perspective of a General Contractor, tbd. |
| Seungkoon
Lyu, Representation and Application of Building Component Conditions to Identify Building Components Conforming to Particular Specifications Using a 4D Production Model, December 2009. |
| Tobias Maile, Evaluation of Energy Performance of HVAC Systems based on Comparison of Observations and Predictions, December 2009. |
| Rene Morkos, Automated 4D Sequencer and Resource Modeler, tbd. |
| Forest Peterson, Model-based Quantity Management for Construction Project Management, tbd. |
| Mauricio Toledo, A Method to Quickly Identify Underperforming Buildings with Respect to Energy and Water Consumption within a Building Portfolio, December 2009. |