Martin Fischer: Teaching Overview: Ph.D. Advisees
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.

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.

Florian B. Aalami, Using Method Models to Generate 4D Production Models, August 1998

Dr. Aalami is the President of ADAPT Structural Concrete Software.

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.

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.

Ragip Akbas, Geometry Based Modeling and Simulation of Construction Processes, August 2003

Dr. Akbas is the Program Manager for Construction Solutions at Autodesk.

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.

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.

Arto Kiviniemi, Product Model Based Requirements Management, March 2005

Dr. Kiviniemi is the Vice President of Innovation and Development at Granlund in Finland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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