Construction Information Technology Laboratory

Alumni

Post-doctoral Fellows

Fei Dai, Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of West Virginia

Dr. Dai joined the CIT group in November 2010. His main research interests were applied photo/video-grammetry and computer vision for 3D modeling, quantity surveying, and augmented reality in construction. He was working on the NSF sponsored reciprocal 3D reconstruction project for modeling of construction facilities.

Christian Koch, Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Current Position: Akademischer Rat, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Mr. Koch joined the CIT research group in January 2010 and oversaw the synthesis and validation activities of the NSF sponsored vision tracking project. In parallel, he initiated a new project on pavement condition assessment systems through machine vision.






PhD students

Stephanie German, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Candidate, graduated in 2013
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow at EPFL

Dr. German was a PhD Candidate in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. She was working on the NSF sponsored Machine Vision Enhanced Post Earthquake Inspection project. Her work focused on creating image-based automated detection algorithms of damage and damage properties on reinforced concrete columns. In addition, her work included creating a classification model of damage indices for RC columns based on this visual damage information.

Man Woo Park, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Candidate, graduated in 2012
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Myongji Univeristy

Dr. Park was a Ph.D. Candidate doing research in construction object classification from video data. His thesis focused on robust 3D tracking through multiple video region matching, and feature identification and recognition based on visual pattern recognition models.

Zhenhua Zhu, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Candidate, graduated in 2011
Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of Concordia

Dr. Zhu was a Ph.D. Candidate doing research in real time concrete damage visual assessment for first responders. His thesis has proposed a novel method that can provide first responders with a crude but quick estimate of the safety of damaged structures. Now he is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University, Canada.

Atefe Makhalbaf

Ph.D. Student, expected graduation in 2013

Ms. Makhmalbaf was a Ph.D. student that explored the research field of automated equipment recognition from video, for intelligent, machine-vision-based tracking of construction equipment in large scale project sites. Her work was part of the NSF sponsored automated vision tracking of project related entities project, and is published in several conference proceedings and journals.






Master students

Evangelos Palinginis

Research Assistant
M.S. Student, graduated in 2012

Mr. Palinginis was a M.S. student whose research interests were focused on decision making under uncertainty in constructional complexity, including dimensioning comparison and selection of large scale construction configurations.

Keitaro Kamiya

Research Assistant
M.S. Student, graduated in 2012

Mr. Kamiya was a M.S. student doing research in area of object detection and tracking for construction and transportation applications.

Matthew Sandidge

M.S. Student, graduated in 2012

Mr. Sandidge was a M.S. student whose research involved working with other students to create a “Construction Inspection Manual” for Georgia Department of Transportation ( GDOT). He was working on the Earthwork section and as well working on developing new ideas with Intelligent Compaction (IC). He is currently working as a Civil Engineer for AMEC.

Aswathy Sivaram

M.S. Student, graduated in 2010

Ms. Sivaram explored the research field of machine-vision-based automations for as-built Building Information Modeling. She focused on fundamental coursework in the fields of object oriented programming and signal processing, along with core courses in civil engineering.

Paavan Vasuden

M.S. student, graduated in 2009

Mr. Vasudev improved an "all-purpose" software platform to be used as the foundation for the implementation of the research projects that take place in CITL. This managed C++ platform provides a .NET based interface for GUI design, sensor connectivity via xmlrpc, graphics via Direct3D, and a host of computer vision algorithms via OpenCV.

Francisco Cordova

M.S. student, graduated in 2008

Mr. Cordova's research was on 3D tracking using a camera set. He tested a novel positioning method based on photogrammetric principles, on video data sets collected during the summer of 2008 from various large scale construction sites in Greece, under an NSF IREE sponsored project.

Changli Wang

M.S. student, graduated in 2007

Now working as project engineer for CITIC Group, Australia.

Chieh Cheng Huang

M.S. student, graduated in 2007

Now working for PMA Consultants.









Visiting scholars

Bahriye Ilhan

Visiting Scholar, Fall 2011
Current Position: PhD student, Istanbul Technical University

Ms. Ilhan joined the CIT lab as a visiting scholar during the Fall Semester of 2011. She was working on object category properties and property ranges in the IFC standard for visual pattern recognition..

Abishek Gupta

Visiting Scholar, Spring 2009

Mr. Gupta worked at the CIT lab as a visiting scholar under the NSF sponsored vision tracking of project related entities grant. His work focused on running experiments and recording results. He also supervised a team of undergraduate students in assembling one of the CITL test beds.