EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, August 2005.
• M.S., Civil Engineering, The University of Washington, Seattle, USA, August 2002.
• B.S., Civil Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, June 2000.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS, AND CERTIFICATIONS

• EIT (Michigan; April 2003)

• Certificate on Principles and Practice of University Teaching and Learning Program, The University of Sydney, 2007.

• Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education), The University of Sydney, 2007.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES

• Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (current)

• Construction Research Council, Construction Institute, ASCE (current)

• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) (current)

• The Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (since 2007)

• Australia and New Zealand Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA) (2007-2008)

• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Member (since 2008)

CITATIONS

• The International Directory of Experts and Expertise 2007.

• Who's Who in Engineering 2007.

• Who's Who in Fine Arts 2007.

• Dictionary of International Biography (35th Edition, 2009).

• Leading Professionals of the World 2008.

• The Australian Directory of Academics (2009 Edition)

EDITORIAL SERVICE

• Assistant Specialty Editor, Project Planning and Design, ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management.  

• Guest Editor, Automation in Construction, Elsevier, 2009.

REFEREE OF TECHNICAL JOURNALS

1. Paper Reviewer, Automation in Construction, 2004-present.

2. Paper Reviewer, ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 2005-present.

3. Paper Reviewer, ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2005-present.

4. Paper Reviewer, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 2005-present.

5. Paper Reviewer,  Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon), 2006-present

6. Paper Reviewer, Virtual Reality, Springer London, since 2007

7. Paper Reviewer, International Journal of Architectural Computing, since 2007

8. Paper Reviewer, Interacting with Computers, since 2007

9. Paper Reviewer, Computers in Industry, since 2007

10. Paper Reviewer, Design Studies, since 2007

11. Paper Reviewer, Journal of Civil Engineering and Management, since 2007

12. Paper reviewer, Computer-aided Design, since 2007.

13. Paper Reviewer, International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, since 2007

14. Paper Reviewer, International Journal of Design, since 2007

15. Paper Reviewer, Tsinghua Science and Technology, Elsevier, since 2006

16. Paper Reviewer, International Journal of Arts and Technology, since 2008

17. Paper Reviewer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, since 2008

18. Paper Reviewer, Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM), since 2008

19. Paper Reviewer, International Journal of Service-Oriented Computing and Applications, since 2008.

CHAIRED INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCES

1. Chair, The 9^th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality, November 5-6, 2009, Sydney, Australia.

2. Chair, The Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications, Integration and Collaboration (SOAIC 2009), 2009 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2008), October, 2009, Macau, China.

3. Co-Chair, The Fifth Annual Conference on Collaboration Technologies 2009 (CollabTech2009), August 12-14, 2009, Sydney, Australia.

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

1. Invited Member, Organization Advise Committee, The Sixth International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering (CDVE 2009), September 20-23, 2009. Luxemburg.

2. Invited Member, Technical Committee, special session on computer-supported cooperative work in design (CSCWD), 2009 IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, October 11-14, 2009, San Antonio, Texas, USA

3. Session Chair for “Service-Oriented Applications, Integration and Collaboration”, 2008 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2008), October 22-24 Xi'An, China.

4. Session Chair for “Virtual Reality for Cooperative Design”, The 12^th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2008), April 16-18, 2008, Xi’An, China.

5. Invited Member, Organization committee, 2008 International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE 2008), Beijing, China, October 16-18, 2008.

6. Session Chair for “Advanced Computing in Civil, Building and Urban Engineering (5)”, 2008 International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE 2008), Beijing, China, October 16-18, 2008.

7. Invited Member, Organization Advise Committee, The Fifth International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering (CDVE 2008), Mallorca, Spain, September 21-25, 2008.

8. Session Chair, The 11^th IEEE International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2007), April 26-28, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.

9. Session Chair for “Environment Visualization, BuiltViz”, The 11th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization (IV’07), 4-6 July, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland. 

10. Session Chair The 4th International Structural Engineering and Construction Conference (ISEC-4), September 26-28, 2007, Melbourne, Australia.

INVITED MEMBER ON COMMITTEE FOR RESEARCH CONFERENCES

1. Invited Member, International Scientific Committee, 6th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR), August 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA.

2. Invited Member, International Scientific Committee, 7th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality (CONVR), October 2007, Pen State University, Pennsylvania, USA.

3. Invited Member, International Scientific Committee, the 4^th International Conference on Construction in the 21^st century, July 11-13, 2007, Gold Coast, Australia.

4. Invited Member, Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization, 2007 International Symposium of Visualization in Built Environment (BuiltVis), 4-6 July, 2007, Zurich, Switzerland. 

5. Invited Member, International Scientific and Technical Committee, the 4th International structural Engineering and Construction Conference (ISEC-4), September 26-28, 2007, Melbourne, Australia. (1 paper)

6. Paper Reviewer, Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures 2007 (CADDFuture2007), July 11-13, 2007, Sydney, Australia. (3 papers reviewed)

7. Paper Reviewer, the 12th Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2007), April 19-22, 2007, Nanjing, China. (8 papers reviewed)

8. Invited Member, Scientific Committee, 24^th CIB W78 International Conference on Information Technology in Construction, 27-29 June, 2007, Maribor, Slovenia. (3 papers).

9. Invited Member, International Review Committee, 13th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM'07), 23–26 September, Brisbane, Australia.

10. Invited Member, International Scientific Committee, 2008 International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE 2008), Beijing, China, October, 2008.

11. Program Committee Member, The 12^th International Conference on CSCW in Design, April 14-16, 2008, Xi’An, China.

12. Paper Reviewer Committee, 2007 Conference of APIEM (Asia Pacific Industrial Engineering Management), Taiwan.

13. SIGCHI Reviewer and Mentor, ACM SIGCHI 2008 (Computer-Human Interaction), April 5-10, Florence, Italy.

14. Invited Member, Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee, the 12th IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization, 2008 International Symposium of Visualization in Built Environment (BuiltVis), July, 2008, UK. 

15. Advisory Board Member, Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'08 or DCC08), 23–25 June 2008, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
16. Paper Reviewer Committee, The Fifth International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering.
17. Invited Reviewer, The 6th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT 2008).
18. Invited Reviewer, The 2nd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management (KGCM 2008).
19. Member, Academic Committee, The 13th Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2008), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 28-30 April, 2008.
20. Invited Member, Scientific Committee, The International Construction Innovation Forum (as part of the 36th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering), Quebec City, Canada, 10-13 June, 2008.
21. Invited Member, Technical Program Committee, 2008 Second International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI'08), Bonn, Germany, 18-21 February.
22. Invited Member, Scientific Committee, the 42nd Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA 2008), University of Newcastle, Newcastle, Australia, November, 2008.
23. Member, Program Committee, Curious Places: Workshop on Self-Aware Systems for Intelligent Environments, Part of the Sixth International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Sydney, Australia, May 19-22, 2008.
24. Invited member, Program Committee, IEEE The 8th International Conference on Information Technology and Application, Sydney, Australia, July 8-11, 2008.
25. Invited Member, International Paper Review Panel, the Seventh International Symposium on Tools and Methods of Competitive Engineering (TMCE 2008), Izmir, Turkey, 21-25 April, 2008.
26. Program Committee Member, Workshop on High Tech/High Touch: Digital and Analog Design Tools, part of Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC'08 or DCC08), 23–25 June 2008, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA.
27. Invited Member, Program Committee Member, 2008 IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2008), The Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications, Integration and Collaboration (SOAIC 2008), October 22-24 Xi'An, China.
28. Invited Reviewer, The 7th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies (CCCT 2009).
29. Invited Reviewer, The 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management (KGCM 2009).
30. Member, Paper Reviewing Committee, 2009 ASCE Construction Research Congress, 5-7 April, Seattle, USA.
31. SIGCHI Reviewer and Mentor, ACM SIGCHI 2009 (Computer-Human Interaction), April 4-9, Boston, USA.
32. Invited member, reviewing Committee, Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures 2009 (CADDFuture2009), June 17-19, 2009, Montreal, Canada.
33. Invited Member, Academic Committee, the 14^th Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2009), April 22-25, Yunlin, Taiwan.
34. Program Committee Member, The 13^th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2009), April 22-24, 2009, Santiago, Chile.

EXTENSION, SERVICE, AND UNIVERSITY OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Workshops

• Engineering Education Workshop . A one-day engineering education workshop for planning the future graduate research program of the newly-created Department of Engineering Education, held at Purdue University , May 14, 2004. I was invited to give my views from a graduate student's perspective on various aspects of topics including developing potential research areas in engineering education, identifying the areas for focus for the new Department of Engineering Education and the areas of collaboration with other faculty from outside the department, and outlining the new graduate program that will support the scholarly activities of the new department.

University Programs

• Information Day for U. of Sydney, January 2007.

Faculty Committee

• Committee for Flexible Entry Portfolio Assessment (with Andy Dong and Rob Saunders), January 2007.

• Research and research training committee, March 2008-presence.

  　

Other Activities

• External Examiner, School of Information Systems and Technology, University of Wollongong, Australia, October 2007.

• Invited Board Member, special school advisory group, School of the Built Environment, Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney.

THESIS EXAMINED

1. Motasim Billah, Masters of Design Science (Design Computing), "Tracking stack markers, an Augmented Reality Prototype for early stage Architectural Design", Semester 1, 2006.

2. Yohann Daruwala, Master of Philosophy (Design Computing), “A Constructive Memory Approach to Context Awareness”, Semester 2, 2007.

3. Zhi Huang, Master of Information and Communication Technology (Research), “An Investigative Study on Barriers of Effectively Implementing Knowledge Management System in Chinese Organizations: Through a Cultural Perspective”, Semester 2, 2007.

4. Lyza Marie Dator, Bachelor of Design Computing (Honours), “User Interfaces Evaluating Information Presentation in the Game World of Warcraft”, Semester 2, 2007.

University

School of Architecture

Sydney

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