Appointments

  • January ’19 to today – Senior Lecturer for Project Management
    School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • July ’09 to January ’19- Senior Lecturer for Construction Management
    School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • July ’15 to December ’17- Program Manager for Construction Management (onshore)
    School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Aug. ’06 to July ’09 – Assistant Professor
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.
  • Aug. ’05 to Aug. ’06 – Visiting Lecturer
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA.
  • Aug. ’01 to Aug. ’05 – Research and Teaching Assistant
    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Service

  • Scientific Committee Member for the CIB W78 Information Technology for Construction 39th Conference (27-30 June 2022, Melbourne, Australia)
  • Founding Committee Member of MelBIM (January 2015 – February 2024)
  • International Scientific Committee Member for the 52nd International Conference of the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA) (28 Nov – 1 Dec 2018, Melbourne, Australia)
  • Technical Committee Member for the ASCE’s 2017 International Workshop on Computing for Civil Engineering (IWCCE 2017) (July 2016 – June 2017)
  • Member of the Learning and Teaching Committee of RMIT’s School of Property, Construction and Project Management (July 2015 – December 2017)
  • Associate Member of RMIT University’s Centre for Integrated Project Solution (CIPS) (October 2013 – February 2016  and August 2016 – November 2016)
  • Interim Co-Director of RMIT University’s Centre for Integrated Project Solution (CIPS) (February 2016 – August 2016)
  • Member of the e-Learning Innovation Incubator Group at RMIT’s College for Design and Social Context (August 2014 – December 2016)
  • Member of the RMIT University College Human Ethics Advisory Network (March 2014 – July 2015)
  • Associate Member of RMIT University’s Centre for Construction Work Health and Safety Research (December 2012 – December 2014)
  • Chair of the Information Technology Strategy Committee of RMIT University’s School of Property, Construction and Project Management (January 2011 – December 2013)
  • Reviewer for multiple ASCE journals and conferences (2005 – today)
  • Acting Program Director for Construction Management at RMIT University’s School of Property, Construction and Project Management (June 2013)
  • Associate Editor for ASCE’s Journal of Computing In Civil Engineering (August 2006 – January 2013)
  • Acting Chair of the Learning and Teaching Committee of RMIT University’s School of Property, Construction and Project Management (July 2012 – January 2013)
  • Deputy Chair of the Learning and Teaching Committee of RMIT University’s School of Property, Construction and Project Management (February 2011 –  July 2012)
  • Member of the Learning and Teaching Leadership Group of RMIT University’s College of Design and Social Context (February 2011-December 2011, July 2012-January 2013)
  • Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) (2005-2012)
  • Acting Program Director for Construction Management at RMIT University’s School of Property, Construction and Project Management (October – November 2011)
  • Technical Committee Member for the 4th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management (Sydney, 16-18 February 2011) (2010)
  • Technical Committee Member for CIB W099 – Safety and Health in Construction: Working Together: Planning, Designing and Building a Healthy and Safe Construction Industry, Melbourne, Australia, 21-23 October 2009 (2009)
  • Panel Member of the 2007 Best Paper Award Panel for the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering (2008)
  • Member of the Teaching Modules Review Board of ASCE’s Global Center of Excellence in Computing (2007)

Education

Ph.D., Civil Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Graduation: May 2006

Thesis Title:

Modeling of and Reasoning about Construction Specifications to Support Automated Defect Detection

Thesis Title:

Component-based Provision of CAD-Functionality for Engineering Applications

Thesis Title (German):

Bereitstellung von CAD-Funktionalität für Ingenieuranwendungen als Komponenten der Benutzeroberfläche

Dipl.-Ing., Computer-Aided Civil Engineering

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

Graduation: March 2001