Activities in Honorary Fraternities and Professional Societies
  • Chair, Taskforce on Computing in Civil Engineering for All, ASCE, 2021 ‐
  • Board Member, International Association and Automation in Construction
  • Board Member, Engineering Research Council, ASEE, June 2019 – September 2021
  • Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Member, Building Smart Alliance Education Committee, NIBS
  • Member of Chi‐Epsilon
  • Member, American Society of Engineering Educators (ASEE)
  • Board Member, Turkiye’nin Muhendis Kizlari (Engineering Girls of Turkey), Limak
  • Board Member, International Facility Management Association, Health Care Institute, 2014‐2016
  • Member, Construction Research Council, ASCE, 03/2003
  • Member, Database and Information Management Committee, ASCE, 11/2003 –
  • Member, Intelligent Computing Committee, ASCE, 06/2006 –
  • Member, AGC BIM‐Education Committee
  • Co‐Chair, International workshop on computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, July 24‐27, 2007, Pittsburgh, USA
Professional Services
  • NAS Board Member, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, 02/2020‐
  • NAS Committee Member on the Review of Effectiveness and Efficiency of Defense Environmental Cleanup Activities of the Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management 02/2020 -
  • ASCE Blue Sky Advisory Committee 05/2021‐
  • Organized 2020‐2021 CEE Rising Stars workshop
  • Board Member, Engineering Research Council, ASEE, June 2019 ‐
  • Associate Editor (member of editorial board), Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
  • Review Board, Purdue Construction Engineering and Management program, March 2019
  • Review Board, City University of Hong Kong: 5 Year Review of Academic Excellence (RoE5) for Division of Building Science and Technology, January 2018
  • Specialty Editor on Construction Informatics/Editorial Board, Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE
  • Associate Editor, Advanced Engineering Informatics
  • Associate Editor, Automation in Construction
  • Specialty Editor, Sensors in Construction and Infrastructure Management, ITCon
  •  Editorial board, ITCon
  • NRC Committee Member on Predicting the Outcomes of Facility Investments 09/2009 ‐ 2012
Reviewer for the Following Journals
  • Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
  • Automation in Construction
  • Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
  • Advanced Engineering Informatics
  • Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
  • Construction Management and Economics
  • Journal of Infrastructure Systems
  • Canadian Journal for Civil Engineering
  • IT in A/E/C
Reviewer for the Following Funding Agencies
  • National Science Foundation
  • EPSRC
  • EPSCOR
  • Swiss National Foundation
Regular Reviewer and Session Chair for the Following Conferences
  • Construction Congress
  • Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering
  • ICCCBE
  • ISARC
Advisory Board
  • Division of Building Science and Technology, City University of Hong Kong, January 2017
Invited Participant of the Following Workshops (examples)
  • NSF workshop on SUS Workshop on Sustainable Integration of Urban Automation, July 29-20, 2019, Pittsburgh, PA.
  • NSF Workshop on Setting a Broader Impact Innovation Roadmap; May 26-27, 2016, Arlington, Virginia
  • Construction Research Council’s workshop on “Attracting minorities for graduate studies within the construction domain.”
  • NSF Supported workshop on “NSF Workshop – Collaborative Practice: When Engineering Design Meets Architecture.” November 4-5, 2010, Philadelphia, PA.
  • NSF supported workshop on “Academic Response to the FIATECH roadmap,” 10/2004.
  • Intel Corp. supported, Intel University Day, 2003, Phoenix, AZ, October 2003
  • NSF Engineering Education Scholars Workshop 2000, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA, July16-21, 2000.
  • NSF Defining a Research Agenda for AEC Process/Product Development in 2000 and Beyond, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, August 25-28, 2000.