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BC Professor wins Best Paper Award
Seattle, WA (April 10, 2009) —
Dr. Ioannis Brilakis, Assistant Professor in Building Construction and Civil and Environmental Engineering, and his Ph.D. student Zhenhua Zhu, received the Best Paper Award of the 2009 ASCE Construction Research Congress (CRC). CRC is the largest premiere construction conference in the US, and was held April 4-7 in Seattle, WA.
The title of the paper is “Real-Time Concrete Damage Visual Assessment for First Responders”. The award was announced during the closing ceremony held on Tuesday, April 7.
More than 170 papers competed for this award, with over 190 authors from 22 countries participating in this conference.
Dr. Ioannis Brilakis joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in January 2009. He received his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2001. He continued his studies at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, where he obtained an MS in 2002 and a PhD in 2005. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (July 05 to December 08). Dr. Brilakis is the Director of the Construction Information Technology Laboratory (CITL), an active member of several academic and professional organizations, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, and the Elsevier Journal of Advanced Engineering Informatics.
Zhenhua Zhu is a doctoral student in Construction Engineering. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering and an MS in Computer Science, and is expected to graduate with his Ph.D. in Spring 2010. His research interests include visual pattern recognition of structural members, and damage and defects detection in concrete. Zhenhua conducts research in the Construction Information Technology laboratory under the direction of Assistant Professor Ioannis Brilakis.
CRC conferences are held every year. The next is scheduled for 2010 in Canada.
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