Lucio Soibelman

Professor Soibelman is the Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering Professor at USC. He obtained his BS and MS Degrees from UFRGS, Brazil and worked as a construction manager for 10 years before he obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering Systems from MIT. During the last 30 years as a professor at UIUC, CMU, and now at USC he focused his research on advanced data acquisition, management, visualization, and mining for construction and operations of advanced infrastructure systems. He published over 250 books, books chapters, journal papers, and conference articles and performed research with funding from NSF, NASA, DOE, US Army, NIST, IBM, Bosch, IDOT, RedZone Robotics among many others funding agencies. He received many awards including ASCE’s Computing Award, Construction Management Award, and Peurifoy Construction Research award. He is an ASCE Distinguished member, a member of the Pan American Academy of Engineering, and a Member of the National Academy of Construction.