Updates to Journal of Construction Engineering and Management Editorial Board

Dr. Marwa Hassan is the Performance Contractors Distinguished Assistant Professor in the Department of Construction Management, College of Engineering, at Louisiana State University (LSU). She is also the Graduate Coordinator for the department. Her area of expertise is laboratory characterization and life-cycle assessment of sustainable infrastructure materials. Dr. Hassan employed life-cycle assessment techniques to determine the impacts of hot-mix asphalt construction operations, including warm-mix asphalt. In 2003, she received the Architectural Research Centers Consortium King Medal for her work on sustainable technology; this medal is awarded annually, when merited, to the most deserving research associate in the College of Architecture at Virginia Tech. In 2008, she was awarded the Performance Contractors Professorship by the College of Engineering at LSU for her teaching and research activities. Dr. Hassan has 32 refereed journal publications and 50 refereed conference proceedings as well as a book chapter. She is currently a member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee AFH30, Committee on Application of Emerging Technologies to Design and Construction AFD001, and Pavement Sustainability Subcommittee, as well as the Design and Construction Group Young Member Subcommittee. She is also a member of the Construction Industry Institute (CII) Academic Committee and a friend of the Sustainable Pavement Technical Work Group. She supervised one Ph.D. student and five M.S. students to completion.

Dr. Yong Cho received his B.S. in civil engineering from Inha University in South Korea in 1996. The focus area for his graduate studies was construction engineering and management in civil engineering, and he received his M.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997 and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. He is currently an associate professor in the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and director of the Robotics and Intelligent Construction Automation Lab. He was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Award from the Civil Infrastructure Systems program in 2011. His major research areas include innovations in highway infrastructure construction and maintenance, construction automation and robotics, and sustainable energy in the built environment.

Dr. Kunhee Choi joined Texas A&M University as a faculty member in September 2010. He is currently an assistant professor in the Construction Science Department while also serving as an assistant research scientist at Texas A&M Transportation Institute. Prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M University, he was a researcher for six years in the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies. He holds a bachelor of engineering in architectural engineering from Korea University and a master of science in construction management from Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Choi directs ${\mathrm{i}}^2\mathrm{DEAS}$ Lab with a clear vision to develop, test, and validate tools, methods, and strategies to optimize the efficiency of the transportation system in megacities through collaboration in a vibrant network among academia, government, and industry. Dr. Choi’s research interests fall into four key areas that address a unique spectrum of challenges and issues facing state transportation agencies, daily commuters, and business enterprises: (1) integrated transportation informatics utilizing big data, (2) time-cost trade-off performance analysis of different types of projects built under different project delivery systems, (3) decision-support models for the better assessment of infrastructure sustainability, and (4) cost-schedule-change-labor productivity-profitability interdependence analysis. In the area of transportation informatics, he has developed a novel spatiotemporal modeling framework to fully automate and optimize the construction work zone traffic impact analysis mandated by a new federal rule. Once successfully completed, the framework developed in Dr. Choi’s research will allow agency engineers to perform the required analysis much more quickly and accurately in a fundamentally new way, which will potentially save taxpayers millions of dollars by providing an automated and reliable method that would be smarter (better mobility, less travel time during lane closures, and less road user cost) and greener (fewer vehicle operating costs and fewer global warming gases).

Dr. Zhenhua Zhu is an assistant professor in the Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He earned his M.Eng. in computer science and technology from Zhejiang University, China, and his Ph.D. in civil engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta. He has been working as a researcher and software engineer in the areas of computer-aided design, virtual reality, remote sensing, and construction information technology since 2002. The overall objective of his research is to promote automation in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. His work has been funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and recognized with numerous awards, including the Best Paper Award at the 2009 Construction Research Congress. Dr. Zhu has been actively involved in several academic and professional organizations. He is an elected member of three committees of the ASCE Technical Council on Computing and Information Technology and serves as a peer reviewer for several ASCE and Elsevier journals. In 2012, he was selected as Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management and the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.

I also take great pleasure in announcing two promotions within the Editorial Board. We congratulate you and look forward to your continued support in your new roles!

The first is the appointment of Dr. Gunnar Lucko as the Senior Specialty Editor. Dr. Lucko is an associate professor of civil engineering at Catholic University of America (CUA) and Director of its Construction Engineering and Management Program, which is a specialization within the undergraduate and graduate studies in civil engineering. He has been a full-time faculty member since 2005. He received his doctor of philosophy and master of science degrees in civil engineering from the Vecellio Construction Engineering and Management Program at Virginia Tech in 2003 and 1999, respectively. He also holds a civil engineering diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) with specializations in structural and environmental engineering from Hamburg University of Technology in his native Germany. Prior to this appointment, he was the Specialty Editor for the Project Planning and Design area.

The second promotion is for Dr. SangHyun Lee as the Specialty Editor for the Project Planning and Design area. Dr. Lee is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he leads the Dynamic Project Management Group. Before joining the University of Michigan in September 2010, he was an assistant professor at the University of Alberta, Canada, for three years. He received both his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from MIT. Dr. Lee has been pursuing research on the integration of computer simulation (e.g., system dynamics, discrete event simulation, and agent-based modeling) and real-time sensing (e.g., computer vision) to contribute to project planning, design, and control. He is particularly interested in understanding human behavior using these methods to improve productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Construction Industry Institute, Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, among others. Currently, he is the vice chair of the ASCE Construction Research Council, as well as the vice chair of the ASCE Visualization, Information Modeling, and Simulation Committee. Prior to this promotion, he was Assistant Specialty Editor for the Information Technologies area.