Dr. Burcu Akinci

Biography

Burcu Akinci is the Dean of the College of Engineering and a Hamerschlag University Professor specializing in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 1991, followed by an M.B.A. from Bilkent University in 1993, an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University in 1995, and a Ph.D. in the same field from Stanford in 2000. Akinci's research interests include developing modeling approaches that leverage information-rich histories of facilities and streamlining construction facility management processes. She particularly focuses on the integration of building information models, data capture, tracking technologies, 3D imaging, and embedded sensor systems to capture semantically-rich as-built histories for construction projects and facility operations. Akinci has authored over 60 referred journal publications and 80 conference publications, and has co-edited a book on CAD/GIS integration. Notably, she has graduated more than 16 Ph.D. students and 15 M.S. thesis students, and is currently advising four Ph.D. students.

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