2022
5-2022 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi for being awarded the Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Research (Research Faculty) from the Georgia Tech College of Engineering for research on “the complexities of human-infrastructure dynamics in cities, in addition to how changing climate and advances in technology drive social and economic changes.”
5-2022 – Congratulations to Christin Salley who was named a full GEM Fellow (i.e., Employer Fellow) at Georgia Tech through The National GEM Consortium! Christin will be interning this summer at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab as part of her fellowship.
4-2022 – Congratulations to John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi for being awarded a $100,000 Georgia Smart Communities Alumni Award to work together with government and emergency management officials from Columbus, GA to investigate a community-enabled autonomous detection system for flood related river rescues.
4-2022 – Human-infrastructure interaction research on COVID-19 by Michael Thomas, Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor was highlighted in the Georgia Tech College of Engineering news in an article on “The Link Between Transit Use and Early COVID Cases.”
1-2022 – Congratulations to John Taylor for being awarded the Graduate Mentorship Award from the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering for “demonstrated excellence in mentoring graduate students.”
2021
12-2021 – John Taylor presents an International Workshop on Advances in Low Carbon and Lean Construction at the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) focused on “Smart City Digital Twins.”
11-2021 – Congratulations to Hoang Ly who was selected to receive the President’s Undergraduate Research Award! This program is sponsored by the Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and funds student salaries to conduct undergraduate research with Georgia Tech faculty and offsets travel expenses for undergraduates to present their research at professional conferences.
10-2021 – Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor present on “Decision Dynamics and ‘What If’ Scenario Prediction” with Smart City Digital Twins to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
10-2021 – Congratulations to Christin Salley for being selected to participate in the NextProf Pathfinder Workshop! She attended the workshop, hosted at the University of Michigan, which prepares participants for a successful career in academia, and offers information on what it takes to build a competitive graduate school record to obtain a faculty position in academia.
10-2021 – John Taylor presents the Data for Good Seminar at the Columbia University Data Science Institute on “Smart City Digital Twins.”
9-2021 – Congratulations to Christin Salley for being selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar. The program trains doctoral students to use discipline-based research training to shift policy, create healthier and more equitable communities, and build a #CultureofHealth.
9-2021 – Christin Salley presented a paper co-authored with Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor on “Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Framework for Fusing Georeferenced Data from Social Media and Community-Driven Applications” at the 2021 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE2021).
8-2021 – We welcome Mathias Bermeo, Xiyu Pan, and Jiajia Xie to the Lab this month! Mathias is a first-year master’s student receiving his BS in Civil Engineering and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from Purdue University. Xiyu is a first-year PhD student who received his MS in Management at Tongji University and BE in Construction Management at Chongqing University. Xiyu will contribute to the Smart Public Safety Digital Twin research project in Warner Robins. Jiajia is a first-year PhD student who received his MS in Computational Science and Engineering here at Georgia Tech and BS in Economics from Presbyterian College. Jiajia will contribute to the Georgia Department of Transportation research project “Community Augmented Rapid-response to Events (CARE) Integrated Crisis Communication System.” Welcome to the team, Mathias, Xiyu, and Jiajia!
8-2021 – Congratulations to Yuli Henao-Barragan who was selected to receive a Sloan Foundation Fellowship! This program is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and seeks to increase the number of outstanding engineering Ph.D. graduates from underrepresented populations.
8-2021 – John Taylor presents the CIRCLE Distinguished Lecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign CIRCLE (Center for Infrastructure Resilience in Cities as Livable Environments) Distinguished Lecture Series on “Smart City Digital Twins: Toward More Sustainable, Resilient, and Livable Cities.”
6-2021 – Yan Wang, John Taylor and Mike Garvin won Honorable Mention Best Paper Award from the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering for their paper on “Measuring Resilience of Human–Spatial Systems to Disasters: Framework Combining Spatial-Network Analysis and Fisher Information.”
5-2021 – Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor presented work on Smart City Digital Twins at the National Planning Conference of the American Planning Association.
5-2021 – Congratulations to Christin Salley who was selected as a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) Fellow for the 2021-22 academic year, assisting with the CEE RED National Science Foundation Grant!
4-2021 – John Taylor presents a Distinguished Lecture at the Southern Methodist University Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series on “Smart City Digital Twins: Toward More Sustainable, Resilient, and Livable Cities.”
3-2021 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor who were awarded a $115,000 Smart Public Safety Digital Twin research project in Warner Robins from the Middle Georgia Regional Council.
3-2021 – Congratulations to Christin Salley for being featured in an article for Georgia Tech’s Women’s History Month on “Breaking the Glass Ceiling”!
3-2021 – Congratulations to Lei Xu, Abby Francisco, John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi whose paper was selected as the Editor’s Choice publication in the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering!
2-2021 – Congratulations to Michael Thomas for being one of the statisticians featured in the Celebrating Black History Month article in the February 2021 issue of The American Statistical Association’s magazine, Amstat News!
1-2021 – John Taylor, Neda Mohammadi, and Gisele Bennett lead a Minitrack on Smart Building, Smart Community, and Smart City Digital Twins at the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (hicss.hawaii.edu).
2020
12-2020 – Neda Mohammadi presented a paper co-authored with John Taylor on “Human-Infrastructure Interactional Dynamics: Simulating COVID-19 Pandemic Regime Shifts” at the 2020 Winter Simulation Conference.
12-2020 – Yuli Henao presented a paper co-authored with Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor on “Mobile Application Driven Diffusion of Energy Saving Practices from Non-Residential to Residential Buildings” at the 12th International Conference on Applied Energy.
11-2020 – Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor work with the American Planning Association to publish a PAS QuickNotes series feature on Smart City Digital Twins.
10-2020 – Christin Salley was elected as Chairperson of the Student Council for the Bill Anderson Fund, an organization whose mission is to expand the number of historically underrepresented professionals in the field of hazard and disaster research and practice.
10-2020 – Congratulations to Chel Samuels who was hired as a Global Security Analyst at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab!
9-2020 – Congratulations to John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi who presented the final research findings of the Georgia Smart Communities Challenge “SMART Uptown Columbus” project together with government officials from Columbus, GA. This project developed and deployed a smart city digital twin of the Uptown area of Columbus to improve community engagement and public safety.
9-2020 – Michael Thomas served as Co-Chair of StatFest 2020, an American Statistical Association conference focused on encouraging underrepresented students to pursue careers in statistics and data science.
9-2020 – Congratulations to Yuli Henao who was selected to receive the CEE Georgia Power Graduate Research Fellowship!
9-2020 – Congratulations to John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi who received a Georgia Department of Transportation grant entitled “Community Augmented Rapid-response to Events (CARE) Integrated Crisis Communication System.” This $300,000 in funding will help establish a crisis rapid-response communication system, which is augmented with location-specific social and community data, and integrated with current Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) crisis identification and response communication processes.
8-2020 – Congratulations to Christin Salley who was named a GEM Associate Fellow at Georgia Tech through The National GEM Consortium! The National GEM Consortium is a large network that seeks to increase student success of underrepresented groups at the graduate level in engineering and science through financial support and expert knowledge.
8-2020 – Congratulations to John Taylor who was elected to the National Academy of Construction! This election to the academy is reserved for exceptional leaders representing all sectors of the built environment who have made a significant impact on the engineering and construction industry.
8-2020 – We welcome Christin Salley and Michael Thomas to the Lab this month! Christin received her MSE in Civil Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University and Michael received his MS in Biostatistics from Drexel University. Christin is the recipient of the Tai Graduate Fellowship in CEE and will contribute to the new Georgia Department of Transportation research project “Community Augmented Rapid-response to Events (CARE) Integrated Crisis Communication System.” Michael is the recipient of the Georgia Tech President’s Fellowship and the Tutwiller Graduate Fellowship in CEE. Michael will contribute to the National Science Foundation BI5M project to understand how smart city data can improve our understanding of and reduce the spread of COVID-19. Congratulations on your Fellowships and welcome to the team, Christin and Michael!
5-2020 – Sustainability research by John Taylor was highlighted in a Georgia Tech College of Engineering “We are Engineers” magazine article on “Engineering with the Earth in Mind.”
5-2020 – Congratulations to Chel Samuels who successfully defended her PhD dissertation!! Chel hopes to use her findings regarding data gaps and vulnerable populations during the PhD as a springboard into emergency management and emergency management policy research. She is currently pursuing positions in both government and industries that assist with disaster response and recovery.
5-2020 – The Network Dynamics Lab produced a short animated video that explains in layman’s terms what a Smart City Digital Twin is, and it’s many applications to improve the sustainability, resilience, equity, and livability of our cities.
4-2020 – Congratulations to Chel Samuels, Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor for completing and publishing the final report for the Georgia Department of Transportation grant entitled “Social Media-Informed Urban Crisis Detection.”
4-2020 – Congratulations to Abby Francisco who successfully defended her PhD dissertation!! Abby accepted a full-time position at Elevate Energy in Chicago as a Project Manager in the New Markets team! She will be working in the affordable multifamily housing sector to support building owners’ efforts to reduce energy use and evaluate new technologies for energy management.
4-2020 – Research by Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor was featured in Georgia Tech’s Daily Digest. The article focuses on recent developments on the Georgia Smart Communities project to develop a Smart City Digital Twin of Uptown Columbus in collaboration with the City of Columbus, GA.
3-2020 – A Festschrift special issue in honor of Professor Raymond Levitt of Stanford University was Guest Edited by Amy Javernick-Will, Ashwin Mahalingam, and John Taylor and published in the Construction Management and Economics. Their article “Ray Levitt: Professor, Practitioner and Pathfinder” provides an overview of Professor Levitt’s wide-ranging contributions to knowledge over his career.
3-2020 – Congratulations to Lab members Abby Francisco, Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor for having their recently published article on “Smart City Digital Twin-enabled Energy Management” in the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering highlighted in the March 26, 2020 ASCE SmartBrief!
3-2020 – Congratulations to Yulizza Henao-Barragan for be selected to receive the 2019-2020 Hispanic Scholarship Fund Scholarship!
2-2020 – Congratulations to Lei Xu who is accepted a Summer 2020 internship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab working on urban analytics and simulation, as well as occupant behavior analytics!
1-2020 – Members of the Network Dynamics research team collaborate on the successful installation of Array of Things multi-sensor nodes in Uptown Columbus to begin the process of developing a smart city digital twin of Uptown Columbus, GA as part of the Georgia Smart Program!
1-2020 – We welcome Dimitri Mavrokapnidis and Yuli Henao-Barragan to the lab this month! Dimitri recently received his MS in Smart Buildings and Digital Engineering at University College London and Yuli received her MS in Building Construction at Georgia Tech. They will be contributing to the Georgia Smart “SMART Uptown Columbus” and National Science Foundation “Building Information, Inhabitant, Interaction and Intelligent Integrated Modeling” projects. Welcome to the team, Dimitri and Yuli!
1-2020 – Neda Mohammadi presented a paper on “Knowledge Discovery in Smart City Digital Twins” at the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science.
2019
12-2019 – Rachel Samuels presented a paper on “The Impact of Geographic Scale on Identifying Different Social Media Behavior Extremes in Crisis Research” at the Winter Simulation Conference in Washington, D.C.
12-2019 – John Taylor presents an overview of the Lab’s smart city digital twin research, with an emphasis on energy management for urban sustainability, at the Energy Systems Seminar at Cornell University.
12-2019 – John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi present an overview of the Lab’s smart city digital twins research, with a focus on plans to develop a smart city digital twin of the Uptown area of Columbus, GA, at a public outreach event in Columbus, GA involving the Mayor of Columbus and other public officials and business leaders.
12-2019 – Lei Xu finished training to become a peer coach in the Counseling Center at Georgia Tech and is ready to help.
11-2019 – Neda Mohammadi presented research on “A Missing Link between Urban Mobility and Wellbeing” at the ACM BuildSys Conference in New York, NY hosted by Columbia University.
11-2019 – John Taylor and the Network Dynamics Lab’s Smart City Digital Twin research were highlighted in an Arup report on “Digital Twin: Towards a Meaningful Framework.”
11-2019 – Neda Mohammadi presented research on “IoT Integration of Infrastructure Systems in Smart Cities: The Impact of Interdependencies in Building Energy Systems” at the ASCE Sustainable Infrastructure Conference in Los Angeles, CA.
11-2019 – John Taylor serves as a presenter and panelist at the Georgia Tech TechBlitz competition which focused on using virtual reality to improve productivity and workforce performance.
10-2019 – Congratulations to John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi who received a Georgia Smart Communities Challenge grant entitled “SMART Uptown Columbus” together with government officials in Columbus, GA to develop and deploy a smart city digital twin of the Uptown area of Columbus to improve community engagement and public safety.
10-2019 – The Network Dynamics Lab’s Smart City Digital Twin research and details of the recently National Science Foundation workshop we hosted were featured in an Engineering News Record article on “Think Tank Envisions Uses for Municipal-Scale Digital Twins.”
10-2019 – The Network Dynamics Lab was pleased to welcome for a tour of our Lab and to present our Smart City Digital Twins research to the Atlanta Commissioner of Transportation, Josh Rowan, and other members of his team from the City of Atlanta.
10-2019 – During the new Georgia Tech Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design’s building opening, the Lab was well represented. John Taylor led a panel on “Advancing the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and Education for Sustainable Development at Georgia Tech and Across the Greater Atlanta Region.” Additionally, Lab members Abby Francisco, Ritesh Malpani, and John Taylor demonstrated the Lab’s augmented reality mobile application prototype for building operations. This application aims to give occupants feedback on how well building occupants are sorting trash, recycling, and compost into their respective waste receptacle bins.
9-2019 – Analyst report predicts 500 cities will have smart city digital twins by 2025. It is exciting to see this much potential impact in such a short period of time by research emerging from the Lab. The concept of smart city digital twins emerged only two years ago in a paper by Lab members Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor.
9-2019 – The Network Dynamics Lab, in conjunction with the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Georgia Tech Smart Cities & Inclusive Innovation initiative, helped develop and host a National Science Foundation Smart City Digital Twin Convergence Workshop. The workshop brought leading thinkers from industry, academia, government and national labs from across the country together to develop a framework for building and utilizing Smart City Digital Twins to enhance the sustainability, resilience, equity, and livability of cities.
8-2019 – The Network Dynamics Lab was pleased to welcome for a tour of our Lab and to present our Smart City Digital Twins research to the incoming President of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Kancheepuram Gunalan, and other ASCE leaders during their visit.
8-2019 – The Network Dynamics Lab moves to the Coda Building, which was designed to serve as the pinnacle of innovation for Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square. The facility combines creative workplace design with cutting-edge research labs, comfortable communal spaces, industry event space, as well as unique retail concepts and restaurants. Coda is a first-of-its-kind offering new opportunities for researchers and research neighborhoods to collaborate. This vibrant part of Midtown Atlanta is home to a mix of businesses, partners, and Georgia Tech community members.
8-2019 – John Taylor presents an overview of the Lab’s smart city digital twin research at a NASA Smart Cities Technical Interchange Workshop.
7-2019 – John Taylor presents on “Smart City Digital Twins: Virtual Building Blocks for Smarter Cities” at the Building Blocks for Smarter Cities Workshop in Arlington, VA hosted by Virginia Tech and Northeastern University.
7-2019 – John Taylor selected as the Associate Chair for Graduate Programs and Research Innovation in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech.
7-2019 – Abby Francisco presented a paper on “Understanding Community-Scale Energy Feedback: User Testing of a Mobile Application” at the Engineering Project Organizations Conference in Vail, Colorado.
6-2019 – Lei Xu presented a paper on “Development of a Virtual Reality Integrated Community-scale Eco-Feedback System” at the ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering in Atlanta.
6-2019 – Rachel Samuels presented a paper on “Understanding the Demographic Representation of Social Signals in Crisis” at the ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering in Atlanta.
5-2019 – Congratulations to John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi who received a Georgia Department of Transportation grant entitled “Social Media-Informed Urban Crisis Detection.” This $99,998 in funding will enable the development of the underlying processes and an initial platform for using social media to monitor the safety of the state highway system.
5-2019 – The Network Dynamics Lab was pleased to host British Members of Parliament (MP) for a discussion and demonstration of smart city digital twins during their visit to Atlanta.
5-2019 – Congratulations to John Taylor for being inducted into the Global Leadership Forum for Construction Engineering and Management at the June 2019 meeting in Huddersfield, England.
5-2019 – John Taylor presents on “Human Building Interactions Mediated through Smart City Digital Twins” at the Human Building Interactions National Science Foundation Workshop in Los Angeles, CA hosted by the University of Southern California.
5-2019 – The Network Dynamics Lab was pleased to host a Research in Action session on Smart City Digital Twins at the Smart City Infrastructure Dialogue held at Georgia Tech. We thank Professors Michael Hunter (Civil and Environmental Engineering), Subhro Guhathakurta (City and Regional Planning), and Tarek Rakh (Architecture) for participating and sharing their smart city digital twin research efforts.
5-2019 – Congratulations to John Taylor and Debra Lam of Georgia Tech, and Patricia Culligan of Columbia University, Rishee Jain of Stanford University, and Sybil Derrible of the University of Illinois (Chicago) who received a National Science Foundation workshop grant (#1929928) entitled “Smart City Digital Twins Convergence.” This $49,213 in funding will enable the development of an initial framework for understanding and comparing smart city digital twin platforms across cities.
4-2019 – Abby Francisco presented research on “Engaging Citizens through Community Energy Feedback: Development and User Testing” at the Engineering Sustainability Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
4-2019 – The Network Dynamics Lab was pleased to collaborate with Microsoft and present and demonstrate our research at a RIOT public outreach event on “Exploring IoT Interventions in Smart City Digital Twins” at which Lab members John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi were featured presenters.
2-2019 – John Taylor selected as a United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Fellow to work with the Greater Atlanta Regional Center of Expertise (RCE) on implementing the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals in research, teaching, and industry outreach at Georgia Tech.
1-2019 – Congratulations to John Taylor who was awarded a Guest Professorship at Tongji Univeristy for a 3-year period.
1-2019 – Neda Mohammadi presented a paper on “Devising a Game Theoretic Approach to Enable Smart City Digital Twin Analytics” at the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science.
2018
12-2018 – John Taylor was invited to present on “Digital Twins for Installations” at The Pentagon (U.S. Department of Defense) in Washington, DC.
12-2018 – The Network Dynamics Lab releases an Engineering Smart Cities podcast series on; (1) Sustainability Challenges in Cities, (2) the tension between “Smart” and “Sustainable” Cities, and (3) Starting a “Smart” Solutions Venture.
11-2018 – Congratulations to John Taylor and Ying Zhang who received a National Science Foundation grant on “CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Building Information, Inhabitant, Interaction and Intelligent Integrated Modeling BI5M.” This $479,932 in funding will enable the development of a human-in-the-loop digital twin for built environment infrastructure at the intersection between comfort, efficiency and productivity.
11-2018 – The Network Dynamics Lab, in conjunction with Georgia Tech Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation, co-hosted a Smart City Digital Twin Summit in Atlanta. This workshop showcased current efforts in building city-scale digital twins and attracted about 80 faculty and researchers.
10-2018 – Neda Mohammadi presented a paper on “Exploring Future Stakeholder Feedback on Performance-based Design across the Virtuality Continuum” at the 35th CIB W78 2018 International Conference: IT in Design, Construction, and Management in Chicago.
10-2018 – Congratulations to Denise Simmons, Josh Iorio, John Taylor and Dan Li whose paper was selected as the Editor’s Choice publication in the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management!
10-2018 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor who received a Center for Development and Application of Internet of Things (CDAIT) grant on “Harnessing IoT to VR-enable Smart City Digital Twins.” This $50,000 in funding will enable the new data infused virtual reality digital twin functionality for smart city development.
9-2018 – Congratulations to Ed Clarkson and John Taylor who received a $538,018 United States Department of Defense – Combating Terrorism Technology Support Office grant on “P2 Vision-Interactive Augmented Reality.”
8-2018 – Abby Francisco presented a paper on “Evaluating Temporal Shifts in City Scale Building Energy Benchmarks” and John Taylor presented a paper on an “Empirical Examination of Pro-environmental Behaviors in Traditional, Green Featured, and LEED Certified Buildings” at the 10th International Conference on Applied Energy in Hong Kong.
8-2018 – The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design website featured the Lab’s work in developing methods for obtaining crowdsourced building feedback through augmented reality, 360-degree panorama views, and virtual reality.
8-2018 – We welcome Lei Xu to the lab this month! Lei received her BS degree in Building Environment and Facilities Engineering and MS degree in Heat, Gas Supply, Ventilating and Air Conditioning Engineering at Tongji University and will be studying energy efficiency, visualization, and communities. Welcome to the team, Lei!
6-2018 – Rachel Samuels presented the Lab’s research on using social media data to identify localized crises during hurricanes on WSB-TV.
5-2018 – Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang on successfully defending her PhD thesis and on accepting a position as an Associate Professor at the University of Florida in the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience.
5-2018 – Rachel Samuels presented her research, “The Sound of Silence: Exploring How Decreases in Tweets Contribute to Local Crisis Identification”, at the 15th Annual Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management conference in Rochester, NY.
5-2018 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi who won a Future Faculty Fellowship awarded by the Georgia Tech School of Civil and Environmental Engineering!
4-2018 – Congratulations to Abby Francisco who won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her research on “Assessing, Understanding, and Improving Community-level Energy Feedback Systems”!
4-2018 – Lab members John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi, along with collaborator Gisele Bennett, Senior Vice-President for Research at Florida Institute of Technology, are Guest Editing a Special Issue for the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering on “Engineering Smarter Cities with Smart City Digital Twins”.
4-2018 – John Taylor co-organized a Tech Blitz Competition on April 10th at Georgia Tech, sponsored by the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Corporate Affiliates Program, that involved teams of undergraduate and graduate students working with industry mentors to innovate in the application of technology to radically improve industry productivity while simultaneously addressing workforce challenges.
4-2018 – Susie Ha brings the Lab’s virtual reality experience of the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design to the Georgia Tech Earth Day Festival in a booth hosted by Georgia Tech Facilities.
3-2018 – Neda Mohammadi presented at the GVU Seminar Series on Thursday, March 8th at Georgia Tech. Her presentation was part of the series on the GVU 2017-2018 Research and Engagement Grants, and she presented on “Smart City Digital Twins: Towards Citizen-Centric City Infrastructure IoT.”
3-2018 – Lab members John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi were selected along with Gisele Bennett, Senior Vice-President for Research at Florida Institute of Technology, to create and moderate a Mini-Track at the 2019 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-52). The Mini-Track, titled Smart City Digital Twins, is part of the Decision Analytics, Mobile Services, and Service Science track.
2-2018 – John Taylor made a Keynote presentation on “Engineering Smart Cities: From Smart Buildings to Smart City Digital Twins” at the 2018 Stanford University Digital Cities Summit.
2-2018 – Susie Ha and Neda Mohammadi host the Living Building Equity Champions for a Virtual and Augmented Reality tour of the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design.
2-2018 – John Taylor made a Distinguished Speaker presentation on “Engineering Smart Cities: Integrating IoT into Smart City Digital Twins” in the Smart Cities and Nations track at the 2018 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things in Singapore.
1-2018 – Lab research on the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design, the first Living Building to be constructed in the Southeast of the United States, was featured in a Georgia Tech video about the building.
1-2018 – Congratulations to John Taylor who was selected for Level 1 Affiliate Funding by the Center for Serve-Learn-Sustain at Georgia Tech.
2017
12-2017 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor who were each selected for Outstanding Teaching Student Choice Awards from the Georgia Tech Serve-Learn-Sustain Program. This award was based on student nominations from their new Smart and Sustainable Cities course taught for the first time in Fall 2017.
11-2017 – The Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design was launched on November 3, 2017. Lab members Abbie Francisco, Neda Mohammadi, and John Taylor demonstrated the Lab’s augmented reality and virtual reality tools to help launch participants experience the design for what will be the largest Living Building Challenge 3.1-certified facility in the Southeast.
10-2017 – Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor presented “Significance of Scale in Spatial Dependencies of Urban Human Mobility and Energy Use: A Decision-Making Perspective” at the ASCE International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017 in New York City. This presentation explored the relationship between human mobility and energy use at varying spatial scales.
10-2017 – Neda Mohammadi hosted a tour of the Network Dynamics Lab for the Serve-Learn-Sustain Fellows program, which is aligned with the NSF Smart Cities Initiative. The tour included a demonstration of the Lab’s augmented reality and virtual reality experiences of the Georgia Tech Living Building.
10-2017 – Neda Mohammadi attended MIT’s Rising Stars Workshop and presented her research on “Urban Spatiotemporal Flux”. This two-day workshop was designed to enable scientific interactions and pave the way for future cooperation among the up and coming brightest minds in civil engineering.
10-2017 – Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor presented “Engineering Smart Cities, One Living Building at a Time” at Design Engineering courses offered at a greater Atlanta middle school. In this K-12 outreach, the Network Dynamics Lab team shared the augmented and virtual reality projects associated with the Georgia Tech Living Building and discussed the benefits and challenges of the evolution to “smart” cities.
10-2017 – Congratulations to John Taylor, Yan Wang and Neda Mohammadi who received a National Science Foundation grant on “Discovering Crises within Crises – Real-Time Detection, Tracking and Visualization of Emergent Crises in Hurricanes.” This $187,739 in funding will enable the development of better methods of information and aid distribution to the individual and localized crises that arise during major disasters.
9-2017 – John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi presented in Atlanta City Hall on “Toward Reality-Virtuality Integrated Smart Cities” as part of the 2017 Smart Cities Speaker Series.
9-2017 – John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi presented on “Engineering Smart Cities: From Living Buildings to Living Communities to Living Cities” at the Urban Land Institute’s Technology/Innovation Conference in Atlanta.
9-2017 – John Taylor, Neda Mohammadi, and Abby Francisco presented the Lab’s research on changing how we model and visualize cities at the Experience SmartATL public technology showcase at Ponce City Market in Atlanta. Their presentation included the opportunity for Atlantans to experience the current design for the Georgia Tech Living Building through virtual reality and 360 degree panoramas and to use virtual reality to see the and compare the energy use of about 80 Atlanta buildings over a three year period.
9-2017 – John Taylor joins the Faculty Advisory Council of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech.
9-2017 – John Taylor co-leads a National Science Foundation Workshop on “Envisioning Future Cities: From Science Fiction to Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Urban Systems” in Brooklyn, NY.
8-2017 – Abby Francisco presents her co-authored paper on a “Method for Visualizing Energy Use in BIM” at the International Conference on Applied Energy in Cardiff, Wales.
8-2017 – Congratulations to Chel Samuels who was selected to receive a Georgia Tech President’s Fellowship! This is a huge honor…congrats Chel!!!
8-2017 – The Network Dynamics Lab hosts representatives from the Kendeda Fund where we showcased our virtual and augmented reality applications associated with the Living Building project.
8-2017 – Neda Mohammadi, John Taylor and Gisele Bennett awarded a GVU Center grant on “Citizen-centric City Infrastructure IoT.
8-2017 – We welcome two new PhD students to the Lab: Susie Ha and Chel Samuels join the Network Dynamics Lab this month! Susie received her BS and MS from Yonsei University in South Korea and she will be conducting research in the broad area of urban resilience. Chel double-majored in Geology and Business Administration at Washington and Lee University in her undergraduate studies and will be researching at the intersection of policy, industry and society to understand diffusion processes related to sustainability and resilience. Welcome to the team Susie and Chel!!!
7-2017 – The Network Dynamics Lab hosts executives from MBP and Archer Western where we showcased our smart cities research.
7-2017 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi who was selected as an MIT Rising Star! She is invited to attend MIT’s 2017 Rising Stars program this Fall.
7-2017 – On-going research to develop augmented and virtual reality applications for smart and sustainable cities conducted in the Lab is highlighted in a Kendeda Fund blog.
7-2017 – The Network Dynamics Lab hosts executives from Skanska where we showcased our virtual and augmented reality research.
7-2017 – We welcome Sena Soysal to the Network Dynamics Lab this month! Sena is a visiting student from Bogazici University in Turkey. She will be contributing to the Living Building Community Crowdsourcing grant to study how the form of representation can impact a community’s ability to provide relevant feedback on a design project. Welcome to the team Sena!
6-2017 – John Taylor and Neda Mohammadi, together with Paul Chinowsky (University of Colorado at Boulder) and Jessica Kaminsky (University of Washington Seattle), organized a “Future Faculty 5K” Workshop to a group of advanced PhD students interested in faculty careers at the 2017 Engineering Project Organization Conference.
6-2017 – Smart cities research conducted in the Lab is highlighted in a Georgia Tech Research Horizons article on Smart Cities: Innovative Approaches Combining Engineering, Technology, and the Social Sciences are Boosting the Urban IQ.
5-2017 – John Taylor, Gisele Bennett and Neda Mohammadi present a framework for “A Mixed Reality Data-Infused Platform for Contextualized City Infrastructure Analytics” at the Spring 2017 Digital Building Lab Annual Meeting.
5-2017 – John Taylor, Neda Mohammadi and Alissa Kingsley (of Lord Aeck Sargent Architects and Designers) awarded a Georgia Tech Living Building research grant on “Living Building Community Crowdsourcing: Developing an Interactive Augmented Reality Viewer to Capture Community Feedback”.
5-2017 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi who was selected as a Serve-Learn-Sustain Energy Systems for Sustainable Communities Fellow! Congratulations Neda on this acknowledgment of your important work in the area of urban sustainability!!!
5-2017 – We welcome Sean Flanagan to the Network Dynamics Lab this month! Sean will be contributing to the Living Building Community Crowdsourcing grant to enable augmented and virtual reality visualization of the Living Building being designed for Georgia Tech’s campus. Sean is an undergraduate student majoring in Computational Media in the College of Computing. Welcome to the team Sean!
5-2017 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi and Ardalan Khosrowpour who both graduated with PhD degrees and were hooded at the Virginia Tech graduation ceremony this month!
4-2017 – Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor awarded a Serve-Learn-Sustain “Smart Citizen Engagement: Toward a Living Campus” grant.
4-2017 – John Taylor selected to participate in the Office of the Provost Emerging Leaders Program 2017-2018.
3-2017 – Congratulations to Abby Francisco who was selected to receive a Georgia Tech President’s Fellowship! This is a tremendous honor…congratulations Abby!!!
3-2017 – John Taylor presents an overview of the Lab’s building-occupant network dynamics research in the SETChange Seminar at Carnegie Mellon University.
2-2017 – We welcome Yunhe Song and Douglas Cheong to the Network Dynamics Lab this month! Both Yunhe and Douglas will be contributing to the IPaT Smart and Connected Communities Data Pilot grant to enable the visualization of urban scale resource consumption data in the CyberGRID. Yunhe is an MS student majoring in Computational Science and Engineering and Douglas is an undergraduate student majoring in Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Welcome to the team Yunhe and Douglas!
1-2017 – This month the Network Dynamics Lab launches a new course on Virtually Remaking Cities at Georgia Tech. Graduate students in the course this semester will collaborate in virtual teams with students at Virginia Tech, Washington State University, and Bogazici University (in Turkey) to propose and analyze an energy efficiency retrofit of the historic Biltmore Building in Atlanta. To enable this, we created a virtual version of the City of Atlanta in the CyberGRID!
1-2017 – Neda Mohammadi and John Taylor awarded an Institute for People and Technology – Smart and Connected Communities Data Pilot grant on “Toward Reality-Virtuality Integrated Smart Cities: Understanding Urban Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Human Interactions through a Reality Data-rich Virtual Atlanta.”
1-2017 – We welcome Abby Francisco to the Network Dynamics Lab this month! Abby completed her undergraduate studies at Clemson University in Civil and Environmental Engineering and has been working at the Southface Energy Institute for the past several years. She joins Georgia Tech as a PhD student contributing to the NSF CAREER project to understand and improve energy visualization in cities. Welcome to the team Abby!
2016
12-2016 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi who graduated with her PhD degree and accepted a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Georgia Tech! We are excited that Dr. Mohammadi will continue to work in the Lab to expand her studies of urban spatio-temporal fluctuations to understand and improve urban sustainability and resilience!
12-2016 – Congratulations to Adrienne Hill and Tyler Beach who both graduated with MS degrees this month!
11-2016 – John Taylor selected as a 2016-2017 Smart Cities, Connected Communities Fellow by the Georgia Tech Serve-Learn-Sustain Program.
11-2016 – John Taylor presents in Urban Sustainability panel at the Georgia Tech Smart Cities Faculty Summit.
11-2016 – New Georgia Tech Network Dynamics Lab website launched, including announcement for an open Post-doctoral Fellow position and multiple PhD openings.
10-2016 – The Civil Engineering Network Dynamics Lab expands its focus becoming the Network Dynamics Lab at Georgia Tech with a broader focus on engineering change across a range of dynamic phenomena occurring from the building to the urban scale.
9-2016 – John Taylor joins the Faculty Council for Smart Cities at Georgia Tech.
9-2016 – John Taylor awarded a Program Innovation Grant from the Georgia Tech Office of the Provost to enable cross-national team projects in a new course on Remaking Cities.
8-2016 – Thank you to Dr. Yongkui Li, Professor and Assistant Dean at the Research Institute of Complex Engineering & Management at Tongji University, who visited and presented in the Network Dynamics Lab at Georgia Tech!
8-2016 – John Taylor selected to become the Frederick Law Olmsted endowed professor by the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. The Civil Engineering Network Dynamics Lab moves south to Georgia!
8-2016 – Congratulations to Yilong Han who graduated with his PhD degree and accepted a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the School of Design and Environment at the National University of Singapore to expand his studies of inter-building effect to personality-based building energy management!
8-2016 – Reginald DesRoches, Kari Watkins, Kevin Caravati and John Taylor awarded a 1 year $200,000 grant from the Speedwell Foundation on “Public-Private Investment in Public-Space-Enabled Infrastructure.”
8-2016 – Congratulations to Ardalan Khosrowpour who graduated with his PhD degree and accepted a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Cornell University in the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Innovation Institute!
7-2016 – Congratulations to Rishee Jain who accepted an Assistant Professor faculty position at Stanford University! Rishee was an undergraduate researcher in the Lab and did his MS and PhD in the Lab. After his PhD he received an NSF SEES Postdoctoral Fellowship and completed postdoctoral fellowships at NYU and Stanford. We are very excited for Rishee to start this next chapter in his academic career!
6-2016 – Congratulations to Qi “Ryan” Wang who accepted an Assistant Professor faculty position at Northeastern University! Ryan completed his PhD working in the Lab. After his PhD Ryan completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University studying human mobility in Boston. We are very excited for Ryan and his family!
5-2016 – John Taylor awarded Certificate of Teaching Excellence Award from the Virginia Tech College of Engineering.
5-2016 – Congratulations to Max O’Krepki for winning a Graduate Fellowship to Stanford University! Max was an undergraduate researcher in the Lab studying ways to maximize the performance of virtual teams.
5-2016 – Harpreet Dillon and John Taylor awarded a 2 year $120,000 Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science grant on “CrowdWireless: Crowdsourcing-Based Content-Centric Design for Wireless Networks.”
5-2016 – Congratulations to Pauli Alin who accepted an Assistant Professor faculty position at Utah Valley University! Pauli visited the Lab as a PhD student and later as a postdoc while he was studying at the Helsinki University of Technology. Congratulations to Pauli and his family on this important career move!
5-2016 – Congratulations to Sam Ferrara, Hanh Truong and Miranda Tuell who graduated with their MS degrees, and to Max O’Krepki who graduated with his BS degree this month!
5-2016 – Congratulations to Yilong Han for winning a CMAA National Capital Chapter Scholarship!
4-2016 – Congratulations to Andrei Villarroel who was appointed Professor in the School of Management at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland! Andrei was the first PhD student in the Lab and he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT following the completion of his PhD. We are excited for Andrei to take on this next great academic adventure!
4-2016 – John Taylor, Ardalan Khosrowpour and Gabriel Peschiera awarded a $50,000 National Science Foundation I-CORPS grant on “Conceptualizing and Validating an Occupant-aware Predictive Control System.”
4-2016 – Congratulations to Sam Ferrara and Adrienne Hill who shared the 2016 Outstanding VCEMP Graduate Student Award by Virginia Tech!
1-2016 – Jiayu Chen and John Taylor awarded the Journal of Management in Engineering’s 2015 Best Peer-Reviewed Paper Honorable Mention Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
2015
11-2015 – John L. Tishman Distinguished Lecture at the University of Michigan presented by John Taylor.
10-2015 – John Taylor receives Daniel W. Halpin Award at the ASCE Annual Conference in New York City.
9-2015 – We welcome Prof. Yongkui Li as a Visiting Faculty member for the 2015-2016 academic year! Prof. Li is an Associate Professor at Tongji University and the Assistant Dean of the Research Institute of Complex Project Management in Shanghai, China. His research focuses on mega-project management and he is collaborating in the Lab on the application of network analysis to complex, mega-project management studies. Welcome Prof. Li!
9-2015 – We welcome Tyler Beach to the Civil Engineering Network Dynamics Lab this month! Tyler completed his undergraduate studies at Virginia Tech and returns to Virginia Tech for his MS having been awarded a Myers-Lawson School of Construction graduate research assistantship to work with the Workforce Challenges Community of Practice. Welcome to the team Tyler!
8-2015 – We welcome Adrienne Hill, Yan Wang, Sam Ferrara and Paige Emanivong who joined the Civil Engineering Network Dynamics Lab this month! Paige completed undergraduate research in the Lab as a Virginia Tech undergrad. Paige and Sam join us with Master’s level Via Fellowships from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Paige and Adrienne join us as New Horizon Graduate Scholar awardees. And Yan joins the Lab as a BioBuild PhD Fellow. We are excited to welcome this dynamic, award-winning group to the Lab!
7-2015 – Congratulations to Josh Iorio who was selected as the new Assistant Director of the Myers-Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech! Josh held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Lab for several years after he completed his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. We are so excited for Josh and his family!
6-2015 – John Taylor presents keynote lecture at the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering’s International Construction Specialty Conference in Vancouver entitled: “Le Fil Rouge: Exploring Dynamics at the Intersection between Human and Engineered Networks.”
6-2015 – Josh Iorio selected to join Kiewit’s Faculty Advisory Board to investigate effective models of industry/faculty/student collaboration to better prepare students for careers in industry and better support faculty research initiatives that impact industrial practice.
6-2015 – John Taylor named the Preston and Catharine White Fellow by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
5-2015 – Congratulations to Ryan Wang who graduated with his PhD this month and accepted a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Harvard University in the Department of Sociology and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study!
5-2015 – Congratulations to Semra Comu who was awarded the 2015 Outstanding VCEMP Young Alumna Award by Virginia Tech!
5-2015 – Congratulations to Ryan Wang who was awarded the 2015 Outstanding VCEMP PhD Student Award by Virginia Tech!
4-2015 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi for winning a CMAA National Capital Scholarship!
3-2015 – Congratulations to Ardalan Khosrowpour for winning a 2015 ThinkSwiss Scholarship from the Swiss government to spend the summer doing research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich!
2-2015 – Congratulations to Paige Emanivong who was awarded a Virginia Tech Via MS Fellowship! Paige will begin her MS research on infrastructure system failures and human mobility during natural disasters this summer.
1-2015 – Congratulations to Ryan Wang who was awarded a Via PhD Teaching Fellowship! He will instruct an undergraduate section of the course CEE 3014: Construction Project Management.
2014
11-2014 – Congratulations to Ardalan Khosrowpour for winning a Stanford Precourt Energy Efficiency Center Scholarship to attend the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference in Washington, DC!
11-2014 – Atlantic Monthly reporter Laura Bliss interviewed John Taylor and Ryan Wang and published an article entitled: “Predicting Travel Patterns in Future Disasters” on the Atlantic Monthly’s CityLab website. The interview was related to their recently published article in PLOS One entitled: “Quantifying Human Mobility Perturbation and Resilience in Hurricane Sandy.”
8-2014 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi who was just awarded a Vecellio Graduate Fellowship from Virginia Tech for her academic performance and leadership!
7-2014 – Congratulations to Rishee Jain who was just awarded a National Science Foundation SEES Postdoctoral Fellowship of over $500,000 entitled “SEES Fellows: Building Informatics: Utilizing Data-Driven Methodologies to Enable Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Planning of Urban Building Systems”!
6-2014 – Congratulations to Rimas Gulbinas who accepted a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Cornell University in the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Innovation Institute!
6-2014 – Congratulations to Anna-Laura Pisello who accepted an Assistant Professor faculty position at the University of Perugia! Anna-Laura visited the Lab as a PhD student and later as a postdoc while she was studying at the University of Perugia. Congratulations to Anna-Laura on this important and well-deserved milestone in her academic career!
5-2014 – Congratulations to Neda Mohammadi for winning the 2014 Outstanding VCEMP Graduate Student Award!
5-2014 – John Taylor awarded G. V. Loganathan Teaching Award for Excellence in Civil Engineering Education.
5-2014 – Congratulations to Yilong Han for winning a 3rd Place Best Poster Award at the ASCE Construction Research Congress 2014 in Atlanta for his poster entitled “A Bio-inspired Solution to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effects”!
4-2014 – John Taylor and Amy Javernick-Will selected to receive 2 year Construction Industry Institute grant on “Utilizing Next-Gen Experience to Maximize Virtual Team Performance”.
4-2014 – Congratulations to Ardalan Khosrowpour for winning the 3rd Place Best Poster Award in the graduate student category at the Virginia Tech 2014 CEE Poster Day for his poster entitled “Quantifying and Targeting Inefficient Energy-Use in Commercial Buildings”!
3-2014 – Ted Halley awarded Outstanding Master’s Student Award by the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business. Ted is a dual-degree MS-MBA student in the Lab.
3-2014 – John Taylor awarded Favorite Faculty Award by Virginia Tech Division of Student Affairs in recognition of positive impact on students (as voted by students).
1-2014 – Ardalan Khosrowpour joins the Civil Engineering Network Dynamics Lab with both a PhD Via Fellowship from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an MLSoC Doctoral Assistantship from the Myers-Lawson School of Construction. Ardalan is joining the NSF CAREER Building Occupant Network Dynamics project.
2013
10-2013 – Congratulations to Dr. Rishee Jain who accepted the Director’s Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in the Center for Urban Science+Progress at New York University!
9-2013 – Congratulations to Dr. Xiaoqi Xu who accepted a position as the Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the Sustainability Science Program and the Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project at Harvard University!
9-2013 – Congratulations to Dr. Semra Comu who began an Assistant Professor faculty position in the Civil Engineering Department at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey! Semra completed her MS and PhD in the Lab. We are so excited for Semra to begin her faculty career!
8-2013 – CyberGRID research highlighted in ENR magazine cover story on “Worldwide Workflow” by Debra Rubin and Tom Sawyer in the August 26, 2013 issue.
8-2013 – ENR website article entitled “Lab-Created ‘Virtual’ Workspace Mimics the Site Trailer, Except for the Noise” describes the impact the CyberGRID can have on the engineering and construction industry.
8-2013 – John Taylor awarded Distinguished Professor Award by the Construction Industry Institute (CII) at the CII Annual Conference in Orlando, FL.
7-2013 – Congratulations to Dr. Jiayu Chen who began an Assistant Professor faculty position at the City University of Hong Kong and launched the ! Jiayu completed his MS and PhD in the Lab. We are so excited for Jiayu to build his own Lab and begin his academic career!
7-2013 – John Taylor awarded Distinguished Service Award by the Engineering Project Organization Society (EPOS) at the EPOS Annual Conference in Winter Park, CO.
6-2013 – John Taylor presents CyberGRID research as “Brave New World of Today” at the Engineering News Record (ENR) Global Construction Summit in New York City.
5-2013 – Lab energy efficiency dynamics reseach highlighted in Greensource Magazine Power to the People article.
4-2013 – Congratulations to Josh Zilke for winning the 2013 Outstanding VCEMP Graduate Student Award at the MLSoC Awards Banquet on April 25th!
4-2013 – Congratulations to everyone involved in the CyberGRID research (past and present)! The CyberGRID was just awarded the 2013 XCaliber Award, a university-level award at Virginia Tech. The award citation describes the CyberGRID as “a learning environment that replicates the skills and competencies engineers need in the 21st century” and further describes that the CyberGRID “provides students with an environment for developing collaborative and innovative strategies to address distributed design problem-solving in a global context.” Many thanks to Dr. Josh Iorio, the CyberGRID guru at Virginia Tech, and the many faculty and students from Virginia Tech, Columbia University, the University of Washington (Seattle), the Helsinki University of Technology, the Indian Institute of Technology (Madras) and the University of Twente (Netherlands) that have been involved in the project since its inception.
4-2013 – Congratulations to Seung Jeong who won the 2nd place award for the graduate student category and Andy Zelkowicz who won the 2nd place award for the undergraduate student category at the Virginia Tech 2013 CEE Poster Day.
4-2013 – John Taylor awarded Virginia Tech College of Engineering 2013 Dean’s Faculty Fellow Award “in Recognition of Extraordinary Performance in Research.”
4-2013 – Rimas Gulbinas awarded National Science Foundation EAPSI Fellowship to collaborate with energy efficiency and building energy experts at Lincoln University and University of Auckland in New Zealand.
2-2013 – Rimas Gulbinas, Rishee Jain, Gregg Kelley, John Taylor and John Teeter awarded 1 year $74,960 Department of Energy – Building Innovators grant to deploy a next generation smart building social energy management platform in an office building environment.
2012
12-2012 – Civil Engineering Network Dynamics Lab’s globalization research highlighted in American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) SmartBrief Trends & Technology article on “How AEC firms become and stay globally competitive” on December 5th.
12-2012 – Congratulations to Lab researchers Semra Comu and Jiayu Chen who both graduated with their PhD degrees in December!
10-2012 – Paul Chinowsky, John Taylor and Melissa Di Marco awarded the Journal of Management in Engineering’s 2012 Best Peer-Reviewed Paper Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
10-2012 – ENR Editor-in-Chief Jan Tuchman describes CyberGRID research as one of the “Five Good Ideas for the Next Ten Years of Construction.”
9-2012 – On-going Lab research efforts on global virtual design and construction awarded a Skanska Innovation Grant.
7-2012 – Pauli Alin, John Taylor and collaborator Riitta Smeds awarded Paper of the Year Award by the Editorial Board of the Project Management Journal at the Project Management Institute’s Annual Conference in Limerick, Ireland.
1-2012 – Ryan Wang awarded Pratt Fellowship from Virginia Tech.
1-2012 – Ryan Qi Wang and Sara Horsey join the Civil Engineering Network Dynamics Lab. Ryan is joining the NSF CAREER Building Occupant Network Dynamics project and Sara is joining the CII Deploying Best Practices in Unfamiliar Countries project.
2011
12-2011 – ENR Viewpoint article authored by Robert Prieto, Senior Vice President of Fluor Corporation, underscores the importance of understanding systemic change in the industry and mentions Taylor’s research on the importance and difficulty of systemic change.
10-2011 – John Taylor and Jesus de la Garza awarded 2 year $195,549 Construction Industry Institute grant to study best practice deployment in unfamiliar countries.
10-2011 – Rishee Jain and Rimas Gulbinas awarded Stanford Precourt Institute Student Fellowships to the 2011 Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference.
9-2011 – John Taylor awarded 5 year $400,000 National Science Foundation CAREER grant to study “Building Occupant Network Dynamics: Multi-scale Experimentation and Simulation in the Built Environment to Achieve Sustained Energy Conservation.”
9-2011 – Amy Javernick-Will, Paul Chinowsky, Mark Riddle, and John Taylor awarded 3 year $399,806 National Science Foundation grant to study Global, Multi-lateral, Knowledge-sharing Communities of Practice.
8-2011 – Rimas Gulbinas joins the Civil Engineering Network Dynamics Lab to study energy use in workplaces.
7-2011 – John Taylor awarded Outstanding CII Instructor Award at Construction Industry Institute Annual Conference.
7-2011 – The Project Network Dynamics Lab moves to Virginia Tech, broadens its scope to Civil Engineering Network Dynamics of societal and industrial importance, and launches a new website.
6-2011 – Semra Comu awarded Myers-Lawson School of Construction Doctoral Assistantship.
5-2011 – Melissa di Marco graduates with a PhD on Boundary Spanning in Global Project Networks.
3-2011 – Amy Tang wins Fulbright Scholarship to study renewable energy infrastructure finance in India.
2010
10-2010 – Melissa Di Marco, John Taylor and Pauli Alin receive the 2010 Best Peer Reviewed Paper Award in the Journal of Management in Engineering at the ASCE 2010 Annual Conference.
9-2010 – Xiaoqi Xu, Rishee Jain and Amy Tang join the Project Network Dynamics Lab. Xiaoqi Xu is a recipient of the Columbia Presidential Fellowship. Rishee Jain is in the first cohort of students in the Solving Urbanization Challenges by Design IGERT program funded by the National Science Foundation. Amy completed her BS and MS at Columbia and is developing models for energy infrastructure project delivery in her PhD.
4-2010 – Hakan Unsal successfully defended his disseration on Modeling the Hold-up Problem and Absorptive Capacity of Project Networks.
3-2010 – The Project Network Dynamics Lab’s Energy Efficiency Dynamics Research is featured in a Columbia University Engineering News article.
2-2010 – Dr. Josh Iorio joins the Project Network Dynamics Lab as a post-doctoral researcher on the CyberGRID Networks project funded by the National Science Foundation.
2009
11-2009 – Melissa Di Marco, John Taylor and Pauli Alin win Best Paper Award at the LEAD 2009 Conference.
11-2009 – Gabriel Peschiera wins the $7,000 Moles 2009-2010 Scholarship.
10-2009 – John Taylor receives the Thomas Fitch Rowland Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers at the ASCE Annual Meeting in Kansas City.
9-2009 – John Taylor, Carrie Sturts-Dossick and Debra Noumair awarded a 3 year $315,584 National Science Foundation Grant to analyze virtualization of global engineering design networks.
7-2009 – Patricia Culligan, John Taylor, George Deodatis, Robert Beauregard, Elliot Sclar and Richard Plunz awarded a5 year $2,959,966 National Science Foundation Grant to study urbanization from the perspectives of adaption, resilience and ecology.
2-2009 – John Taylor is awarded a 2 year $45,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellowship for the period 2009-2011 to examine the role of boundary objects in resolving global design network conflicts.
2008
12-2008 – Morgan Whitcomb is awarded an Undergraduate Research Fellowship to examine “Social Structure and Energy Efficiency Dynamics in Dormitories.”
10-2008 – John Taylor wins Best Journal Paper Award for 2007 from the Editorial Board of the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management for “The Antecedents of Successful 3D CAD Implementation in Design and Construction Networks.”
10-2008 – Melissa Di Marco, who recently completed her MSc Degree at Columbia University, joins the Lab as a PhD research assistant to examine boundary object use across global design teams.
9-2008 – Fulbright Scholar Semra Comu joins the Project Network Dynamics Lab. Semra will contribute to the Construction Industry Institute funded research project on “Building a Successful EPC Organization.”
9-2008 – John Taylor and Co-PI John Messner are awarded a 2 year $174,514 Construction Industry Institute Grant on “Building a Successful Global EPC Organization.”
7-2008 – John Taylor and Co-PIs Jeffrey Siegel, Patricia Culligan and Richard Plunz are awarded a 1 year $31,985 Earth Institute Cross-Cutting Initiative Grant on “Coupling Technology and Organizational Dynamics to Induce Energy Efficient Behavior.”
4-2008 – John Taylor awarded Annual Industry Studies Best Paper Prize Honorable Mention by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
3-2008 – John Taylor awarded Outstanding Early Career Researcher Award Honorable Mention at the FIATECH 2008 Annual Technology Conference and Showcase.
2-2008 – John Taylor is awarded a Visiting Professorship Grant to the Helsinki University of Technology to develop global project network collaboration research and teaching.
2007
10-2007 – John Taylor is keynote presenter at the Building SMART Workshop in Helsinki, Finland presenting his views on “The Critical Interface between Technology and Management.”
9-2007 – John Taylor is awarded a 3 year $642,219 National Science Foundation Grant entitled “Intercultural Knowledge System Dynamics in Complex Services Outsourcing” involving co-PIs Sirkka Jarvenpaa and Elizabeth Keating of U.T. – Austin.
8-2007 – Hakan Unsal joins the Project Network Dynamics Lab having recently completed his master’s studies at Cornell University. Hakan’s research focuses on developing optimal technology strategies in global project networks.
6-2007 – Andrei Villarroel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and John Taylor are awarded a Best Paper Award at the NAACSOS Conference for their paper entitled “Managing Competing Communities of Practice: The Impact of Open Source and Knowledge-bridging on System-level Learning.”
5-2007 – “Aligning Innovations to Design and Construction Networks,” authored by John Taylor and Ray Levitt (Stanford University) was awarded the Beacon of Excellence Best Paper Award at the American Society of Civil Engineers 2007 Construction Research Congress.
2-2007 – Stephen Pool is awarded an Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the University of Texas at Austin to investigate digital fabrication as a boundary spanning innovation.
2006
11-2006 – John Taylor is featured presenter at the Building in the Future Symposium at Yale University’s College of Architecture.
8-2006 – John Taylor is a William H. Newman Best Paper Award Finalist at the Academy of Management 2006 Conference
6-2006 – John Taylor, Ray Levitt (Stanford University) and Andrei Villarroel (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) win the Overall Best Paper Award at the NAACSOS Conference.
