Pingbo Tang

Pingbo Tang is an associate professor in Del E. Webb School of Construction within the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University (ASU). He founded and is directing Spatiotemporal Workflows and Resilient Management Laboratory (SWARM Lab) at ASU. He obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 2002, and his master's degree in bridge engineering in 2005, both from Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He obtained his doctorate from the Advanced Infrastructure Systems group at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009. Before joining ASU in July 2012, he completed his postdoctoral training in the Mapping and GIS Lab at The Ohio State University from September 2009 to August 2010, and then worked as an assistant professor of the Civil and Construction Engineering Department at Western Michigan University from August 2010 to July 2012.

Tang’s research explores the remote sensing (e.g., LiDAR, Photogrammetry), human systems engineering, and information modeling technology (e.g., Building Information Modeling) to support spatiotemporal analyses needed for effective management of construction job sites, constructed facilities, and civil infrastructure systems. His recent research efforts examined sensing and modeling methods for comprehending the Human-Cyber-Physical-Systems (H-CPS) in accelerated construction and facility management (e.g., nuclear plant outage control). He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles in these areas. The National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Salt River Project (SRP), DPR Construction, and Phoenix Government have funded his research efforts. He holds memberships or leadership positions of several professional organizations, which include the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE, serving as the chair of the ASCE Data Sensing and Analysis committee), TRB (Committee on Bridge Management, AHD35), IABSE, ASPRS, and ASTM International (Committee E57: 3D imaging systems). He is serving as an associate editor of ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, as well as a reviewer of multiple top journals and conferences in the general area of IT and Computing in Civil and Construction Engineering. He won best paper awards on multiple top conferences (the ASCE 2017 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, the ASCE 2009 Construction Research Congress), the best poster award of Construction Industry Institute's 2011 Annual Conference, the 2013 Recent Alumnus Achievement Award of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University, and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015.