i2dEAS LAB end-of-semester party at Professor Choi's house
Junseo Bae is a Ph.D. student in Construction
Management at Texas A&M University. He earned both Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees from Hanyang University in South Korea. Before going into his doctoral study, he was involved in several significant research projects sponsored by major governmental agencies. Junseo joined the i2dEAS LAB in fall 2012. He has strong backgrounds in BIM, simulations and discrete-event modeling, statistics, and visualization. He is currently working on a spatiotemporal
analytical modeling framework that fully automates and optimizes impact
assessments of construction work zones.
Research Topic: Spatiotemporal analytical
model for automating construction work zone impact assessments
Lishan Li (Mia Li) joined the lab in spring 2013 from Qingdao Technological University in China in which she received her Bachelor’s degree in Project Management. Mia is currently pursuing a MS in Construction Management with the certificate of Business offered by May's Business School at Texas A &M University. She analyzes macro- and microeconomic characteristics of the A/E/C industry as a whole and at 14 of its sub-sectors in terms of labor productivity and gross margin. In her thesis, she's developing a cluster-driven non-linear regression model that captures firm's future profitability by analyzing various affecting factors.
Research Topic: Macro- and microeconomic analysis of key performance parameters
Prateek Tare is currently pursuing his master's degree in Construction Management at Texas A&M University. He joined the i2dEAS Lab in Fall 2012. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from IES IPS Academy in India in 2012. He has an in-depth internship experience with the Construction Industry Development Council and was involved in a multi-million mixed use township construction project under EMAAR-MGF in India. He wants to develop his career in the heavy civil industry. His thesis has focused on developing, testing and validating a new novel project prioritization algorithm for effectively allocating transportation funds.
Research Topic: Project prioritization in conjunction with innovative project delivery & contracting strategies
Nelson Han holds his BS degree in Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly University at Pomona. Before joining the lab, he was an Assistant Project Manager of a GC company for two years; mostly involved in commercial projects situated in California. His expertise includes project controls, cost estimates, submittal preparations, and project scheduling.
Research Topic: TBD
Shashank Tiwari joined the i2dEAS LAB in Spring 2012 while pursuing his MS
degree in Construction Management. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Civil
Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IITD), India. During his study at IIT in Delhi, he worked as an intern assisting project engineers involving in three different construction sites of a large-scale cable-stay bridge project. His research has centered on modeling road user costs as heterogeniously. He is a huge fan of cricket regurarly watching and playing.
Research Topic: Estimating road user costs with heterogenious values of travelers' time
Piyush Sharma is currently pursuing his Master’s degree in Construction Management at Texas A&M University. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. After completing his Bachelor’s degree, he worked as a Project Engineer with DLF Ltd, India’s biggest real estate firm, in the field of project controls for four years. He attained extensive experience both in commercial and residential projects, focused mainly on site engineering, billing, planning, and procurement aspects. After gaining an extensive hands-on experience of large-scale construction projects, he has started the second phase of his life as a graduate student researcher at Texas A&M.
Research Topic: Decision-support model for quantifying the most realistic incentives/disincentives dollar amounts 
Ankit Gaur is a graduate student majoring construction management at TAMU. He earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Jaypee University of Engineering And Technology in India. After that, having realized that the expertise in construction management would be in great demand in the India’s rapidly growing infrastructure and construction industry, he decided to study construction management in the US and bring that expertise back to India. In his study at i2dEAS LAB, he leads the project delivery initiative by exploring various innovative project delivery and alternative contracting concepts. His study investigates the effectiveness of those concepts on aspects of project performance such as schedule, cost and change.
Research Topic: Holistic approach to analyzing project performance of fast-tracked projects.
Hyunsoung Park, a graduate student majoring Construction Management at Texas A&M University, earned his Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering from Hongik University in S. Korea. He joined the i2dEAS LAB in Spring 2013. He is interested in life-cycle assessments of infrastructure construction alternatives.
Research Topic: TBD
Alumni
Yoo Hyun Kim joined the TAMU
construction management program in Fall 2010 to pursue his Master degree in the Construction Science Department. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Architectural Engineering from
Hongik University in South Korea in 1998. He has various professional experiences
as an architectural engineer, project manager and design manager with Daewoo
E&C for six years. His research was focused on developing a decision-support model for quantifying the future maintenance costs of flexible-type highway construction projects in order to help state transportation agencies perform a life-cycle cost analysis in a more viable way.
Research Topic: Life-cycle cost
analysis model for predicting future highway maintenance costs
Current position: cost control manager at Daewoo E&C, currently managing Malaysia's Public Bank Project
Parth Arora received his MS degree in August 2012 in Construction Management with a Business Administration Certificate offered by Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from BITS Pilani, India. Parth has diverse working experiences as a project controls specialist on several federally-funded projects in the United States and as a civil engineer he was involved in the Delhi Metro Rail Project, one of the biggest infrastructure projects in India.
Research Topic: Macroeconomic study of construction firm’s profitability using cluster analysis
Current position: project control engineer at AMEC in Philadelpia, PA
Zhuting Mao's research has focused on the life-cycle assessment of rigid pavement alternatives. She also worked as a Teaching Assistant, leading the labs and giving lectures to more than 150 undergraduate students under supervision of Professor Choi. She received her master degree in Construction Management in summer 2012 with the honorable Regents’ Graduate Fellowship.
Research Topic: Life-cycle assessment of highway pavement alternatives
Current position: BIM specialist at Balfour Beatty Construction in San Diego, CA
Fernando J. Manrique earned his MS degree in December 2012 and BS in Civil Engineering from Universidad Rafael Urdaneta, Maracaibo, Venezuela. After completing his Bachelor’s degree, he worked as a Field Engineer and Specialist on Project Controls in Promociones y Desarrollos MG2005, a Venezuelan real estate developing company. Fernando has a variety of construction experiences including commercial and real estate development projects.
Research Topic: Innovating contracting strategies-implications of project changes
Current position: Project Engineer at Southland Industries in Texas
Saher Zunaira, graduated in Spring 2011 and currently working in a Houton-based construction company.
Current position: to be updated