Ioannis K. Brilakis
Assistant Professor
Building Construction Program &
School of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Computing and information technologies for the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management industries (AEC/FM). Sensing and data collection for civil infrastructure development; visual pattern recognition technologies for construction site multimedia data analysis, classification, retrieval, and processing; long range wireless networking for site/office communications; knowledge extraction and management; intelligent automation of construction tasks; infrastructure conditioning assessment, modeling, sensing, and management; integration of project information into visualization and simulation models; project control systems and field management technologies; communication, collaboration and coordination technologies.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Ioannis K. Brilakis joined the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor in January 2009. He received his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2001. He continued his studies at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, where he obtained an MS in 2002 and a PhD in 2005. After graduating from the University of Illinois, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (July 05 to December 08). Dr. Brilakis is the Director of the Construction Information Technology Laboratory (CITL), an active member of several academic and professional organizations, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, and the Elsevier Journal of Advanced Engineering Informatics.