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Robotic, Automation, and Intelligent Sensing

(RAISe) in construction

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The Robotic, Automation, and Intelligent Sensing (RAISE) Lab at The Pennsylvania State University is committed to (1) conducting cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research on automation, robotics, and sensing for construction industry and infrastructure systems management; (2) provide high-quality education to create a creative, rigorous, multidisciplinary and cross-cultural educational environment for students; and (3) offer technological advancements that can benefit the industry.

Particularly, RAISE Lab is interested in promoting safe construction sites and productive and healthy workers through interactive uses of automatic data acquisition, simulation tools, and data analysis via signal processing and machine-learning algorithms. RAISE Lab envisions safe, manageable, automated, robot-integrated, trackable, connected construction sites, built environments, and smart cities to enhance construction workers, users of infrastructure, and citizen health, productivity, and safety

TEAM

Director

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Houtan Jebelli, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor,

Architectural Engineering Department,

The Pennsylvania State University

Director of Construction Robotics, Automation, and Intelligent Sensing Lab

Bio:

Dr. Houtan Jebelli earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering – Construction Engineering and Management from University of Michigan. He received his bachelor′s degree in Civil Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University in 2012. He received an M.Sc. in Structural Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2013. Dr. Jebelli completed a second M.Sc. in Construction Engineering and Management from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2015. While pursuing his Ph.D., He received his third M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a minor in Biomedical Engineering in 2016. He has received several awards and fellowships, including the Charles M. Eastman Top Ph.D. Paper Award
two Outstanding Thesis Awards, the Rackham Research Grant, the John L. Tishman Fellowship, and the Calvin C. Solem Foundation Fellowship. He is also serving as a reviewer for a number of journals and symposia in the field of Civil Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and is an active member of professional communities like the ASCE Data Sensing and Analysis (DSA) and the ASCE Visualization, Information Modeling, and Simulation (VIMS) committees.