Dr. Xi Hu
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
Dr. Hu is currently an Assistant Professor of Construction Management in the Department of Technology at ISU. Before this appointment, he was at New Jersey Institute of Technology for academic training and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering (Construction Management focus). He has mentored more than 10 students from high school to graduate school levels for research and served as a reviewer for various prestigious journals in his field, such as ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering, ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, and Building and Environment. His research work has been published in plenty of well-known journals like ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering, Expert Systems With Applications, Journal of Building Engineering, and ASCE International Journal of Geomechanics.
Current Courses
TEC 400.003 Independent Study
TEC 224.001 Soils And Foundations
TEC 224.002 Soils And Foundations
Teaching Interests & Areas
Construction materials, cost estimating, soil mechanics, strength of materials, and building information modeling.
Research Interests & Areas
Dr. Hu's primary research interests are construction automation, digital twins, applied robotics and artificial intelligence, smart sensing, and data analytics. Research areas include (1) digitization of built environment, (2) smart workforce monitoring and management (workforce safety and productivity), (3) intelligent infrastructure systems, and (4) structural health monitoring.
His research aims to advance and enrich the managerial practices of built assets (e.g., buildings, bridges, and pavements), construction workforce, and civil infrastructures through domain knowledge-enhanced, data-driven, technology-enabled, and AI-powered solutions.