Lucio Soibelman

Lucio Soibelman is the Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering Professor at USC. He obtained his BS and MS Degrees from UFRGS, Brazil and worked as a construction manager for 10 years before he obtained his PhD in Civil Engineering Systems from MIT. During the last 25 years as a professor at University of Illinois, Carnegie Mellon University and now at USC he focused his research on advanced data acquisition, management, visualization, and mining for construction and operations of advanced infrastructure systems. He published over 250 books, books chapters, journal papers, and conference articles and performed research with funding from NSF, NASA, DOE, US Army, and NIST among many others funding agencies.

He is the former chief editor of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Computing in Civil Engineering Journal. He has been honored many times. The ASCE recognized him with the Computing in Civil Engineering Award, the Richard R. Torrens Award, the Construction Institute Construction Management Award, and the ASCE Peurifoy Construction Research Award. He is an ASCE Fellow, an ASCE Distinguished member, was a Distinguished 1000 Talent Professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, from 2017-2019, and is a current member of the advisory board for the Contour Craft Corporation a developer and manufacturer of large-scale 3D printing equipment.