Burcu Akinci
Burcu Akinci is Paul Christiano Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the National Academies of Construction.
Her research interests include modeling and reasoning about information rich histories of buildings and infrastructure systems to streamline construction and infrastructure operations. She specifically focuses on investigating utilization and integration of building information models with data capture technologies, such as 3D imaging and embedded sensors, to create digital twins of construction projects and infrastructure operations and develop approaches to support proactive and predictive operations and management.
Burcu has two patents and one provisional patent and over 70 refereed journal publications and 100 conference publications. She was the PI of more than $6 million in grants and co-PI of more than $10 million in grants supported by federal and state agencies and industry. She has given over 100 invited presentations and co-edited books on CAD/GIS Integration and on Embedded Commissioning.
She earned a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), an MBA from Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) and Master’s and PhD degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a specialization in Construction Engineering and Management from Stanford University.