Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Kevin Han

Kevin Han is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. He received a PhD in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management emphasis) and Master of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a MS in Civil Engineering (Construction Engineering and Management emphasis) and a BA in Architecture/Minor in Structural Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Han’s research focuses on creating and validating new computer vision and machine learning analytics that leverage emerging and often already existing visual data (images, videos, and point cloud data) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) for effective construction project controls, enhancing site-to-office and office-to-site communications, safety and hazard recognition, and safety training and monitoring. He is particularly interested in new modalities of information and user interaction, including Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Augmented Virtuality. Other areas of interest include robotics for automating management of civil infrastructure systems (subtopics to include autonomous navigation for data collection and analytics) and project-based learning for STEM education.

He has served as a Co-chair of the Automation and Robotics Track and a Technical Committee at the 2018 Construction Research Congress (CRC – an international conference organized by ASCE Construction Institute). He has served on an Advisory Committee for an international research project entitled “BIM-based Bridge Management System” led by Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea. He was a recipient of Best Paper Award from 2015 ASCE IWCCE and a 2nd Best Poster Award at 2014 CRC.