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Positions are available at PhD levels in BiLAB. Please contact Prof. Ergan for details.

PhD Students


PhD Students

Zhuoya Shi

PhD Candidate, expected graduation date - May 2024
email: zs1110@nyu.edu

    Zhuoya Shi is a current PhD candidate in Civil Engineering. She earned her bachelor's degree in Cost Estimating from Chang'an University (2014) and a Master's in Construction Engineering from University of Southern California (2017). She joined NYU in Fall 2017 to pursue her PhD in civil engineering with an emphasis on improving urban facade safety inspections using a BIM-based approach.

Research project: A BIM-based approach for improving building façade inspection in cities

Daniel Lu

PhD Student, expected graduation date - Dec 2024
email: dbl299@nyu.edu

    Daniel Lu is a current PhD candidate in civil engineering at New York University. He earned his MS in architectural engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and BSc in civil engineering at Cornell University

Research project: Increasing Work Zone Safety: Worker Behavioral Analysis with Integration of Wearable Sensors and Virtual Reality

Keundeok Park

PhD Candidate, expected graduation date - May 2024
email: kp2393@nyu.edu

    Keundeok Park is a current PhD Candidate in Urban Systems at New York University, joining the bilab Fall 2019. He earned his BSc in Urban Planning and Engineering, MSc in Urban Planning from the Hanyang University in South Korea, and MSc in Applied Urban Science & Informatics at Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University.

Research project: AI-based semantic generative design models for architectural layout design

Beyza Kiper

PhD Student, expected graduation date - May 2025
email: bkiper@nyu.edu

    Beyza Kiper is a current PhD candidate in Civil Engineering. Before joining NYU as a PhD student in Fall 2021, she earned her MSc in Civil Engineering at Purdue University and her BSc in Civil Engineering at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul.

Research project: Computer Vision Enabled Urban Façade Safety and Maintenance

Qi Lin

PhD Candidate, expected graduation date - May 2026
email: ql2309@nyu.edu

    Qi is a PhD candidate in Urban Systems. Prior to joining NYU in 2022, he received his MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University and his MArch from the University of Southern California.

Research project: Data-driven Building and Urban Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Cities

Shuo Zhang

PhD Student, expected graduation date - May 2027
email: sz4580@nyu.edu

    Shuo is a current PhD student in Transportation systems. Before joining NYU as a PhD student in Fall 2023, he earned his MSc in Transportation engineering at UCLA and BSc in Civil engineering at Dalian Jiaotong University.

Research project: Sensor-enabled Calibration of VR-Integrated Co-Simulation Platforms for Enhanced Accuracy in Multi-modal Mobility Models

Heng Quan

PhD Student, expected graduation date - May 2027
email: hq322@nyu.edu

    Heng Quan is currently pursuing his PhD in Urban Systems at NYU, having joined in the Fall of 2023. Prior to this, he earned his BSc in Statistics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his MSc in Applied Urban Science and Informatics from New York University.

Research project: TBD



Master and Bachelor Students


Alumni

Zhengbo Zou, PhD

Graduated: Dec 2020
Currently a tenure track faculty at the University of British Columbia

  • Research Project: Impact of construction on urban quality of life
    Google Scholar
  • Quantification of impact of architecture design on human experience project, Lead Researcher
  • Research poster
  • One pager

Xinran Yu, PhD

Graduated: Dec 2020

Xue Sheryl Yang, PhD

Graduated: September 2014
Currently working at Autodesk Inc.

  • Research Project: A formal approach to provide information support for troubleshooting of HVAC related problems.
  • Research poster

Te Gao, PhD

Graduated: December 2013
Currently working at Amazon Inc.

  • Research Project: Complete And Accurate As-Built BIM Based On An As-Designed BIM And Progressive Laser Scans.
  • Research poster


Former visitors, BSc/MSc students

Visitors

Jindian Liu, 2019

Master students

Sushmita Kadarla

Juan Guerrero

Poornachandra Venkadesh

Neda Talebzadeh

Yu Lu

Siping Wang

Yuerong Ren

Gokmen Dedemen

Robert Chiarelli

Zeyu Meng

Ahmed Radwan

Prateek Khourasia

Kashish

Manya Mishra

Emanuele Morbidoni

Dhruv Patel

Rodrigo Barbosa Lima

Luiz Eduardo Da Silva Arruda

Priscila Daher Russo Dias

Naveen D’Souza Lazar

Bo Gu

Hanzhi Chen

Varun Kumaraswamy

Chenhao Jin

Jennifer Frazier

Jason Jiang

Nur Sila Gulgec

Ruiming Liu

Juncheng (Billy) Li

Haobo Ma

Alejandro Gomez

Katie Knox

Jennifer Frazier

Timothy Lam

Emre Caner Akcay

Chenhao Jin

Weiyu Zhang

Bachelor students

June Bee

Olivia Lin

Genie Hou

Nirav Golyalla

Hanzhi Chen

Millard McElwee

Christopher Ejiofor

Michael Oden

Sarah Ramp

Jeannette Baker


High school students hosted

Summer 2023:
Samira Maria, Brooklyn Technical High School
Daisy Sherpa, Forest Hills High School

Summer 2022:
Sam Karmarkar, Brooklyn Technical High School
Motunrayo Owoborode, Young Women’s Leadership School of Queens

Summer 2021:
Brandon Knox, Peddie School
Sandy Yuan, Brooklyn Technical High School

Summer 2020:
David Ugo-Omernukwa, Bronx High School of Science
Nyah Smith, Computer Science High School

Summer 2019:
InesVillegas Costa, Bard High School Early College
Lauren Pehlivanian, Stuyvesant High School

Summer 2018:
Tina Wong, Stuyvesant High School
Daniel Gomez, Stuyvesant High School

Summer 2017:
Connie Tsang, Hunter College High School
Jason Cheung, Stuyvesant High School

Summer 2016:
Danny Dirusso, Dobbs Ferry School District