faculty and staff : Ioannis K. Brilakis
Ioannis K. Brilakis
Assistant Professor

Office:    2356 GG Brown
Phone:   (734) 764-9420
Fax:        (734) 764-4292
Email:     brilakis umich edu

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Mailing Address:
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2350 Hayward, 2356 GG Brown
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125

Program Area: Construction Engineering and Management

Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 2005
M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 2002
B.S., University of Patras, Greece, 2001

Honors
- Distinguished Scientist Abroad Award, Hellenic National Defense General Staff, 2006
- Fellowship, Christina Athanasiades Foundation, 2002
- Fellowship, Technical Chamber of Greece, 2001

Professional Affiliation and Activities:
- Assistant Specialty Editor, ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
- Member, TRB ABJ50 Information Systems and Technology Committee
- Vice Chair, ASCE TCCIT Intelligent Computing Committee
- Member, ASCE TCCIT Database and Information Management Committee
- Associate Member, American Society of Civil Engineers
- Member, American Society for Engineering Education
- Licensed PE, National Technical Chamber of Greece
- Director, Construction Information Technology Laboratory

Technical Interests:
Computing and information technologies for the architecture, engineering, construction, and facilities management industries (AEC/FM). Current research interests include: visual pattern recognition technologies for construction site multimedia data extraction, classification, retrieval, and processing; long range wireless networking for site/office communications; knowledge extraction and management; intelligent automation of construction tasks; infrastructure conditioning assessment, modeling, sensing, and management; integration of project information into visualization and simulation models; project control systems and field management technologies; communication, collaboration and coordination technologies.

Selected Publications
Brilakis, I. (2007).
"Long Distance Wireless Networking for Site - Office Data Communications",
Journal of Information Technology in Construction, Vol. 12, Pages 151 - 164.

Brilakis, I., Soibelman, L., and Shinagawa, Y. (2006).
"Construction Site Image Retrieval Based on Material Cluster Recognition",
Journal of Advanced Engineering Informatics, Elsevier Science, Vol. 20, No. 4, Pages 443 - 452.

Brilakis, I. and Soibelman, L. (2006).
"Multi-Modal Image Retrieval from Construction Databases and Model-Based Systems",
Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 132, No. 7, Pages 777 - 785.

Brilakis, I., Soibelman, L. and Shinagawa, Y. (2005)
“Material-Based Construction Site Image Retrieval”,
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Volume 19, Issue 4, October 2005.

Brilakis, I. and Soibelman, L. (2005).
“Content-Based Search Engines for Construction Image Databases”,
Automation in Construction, Elsevier Science, Volume 14, Issue 4, August 2005, Pages 537-550.