Vineet R. Kamat, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Office:    2354 G.G. Brown Phone:   (734) 764-4325 Fax:        (734) 764-4292 Email:     vkamat-at-umich-dot-edu Visit my Personal site: Vineet Kamat Visit my Group Page: CEM Mailing Address: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2350 Hayward, 2354 GG Brown Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2125

Program Area: Construction Engineering and Management

Education
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2003
M.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 2000
B.E., Goa University, Goa, India, 1998

Honors
- Best Paper Award, ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2004
- Best Paper Award, ASCE Construction Research Congress, 2005
- NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation. 2005-2010.
- Vecellio Fellowship, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 2002 - 2003.
- Merit Scholarship, Goa University, India. 1997 -1998.

Professional Affiliation and Activities:
Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.
Secretary, ASCE TCCIT Database and Information Management Committee.
Member, ASCE Construction Institute, Construction Research Council.
Member of the Board of Directors, Construction Innovation Forum (CIF).
Member, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

Technical Interests:
Design and implementation of innovative computer and technology applications for Construction and other Engineering disciplines. Current research activities include:

• Visualization of construction activities in outdoor augmented reality.
• Visualization of construction activities at the operations level of detail using inverse kinematics and standard product models.
• Rapid post-disaster building damage evaluation using augmented reality and computational structural simulation (with Sherif El-Tawil).

Selected Publications
Kamat, V. R., and El-Tawil, S. (2005).
“Rapid Post-Disaster Evaluation of Building Damage Using Augmented Reality”,
Proceedings of the 2005 Construction Research Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA. (Best Paper Award).

Kamat, V. R., and Martinez, J. C. (2004).
"Dynamic Three-Dimensional Visualization of Fluid Construction Materials",
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, Vol. 18, No. 3, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA, 237-247. (Best Paper Award).

Behzadan, A. H., and Kamat, V. R. (2005).
"Visualization of Construction Graphics in Outdoor Augmented Reality",
Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ.

Kamat, V. R., and El-Tawil, S. (2005).
“Feasibility of Using Augmented Reality for Rapid Post-Disaster Evaluation of Building Damage”,
Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, VA. (In Review).

Ioannou, P. G., and Kamat, V. R. (2005).
"Intelligent Preemption in Construction of a Manmade Island for an Airport",
Proceedings of the 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ.