Junjie Chen
Junjie Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor, iLab Deputy Director
Aff.M.ASCE, M. IEEE, M. CHES
Hi, my name is Junjie Chen. I am an assistant professor in the Department of Real Estate and Construction at The University of Hong Kong. Before my current position, I was a RAP and postdoc at HKU. I am an academic with broad interests in subjects related to AI, robotics, and their use in the built environment. My work lies at the intersection of engineering, facility management, artificial intelligence, and social science, focusing on robotics in the built environment, smart facility management, human-robot co-existence, and social robotics.
Research Interests
My research covers a broad area in smart and sustainable construction and built environment: Building Information Modeling (BIM), Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Intelligent Compaction, and building and infrastructure inspection.
I am particularly interested in leveraging latest computation instruments (AI, robotics, BIM) to advance our understanding on the increasingly aging built environment (BE), and to provide means for technical and policy intervention to manage the aging BE.
Publications
Chen, J., Chan, I., & Brilakis, I. (2024). Shifting research from defect detection to defect modeling in computer vision-based structural health monitoring. Automation in Construction, 164, 105481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105481
Chen, J., Lu, W., Pan, Y., & Fu, Y. (2024). Building “RoboAvatar”: Industry Foundation Classes–Based Digital Representation of Robots in the Built Environment. Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 38(4), 04024013. https://doi.org/10.1061/JCCEE5.CPENG-5723
Chen, Junjie, et al. "Automatic concrete defect detection and reconstruction by aligning aerial images onto semantic-rich building information model." Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (2022). http://doi.org/10.1111/mice.12928