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.
My recent interests focus on two particular areas: (a) smart facility management via technological empowerments, and (b) social robotics and human-robot co-existence.
Publications
Zhong, J., Chen, J. *, Lu, W. (2026). Few-shot defect contextualization using dual-branch vision foundation models for indoor defect detection and reconstruction. Automation in Construction, 187, 106921.
Huang, Z., Lu, W., Chen, J. *, & Xie, Y. (2026). Large-scale building dilapidation assessment for high-density cities: An urban visual intelligence approach. Cities, 168, 106435.
Chen, J., Lu, W., Ji, X., & Fu, Y. (2025). Improving interoperability in robot digital twinning for facility management: An industry foundation class-represented RoboAvatar approach. Computers in Industry, 173, 104384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2025.104384
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