COMMITTEES

International Advisory Board

• Mirosław Skibniewski (University of Maryland, USA - chairman)

Mirosław J. Skibniewski is a Professor of Construction Engineering and Project Management at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA. His current research interests focus on information and automation technologies for the improvement of construction and related processes, and on the analysis of supply chains for sustainable construction. A past president of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Automation in Construction, an international research journal published by Elsevier, and as North American Editor of the Journal of Civil Engineering and Management published by Taylor & Francis.

• Miklós Hajdu (Szent István University, Hungary - chairman)

Miklos Hajdu PhD received his PhD degree in construction management in 1995 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He has been the head of the Department of Construction Management at Szent István University's Ybl Miklós Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering since 2003. He was founding president of the Hungarian Project Management Association, and is the vice-president of the Hungarian Scientific Society for Building. Professor Hajdu serves as the editor-in-chief and member of the editorial board of numerous Hungarian and international journals. He has several dozens of publications including books and papers in internationally indexed journals. His research areas include but are not limited to scheduling and cost optimization in the field of project management.

• Syed M. Ahmed (East Carolina University, USA)

Dr. Syed M. Ahmed is Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Construction Management at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina USA. Dr. Ahmed received his Ph.D. in 1993 from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Ahmed has over 25 years of international experience in teaching, research and consulting in Pakistan, Hong Kong, USA, Mexico, and Jamaica. His areas of interest/expertise are construction scheduling, quality and risk management, project controls, construction safety, construction procurement, and construction education and information technology. He is the author of four books and has also published extensively in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr. Ahmed is currently on the editorial board of more than 6 international journals and serves as the Associate Editor of ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering & Management and the Associate Editor of the Built Environment Project & Asset Management (BEPAM) Journal.

• Lieyun Ding (North-Eastern University, China)
  

• Árpád Horváth (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

• Mladen Radujkovic (Technical University of Zagreb, Croatia)

• Edmundas Zavadskas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania)

International Scientific Committee

• Hamimah Adnan (Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia)

• Irtishad Ahmad (Florida International University, USA)

• Syed M. Ahmed (East Carolina University, USA)
  

• Dennis Bausman (Clemson University, USA)
  

• Thomas Bock (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
  

• Ioannis Brilakis (Cambridge University, UK)

• Albert Chan (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
  

• Andrzej Cwirzen (Aalto University, Finland)

• Erik Demeulemeester (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)

• Lieyun Ding (North-Eastern University, China)

• László Dunai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
  

• Neil N. Eldin (University of Houston, USA)
  

• Dongping Fang (Tsinghua University, China)

• Jozef Gasparik (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia)

• Miklós Hajdu (Szent István University, Hungary)

• Thomas Hanak (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)

• Bozena Hola (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland)

• Árpád Horváth (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

• Will Hughes (University of Reading, UK)

• Shabtai Isaac (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)

• Edward Jaselskis (North Carolina State University, USA)

• Scott Kelting (California Polytechnic State University, USA)
  

• Rita Kiss (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

• Tamás Koltai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)

• Sui-Pheng Low (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

• Gunnar Lucko (The Catholic University of America, USA)

• Zhiliang Ma (Tsinghua University, China)

• Ferenc Makovényi (Szent István University, Hungary)
  

• Levente Mályusz (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
  

• Osama Moselhi (Concordia University, Canada)

• Thomas Ng (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

• John-Paris Pantouvakis (National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

• Mladen Radujkovic (Technical University of Zagreb, Croatia)

• Alfredo Serpell (Pontifical Catholic University, Chile)

• Li-Yin Shen (Chongqing University, China)

• Geoffrey Shen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

• Mirosław Skibniewski (University of Maryland, USA)

• Ramzi Taha (Qatar University, Qatar)

• Ales Tomek (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)

• Koshy Varghese (Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, India)

• Avi Wiezel (Arizona State University, USA)

• Wen-der Yu (Chung Hua University, Taiwan)
  

• Edmundas Zavadskas (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania)

• Zhenhua Zhu (Concordia University, Canada)