Burcu Akinci

About

Dr. Burcu Akinci is Paul Christiano Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the National Academies of Construction. She earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), MBA from Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), and Master’s and PhD degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering with a specialization in Construction Engineering and Management from Stanford University. Her research interests modeling and reasoning about information rich histories of buildings and infrastructure systems, to streamline construction and infrastructure operations. She specifically focuses on investigating utilization and integration of building information models with data capture technologies, suc