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Fei Dai
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Recent News:

  • Jan. 2024: Ms. Mahfuza Maisha Mouri joined ICIL in pursuit of her PhD degree. Welcome, Maisha.

  • Dec. 2023: A journal paper titled “Accurate road user localization in aerial images captured by unmanned aerial vehicles” by Lu and Dai was published by Automation in Construction. Cheers!

  • Nov. 2023: A journal paper titled “Review of emerging technologies for reducing ergonomic hazards in construction workplaces” by Rahma, Ghasemi, Dai, and Ryu was published by Buildings. Cheers! See the paper.

  • Jun. 2023: A journal paper titled “Uniformity Inspection of Tack Coats Through Measurement Conducted on Drone-Collected Images” by da Silva, Lu, Zhu, Wang, and Dai was accepted by Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. Cheers!

  • Jun. 2023: A journal paper titled “Automated Classification of the Phases Relevant to Work-Related Musculoskeletal Injury Risks in Residential Roof Shingle Installation Operations Using Machine Learning” by Dutta, Breloff, Mahmud, Dai, Sinsel, Warren, and Wu was published by Buildings. Cheers! See the paper.

  • May 2023: Mr. Taylor Layne joined ICIL as an UG researcher. Welcome, Taylor.

  • Apr. 2023: A journal paper titled “An Eye Gaze-Aided Virtual Tape Measure for Smart Construction” by Wang, Han, Du, Dai, and Zhu was accepted by Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. Cheers!

  • Apr. 2023: ICILer Aida Da Silva passed her master defense. Congrats, Aida!

  • Apr. 2023: ICILer Dilruba Mahmud passed her master defense. Congrats, Lira!

  • Mar. 2023: A journal paper titled “Usability and Biomechanical Testing of Passive Exoskeletons for Construction Workers: A Field-Based Pilot Study” by Bennett, Han, Mahmud, Adamczyk, Dai, Wehner, Veeramani, and Zhu was published by Buildings. Cheers! See the paper.

  • Feb. 2023: A journal paper titled “Digitalization of traffic scenes in support of intelligent transportation applications” by Lu and Dai was accepted by ASCE's Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. Cheers!

  • Jan. 2023: Dr. Dai gave a webinar on topic "Automated Path Tracking and Mapping for Economical, Real-Time, and Knowledge-Based Roller Control in Pavement Compaction Operations" hosted by the Center for Integrated Asset Management for Multimodal Transportation Infrastructure Systems (CIAMTIS).

  • Jan. 2023: Mr. Alireza Ghasemi joined ICIL in pursuit of his PhD degree. Welcome, Ali.

  • Dec. 2022: A journal paper titled “Identifying facilitators, barriers, and potential solutions of adopting exoskeletons and exosuits in construction workplaces” by Mahmud, Bennett, Zhu, Adamczyk, Wehner, Veeramani, and Dai was published by Sensors. Cheers! See the paper.

  • Nov. 2022: ICILer Linjun Lu passed his doctoral defense. Congrats, Linjun!

  • Nov. 2022: ICILer Mohhammad Sujon passed his doctoral defense. Congrats, Sujon!

  • Oct. 2022: Dr. Dai joined the Editorial Board as an Associate Editor for Automation in Construction, which is one of the top journals in civil and construction engineering.

  • Sep. 2022: ICILers Linjun Lu, Sourav Dutta, Dilruba Mahmud, and Aida da Silva won the 3rd place at the third annual Visualization, Information Modeling and Simulation (VIMS), and first annual joint Datathon Competition between VIMS and the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction. See Statler's e-news. Congratulations!

  • Aug. 2022: Dr. Dai has been selected to receive the Best Paper Award from the 2022 Transforming Construction with Reality Capture Technologies (TCRC) Conference. The title of the paper is "An eye tracking based virtual tape measure in construction". See Statler Circuit.

  • Aug. 2022: Ms. Nazia Zerin joined ICIL in pursuit of her MS degree. Welcome, Nazia.

  • Aug. 2022: Mr. Mohammad Samin Mansur joined ICIL in pursuit of his MS degree. Welcome, Samin.

  • Jul. 2022: ICIL successfully organized the EXO-Assisted Future Construction: Work, Workers, and Workplaces workshop in Morgantown, WV on July 21-22 funded through an NSF grant. See Statler Circuit.

  • Apr. 2022: A group member, Linjun Lu, received the 2021-2022 Maurice and JoAnn Wadsworth Graduate Fellowship from the Department. Congratulations, Linjun!

  • Apr. 2022: Dr. Dai received the 2021-2022 Outstanding Service Award from the Department.

  • Apr. 2022: Mr. Zachary Kristan joined ICIL as an UG researcher. Welcome, Zak.

  • Mar. 2022: Dr. Dai made both an in-person presentation and a virtual presentation on bridges and their construction to the college's Fundamentals of Engineering Program students to better engage them with their ENGR 101 Bridge project.

  • Mar. 2022: A journal paper titled “Automated visual surveying of vehicle heights to help measure the risk of overheight collisions using deep learning and view geometry” by Lu, and Dai was accepted by Wiley Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. Cheers!

  • Mar. 2022: A group member, Mohhammad Sujon, successfully delivered a presentation titled "Machine learning-enabled automatic vehicle detection for virtual weigh-in-motion applications" in the 2022 ASCE CI & CRC Joint Conference. Well done!

  • Mar. 2022: A group member, Linjun Lu, successfully delivered a presentation titled "Visual surveying of on-road vehicle height for over-height warning using deep learning and view geometry" in the 2022 ASCE CI & CRC Joint Conference. Well done!

  • Jan. 2022: ICIL received a CIAMTIS competitive award titled "Prediction of Pavement Performance via Integrated Pavement Health and Traffic Monitoring with Deep Learning and Predictive Modeling" to study AI-based modeling for pavement performance oversight.

  • Jan. 2022: A group member, Mohhammad Sujon, was awarded the 2021 University Transportation Centers (UTCs) Annual Outstanding Student of the Year. See the Statler's e-news and the UTC SOY Booklet. Congratulations, Sujon!

  • Oct. 2021: A journal paper titled “A unified normalization method for homography estimation using combined point and line correspondences” by Lu, and Dai was accepted by Wiley Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. Cheers!

  • Aug. 2021: ICIL received a NSF award titled "FW-HTF-P: Collaborative Research: Exoskeleton-Assisted Worker Performance Augmentation in Construction" to study future construction work, workplace, and workers with the assistance of wearable EXOs.

  • Aug. 2021: Mr. Sourav Dutta joined ICIL in pursuit of his MS degree. Welcome, Sourav.

  • Aug. 2021: Ms. U S M Dilruba Mahmud joined ICIL in pursuit of her MS degree. Welcome, Lira.

  • Jul. 2021: A journal paper titled “Application of weigh-in-motion technologies for pavement and bridge response monitoring: State-of-the-art review” by Sujon, and Dai was accepted by Elsevier Automation in Construction. Cheers!

  • Feb. 2021: A journal paper titled “Application of data fusion via canonical polyadic decomposition in risk assessment of musculoskeletal disorders in construction: procedure and stability evaluation” by Dutta, Breloff, Dai, Sinsel, Carey, Warren, and Wu was accepted by ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. Cheers!

  • Jan. 2021: Ms. Aida da Silva joined ICIL in pursuit of her MS degree. Welcome, Aida.

  • Aug. 2020: Ms. Nagavardhani Malineni joined ICIL in pursuit of her MS degree. Welcome, Vardhani.

  • Aug. 2019: Mr. Linjun Lu joined ICIL in pursuit of his PhD degree. Welcome, Linjun.

  • May 2019: A journal paper titled “Vision-based detection and visualization of dynamic workspaces” by Luo, Li, Wang, Wu, Dai, and Cao was accepted by Elsevier Automation in Construction. Cheers!

  • June 2019: A journal paper titled “Vision-based detection and visualization of dynamic workspaces” by Luo, Li, Wang, Wu, Dai, and Cao was accepted by Elsevier Automation in Construction. Cheers!

  • Apr. 2019: A journal paper titled “Vision-based detection and visualization of dynamic workspaces” by Luo, Li, Wang, Wu, Dai, and Cao was accepted by Elsevier Automation in Construction. Cheers!

  • Apr. 2019: A journal paper titled “Vision-based detection and visualization of dynamic workspaces” by Luo, Li, Wang, Wu, Dai, and Cao was accepted by Elsevier Automation in Construction. Cheers!

  • Jan. 2019: Mr. Mohhammad Sujon joined ICIL in pursuit of his PhD degree. Welcome, Sujon.

  • Sep. 2018: A journal paper titled “A forensic investigation of the Tai-He arch bridge collapse” by Xu, Wang, Wei, Taciroglu, Dai, and Peng was accepted by Elsevier Engineering Structures. Cheers!

  • Apr. 2018: Ms. Jing Cao from Central South University, China joined ICIL as a visiting scholar. Welcome, Jing.

  • Feb. 2018: Dr. Dai received 2017 outstanding reviewer recognition by ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.