People

Lab Director

Christopher Rausch

Assistant Professor

Area(s) of Expertise
Construction Engineering and Project Management

Educational Qualifications
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Civil Engineering, 2021
M.A.Sc., University of Waterloo, Civil Engineering, 2016
B.A.Sc., University of Waterloo, Civil Engineering, 2015

Technical Interests
Industrialized construction; modular construction; geometric digital twins; digitization; building information modeling; computational design; circular economy; materials reuse.

Post-Doctoral researcher

Jisang Lee
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Jisang is a Postdoctoral research fellow in Construction Engineering and Project Management. He earned his Bachelor’s and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Yonsei University, South Korea. He projects his knowledge and experience in geospatial information to ETHIC project focusing on industrialized construction, geometric digital twins and circular economy.

PhD students

Seungah Suh
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Seungah [sing-ah] is a PhD student in Construction Engineering and Project Management. She earned her B.S. in Architectural Engineering from Ewha Womans University and M.S. from Yonsei University. Her current research interest is in involving building informatics for building material reuse.

Alberto Emmanuel Pozzer
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Emmanuel is a Ph.D. student in CEPM, co-advised by Dr. Fernanda Leite. He received his master’s degree from UT Austin in 2019 and his bachelor’s degree from the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (Argentina) in 2012, both in civil engineering. Emmanuel has worked in the construction industry for 7 years in project management related positions. His current research focuses on decarbonization of capital projects and dealing with uncertainty in carbon assessments.

Guilherme Eliote
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Gui [pronounced as “ghee”] is a Ph.D. student in Construction Engineering and Project Management. He earned his Master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2021 and his Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 2017. Gui’s current research focuses on building adaptation, design for disassembly, and reuse.

Jeehoon Kim
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Jeehoon is a Ph.D. student in Construction Engineering and Project Management. He earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Yonsei University, South Korea. His current research focuses on building a supply chain for material reuse using robotics and AI.

Master’s students

Nikiforos Repousis
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Nikiforos, a Fulbright Fellow from Greece, is pursuing an M.Sc. in CEPM. He holds a Diploma (five-year degree with Integrated M.Eng.) in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. in Analysis and Design of Structures from the National Technical University of Athens. Nikiforos has three years of professional experience in construction management and in bridge structural design. His current research interest is focused on structural material reuse.

Mehul Karamchandani
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Mehul is a student pursuing an M.S. in Construction Engineering and Project Management at the University of Texas at Austin. He completed his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. His academic and professional journey has fueled his passion for project management and the transformative technologies shaping the field of civil engineering.

Caitlin Dubay
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Caitlin is a Master’s student in Structural Engineering. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2023. Her current research focuses on carbon capture and utilization technologies, especially within the construction and transportation industries.

Nirjara Bongurala
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Nirjara is a Master’s student in Construction Engineering and Project Management, researching technologies to enhance supply chain management. She holds a B.Tech from IIT Madras, India. Dedicated to optimizing industry processes, she is exploring innovative solutions to improve construction management.

Undergraduate students

Sophia Lee
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Sophia is a 2nd year undergraduate student in Architectural Engineering with business minor. As an aspiring construction engineer, she is currently exploring her interest in structural engineering and project management.

Alumni

Undergraduate students

  • Sophia Shelton, April 2024
  • Alyssa Roy, April 2024
  • Mary Grace Calara, April 2024
  • Han M Nguyen, Dec 2023
  • Nathan P Titterington, Dec 2023
  • Marianne Saab, Aug 2023

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