Organization – The International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction

The International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction

Organization of IAARC

IAARC is a not-for-profit-organization (NPO) that uses its membership dues to develop services for, and facilitate and maintain communication between its members. IAARC is managed by its board whose directors and presidency continually change. The dynamic nature of the Association ensures that fresh ideas are brought into the organization whilst benefiting from the experience of others.

The organizational structure of IAARC is:

The Board of Directors (BOD) meets annually during the ISARC symposium and has some virtual meetings throughout the remainder of the year. The members of IAARC’s executive board are the President, the Vice-Presidents, the Past President and the General Secretary. Their activities involve: take responsibility for the association; approach new members; initiate and prepare board meetings; create reports for the annual BOD-meeting, i.e. membership status, financial statement and the budget for the coming years. The constitution of IAARC can be found here.

President

Hyoungkwan

Kim

Yonsei University

Republic of Korea

Past President

Frédéric

Bosché

University of Edinburgh

United Kingdom

Vice-Presidents

Policy and Finance	Frédéric	Bosché	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
Publications	Vineet	Kamat	University of Michigan	USA
Annual Symposium	Yong	Cho	Georgia Institute of Technology	USA
Chapters and Innovation Hubs	Ram Kumar	Mantha	University of Sharjah	UAE
Education, Workshops and Summer School	Shabtai	Isaac	Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Israel
Communication	Yelda	Turkan	Oregan State University	USA
Industry	Xiangyu	Wang	Curtin University	Australia

General Secretary

Borja

Garcia de Soto

NYU Abu Dhabi

UAE

Treasurer

Johnson Xuesong

Shen

UNSW Sydney

Australia

Elected BOD Members

Mohamed	Al-Hussein	University of Alberta	Canada
Mehrdad	Arashpour	Monash University	Australia
Thomas	Bock	Technical University Munich	Germany
Ioannis	Brilakis	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom
Alexey	Bulgakov	Ministy of education and science of Russian federation	Russia
Alessandro	Carbonari	Università politecnica delle marche Ancona	Italy
Daniel	Castro-Lacouture	Purdue University	USA
Hung-Ming	Chen	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology	Taiwan R.O.C.
Po-Han	Chen	Concordia University	Canada
Qian	Chen	University of British Columbia	Canada
Chen	Feng	New York University	USA
Raul	Fuentes	RWTH Aachen	Germany
Vicente	Gonzalez	University of Alberta	Canada
Carl T.	Haas	University of Waterloo	Canada
Daniel	Hall	TU Delft	Netherlands
Amin	Hammad	Concordia University	Canada
Rauno	Heikkilä	University of Oulu	Finland
Kepa	Iturralde	Technical University Munich	Germany
Markus	Kőnig	Ruhr-University Bochum	Germany
Soonwook	Kwon	Sungkyunkwan University	Republic of Korea
Zoubeir	Lafhaj	EC Lille	France
Nan	Li	Tsinghua University	China
Thomas	Linner	Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg	Germany
Joseph	Louis	Oregon State University	USA
Ming Shan (Charmaine)	Ng	Kyoto Institute of Technology	Japan
Wei	Pan	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Benny	Raphael	IIT Madras	India
Saiedeh	Razavi	McMaster University	Canada
Piotr	Szynkarczyk	Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Research Institute for Automation & Measurements PIAP	Poland
Jochen	Teizer	Technical University of Denmark (DTU)	Denmark
Józef	Wrona	Łukasiewicz Research Network – Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP	Poland
Jiansong	Zhang	Purdue University	USA
Zhenhua	Zhu	University of Wisconsin	USA

Honorary BOD Members

Yukio	Hasegawa (In Memoriam)	Waseda University – Tokyo	Japan
Ronie	Navon	Technion – Israel Institute of Technology	Israel
Miroslaw	Skibniewski	University of Maryland	USA
Richard L.	Tucker	The University of Texas at Austin	USA

Farzad is a Professor of Digital Engineering at the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, UK. He is the leader of the Centre for Sustainable Engineering and Open Research and Output Quality Lead, SCEDT, Teesside University. He is Editor in Chief: Smart and Sustainable Built Environment (SCI/JCR IF=3.6, CiteScore Tracker: 9.1) and Associate Editor: AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION (SCI/JCR IF=10.3, Citescore: 16.7). Farzad has a robust research track record delivering more than 200 quality publications and more than 3800 citations. Farzad’s research covers various aspects of Construction 5.0, with a strong emphasis on adopting cutting-edge technologies to serve the NetZero and sustainability agenda, including XR for H&S training, AI and deep-learning for sustainable infrastructures and logistics, smart construction, circular construction, energy policies, data-driven digital twins, demand response optimisation, smart energies, DLT and blockchain technologies, and social innovation. Farzad has successfully led several high-profile research projects – from H2021, InnovateUK through to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC), Scottish Funding Council (SFC), Data Lab, and Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC). Farzad secured research and innovation income of over £2.5m. This expertise and standing are also recognised through several high-profile bodies, including the International Council for Building (CIB) and buildingSMART International. He graduated with 10 PhD students in the topics across the fields above, and some of them are already senior academics at reputable institutions such as the University of Cambridge, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Salford, and some hold leadership positions in the industry.