Pingbo Tang
Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Pingbo Tang is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He founded and is directing Spatiotemporal Workflows and Resilient Management Laboratory (SWARM Lab). He obtained his bachelor’s degree of civil engineering in 2002, and his master’s degree of bridge engineering in 2005, both from Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He obtained is Ph.D. from the group of Advanced Infrastructure Systems (AIS) at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009.
Tang’s research explores the remote sensing, human systems engineering, data analytics, and information modeling technology to support spatiotemporal analyses needed for predictive management of constructed facilities, workspaces and civil infrastructure systems. His on-going studies have been examining sensing and modeling methods for comprehending the Human-Cyber-Physical-Systems (H-CPS) in accelerated construction and infrastructure operations (e.g., airport operations, nuclear plant outage control). He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in these areas. The National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Salt River Project (SRP), and Phoenix Government have funded his research efforts.
Tang holds memberships or leadership positions of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE, the Chair of the ASCE Data Sensing and Analysis committee), TRB (Committee on Bridge Management, AHD35), IABSE, ASPRS, and ASTM International (Committee E57: 3D imaging systems). He is on the editorial board of ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, as well as a reviewer of multiple top journals and conferences related to Computing in Civil Engineering. He won best paper awards on top conferences (the 2019 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, the ASCE 2017 International Workshop on Computing in Civil Engineering, the ASCE 2009 Construction Research Congress), the best poster award of Construction Industry Institute's 2011 Annual Conference, the 2013 Recent Alumnus Achievement Award of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Tang won the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2015.
Education
2009 Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
2005 M.S., Tongji University, China
2002 B.S., Tongji University, China
Affiliations
Research Interests
- AI and ML for security
- artificial intelligence
- automotive and transportation security and privacy
- civil engineering
- computer vision
- cyber physical systems security and privacy
- data science
- data security and privacy
- emerging applications security
- energy and critical infrastructure security
- forensics
- intrusion and anomaly detection and prevention
- manufacturing security
- pattern recognition
- robotics
- security of AI and ML
Media mentions
CMU Engineering
Finding comfort through machine learning
A recent study leverages information provided by building occupants when answering multiple related questions about their thermal comfort to find the real “comfort zone” for most people in a building.
CMU Engineering
AI for aviation
Pingbo Tang is working toward realizing several AI techniques supporting the predictive management of aircraft and other systems.
CEE News
Tang researches water treatment infrastructure using digital twins
CEE’s Pingbo Tang and CEE alumnus Damon Weiss collaborate on water treatment infrastructure research using digital twins.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
The rise of digital twins
Collaborating with industry leaders while combining infrastructure, data analysis, and computing expertise, CEE faculty are working on numerous digital twin projects. Their research aims to predict and prevent vehicle and equipment failures, maintain smart habitats in space, and optimize the safety, equity, and sustainability of various infrastructure systems.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEE students explore the future in 3D with Mega City 2070
Created by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) based on extensive research, Mega City 2070 immerses users in a realistic 3D model of a city home to 50 million people in the year 2070. As students tour this futuristic and interconnected built environment, they can delve into articles, reports, videos, and discussions regarding transportation; construction and materials; energy and utilities; structure and architecture; and water, waste, and environment.
2022 Faculty Awards announced
The 2022 Engineering Faculty Awards winners have been announced.
CMU Engineering
Designing a National Institute for AI in Construction
Burcu Akinci and Pingbo Tang are part of a team designing the future National Institute for AI in Construction.
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Shi awarded Smith Graduate Fellowship
Ph.D. candidate Ying Shi received the award in support of her research on how falsified or missing data mislead multiple levels of bridge inspection and maintenance planning.