We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Lucio Soibelman has been appointed Associate Editor of Buildings (ISSN: 2075-5309).

Prof. Dr. Soibelman obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at the Civil Engineering Department of the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He worked as a construction manager for 10 years before moving to the United States in 1993, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering Systems in 1998 at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

In 1998, he started working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. In 2004, he moved to be an Associate Professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and in 2008, he was promoted to Professor. In January 2012, he joined the University of Southern California as the Chair of the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

During the last 25 years, he has focused his research on advanced data acquisition, management, visualization, and mining for the construction and operation of advanced infrastructure systems. He has published over 150 books, book chapters, journal papers, conference articles, and reports, and has performed research with funding from NSF (NSF career award and several other NSF grants), NASA, DOE, the US Army, NIST, IBM, Bosch, IDOT, and RedZone Robotics, among many other funding agencies. He is the former Chief Editor of the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. In 2010, he received the ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award; in 2011, he received the FIATECH Outstanding Researcher Celebration of Engineering & Technology Innovation, or CETI, Award; in 2013, he was elected an ASCE fellow; in 2016, he was appointed the USC Viterbi Dean Professor, received the ASCE Construction Institute Construction Management Award, and received the ASCE Richard R. Torrens Award in recognition of his contributions as Chief Editor of the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. In 2019, he was elected a member of the U.S. National Academy of Construction.

His areas of interest are the use of information technology for economic development, information technology support for construction management, process integration during the development of large-scale engineering systems, information logistics, artificial intelligence, data mining, knowledge discovery, image reasoning, text mining, machine learning, advanced infrastructure systems, sensors, streaming data, and multi-reasoning mechanisms.

We are confident that Prof. Dr. Soibelman’s academic background will help us continue to raise the prestige and quality of Buildings. We look forward to his contributions to the journal. For more information about the Editorial Board, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/buildings/editors.