Professor
School/Department:School of Civil Engineering
Administrative Position:中南大学轨道交通基础设施智能监控研究中心常务副主任
Education Level:PhD Graduate
Business Address:中南大学铁道学院世纪楼903
Contact Information:sheldon.qiu@csu.edu.cn
Degree:Doctoral degree
Status:Employed
Academic Titles:国家铁路局铁路科技标准规划专家库专家、国铁集团BIM联盟理事、美国工程院交通运输研究委员会青年学术委员、美国土木工程师学会(ASCE)会员
Alma Mater:俄克拉荷马州立大学
Shi (Sheldon) Qiu is a Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Central South University (CSU). He has been an Associate Professor in College of Metropolitan Transportation at Beijing University of Technology after serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at Austin (2014). With a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University (2013), an M.S. and a B.S. in Management Science from Beijing Jiaotong University (2009, 2007), his interdisciplinary research focuses on transportation (pavement, airport, rail) and municipal (e.g. utility tunnel) infrastructure development, performance measurement (PM), and intelligent infrastructure asset management and operation. Dr. Qiu currently serves as a executive deputy director of Center for Railway Infrastructure Smart Mornitoring and Management.
Dr. Qiu manages several innovative research programs on the operation and management of railway systems, and have received research funds exceeding two million dollars from both national and provincial governmental agencies and industries including the National Science Foundation of China. Dr. Qiu hopes to devote his continuous effort towards forging the nexus of smart transportation (with a focus on rail system), smart utility, smart energy and, eventually smart cities, through developing comprehensive and intelligent systems for infrastructure performance evaluation and management.
Dr. Qiu is currently a standing young member of the TRB Committee on International Cooperation (A0010) and Committee on Tunnels and Underground Structures (AFF60), and the invited panel member of several European Union funded projects. Dr. Qiu is also a member of the Rail BIM Committee.
Dr. Qiu welcomes international students who are enthusiastic about exploring the field of rail infrastructure development to join the research group. Applicants with high-level mathmatics and programming skills are greatly encouraged and will be very competitive in the application process.
