ICON Lab @ Columbia

We embed intelligence and advance automation in the life-cycle of design, construction and maitanenece of civil infrastructure.


Joining ICON

If you're a Columbia student interested in working with us, please email Zhengbo with the subject line "Columbia student research request - YOUR NAME". If you're a prospective Ph.D. student, please apply directly to the corresponding program and select Zhengbo as your preferred advisor in your application.


Members

Alumni

News

[11/2024] Zhengbo joins the Technical Program Committee for ACM SenSys: Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems 2025.

[11/2024] Harry publishes ICON Drone at ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2024).

[09/2024] Lei and Weijia publishes VIRL at Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2024.

[08/2024] ICON lab joins the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University

[06/2024] ICON partnered with Hikma Collective to further professional development for research students and receives CIFAL Victoria certificate for UN sustainable development goals

[05/2024] Zhengbo joins the Technical Program Committee for ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2024).

[05/2024] Zhengbo gives talk to the IEEE Vancouver Section on "Embodied AI for Construction".

[03/2024] Zhengbo receives CFI JELF grant to enable emotional intelligent robots for construction.

[01/2024] Zhengbo serves as the technical co-chair for the 2024 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE). Track: Artificial Intelligence and Data-driven Applications for Built-Environment Management

[12/2023] Zhengbo gives talk at University of Waterloo on "Intelligent Construction with Robotics"

[11/2023] Weijia presents RoboAuditor at buildsys 2023 in Turkiye.

[09/2023] Lei receives UBC CIV-Ex award

[06/2023] Zhengbo receives UBC Campus as a Living Lab grant to enable autonomous leak detection for UBC buildings using robots.

[06/2023] ICON hosts undergraduate students for research

We welcome Royce Zhang and Aaron Yang as work learn international undergrads to ICON.

[05/2023] Zhengbo receives NSERC Alliance Mission Grant to reduce building energy consumption and detect leaks using autonomous robots, collaborating with Dr. Omar Swei, Dr. Qian Chen, Dr. Kefei Wen, and Dr. Hee Yeon Im.

[04/2023] Zhengbo and Dr. Hee Yeon Im receives New Frontiers in Research Fund for predictive human-robot collaboration in construction.

[04/2023] Zhengbo serves as the technical co-chair for the 2024 ASCE Construction Research Congress (CRC). Track: Advanced Technologies and Data Analytics

[01/2023] Zhengbo serves as the technical co-chair for the 2023 ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (i3CE). Track: Big data and Machine Learning

[11/2022] Weijia presents TEA-Bot at buildsys 2022 in Boston.

[09/2022] Lei, Weijia, Rui, and Harry receive fellowship as the second cohort of CITech sponsored by MMRI

[06/2022] Kangkang receives CIV-Ex and CSC scholarship to pursue his Ph.D. at ICON

[06/2022] ICON hosts undergraduate students for research

We welcome Zihan Zhu, Rosaline Baek, and Royce Zhang as work learn international undergrads to ICON.

[05/2022] Zhengbo receives UBC Collaborative Research Mobility Award with Dr. Qian Chen at UBC-Okanagan

[05/2022] Lei and Weijia win Best Student Paper of the General Conference at CSCE 2022

The two won best student paper at the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE) annual conference held in Whitsler, BC in May, 2022. Their paper is titled “Virtual Reality-Based Expert Demonstrations for Training Construction Robots via Imitation Learning”.

[03/2022] Lei receives the J.K. Zee Memorial Fellowship for 2022

[03/2022] Zhengbo collaborates with Dr. Tony Yang and Dr. Cristiano Loss to win NSERC Alliance Mission Grant to build tall timber modular buildings

[03/2022] Zhengbo receives NSERC Discovery Grant to optimize indoor environments for building occupants

[09/2021] Weijia receives UBC CIV-Ex award

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