ICON Lab @ Columbia

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


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News

[06/2025] Kangkang publishes Indoor FireRescue Radar: 4D Indoor Millimeter Wave Dataset and Analysis for Hazardous Environment Perception at IROS 2025.

[06/2025] Weijia publishes Leveraging Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in Goal-Oriented Navigation for Assessing Indoor Energy–Intensive Devices at Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering.

[05/2025] Zhengbo elected as the Member-at-large of VIMS committee ASCE.

[05/2025] Our work Egocentric camera-based method for detecting static hazardous objects on construction sites wins the best dataset award at ASCE DSA.

[03/2025] Kangkang publishes Safety-constrained Deep Reinforcement Learning control for human–robot collaboration in construction in Automation in Construction.

[02/2025] Christine's collaborative work Egocentric camera-based method for detecting static hazardous objects on construction sites published in Automation in Construction.

[01/2025] Zhengbo serves as the Area Chair for the 42nd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2025). Track: Automated/robotic machines, devices, and end-effectors.

[12/2024] Congrats to Mao and Xuezheng on finishing their MASc programs in Civil Engineering at UBC!

[12/2024] Kangkang publishes Training of Construction Robots using Imitation Learning and Environmental Rewards in Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering.

[12/2024] Rui publishes How Far Back Shall We Peer? Optimal Air Handling Unit Control Leveraging Extensive Past Observations in Building and Environment.

[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

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