ICON Lab @ Columbia
We embed intelligence and advance automation in the life-cycle of design, construction and maintenance of civil infrastructure.
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.
[03/2026] Zhengbo joins the Technical Programm Committee for the ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2026).
[03/2026] Zhengbo serves as the Area Chair for the 43nd International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction (ISARC 2026). Track: Automated/robotic machines, devices, and end-effectors.
[11/2025] Zhengbo serves as the Ph.D. Forum Co-Chair for the ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2025).
[11/2025] Zhengbo delivers talk at Stony Brook University, Department of Civil Engineering Seminar Series.
[10/2025] We open source ConstructionSite 10K., the first dataset containing 10k construction site images developed to test how vision language models (VLMs) can understand construction site images for image captioning, visual grounding, and safety rule violation VQA.
[09/2025] Kangkang successfully defended his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at UBC! Congrats Kangkang!
[06/2025] We open source Indoor FireRescue Radar., the first 4D Indoor Millimeter Wave Dataset for Hazardous Environment Perception.
[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.
[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!
[11/2024] Zhengbo joins the Technical Program Committee for ACM SenSys: Embedded Artificial Intelligence and Sensing Systems 2025.
[08/2024] ICON lab joins the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University