Akinci

Burcu Akinci is the Paul Christiano Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Middle East Technical University (Ankara, Turkey), an MBA from Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), and master’s and PhD degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University.

She has made significant contributions in using building information modeling and sensing technologies to increase operational efficiency and support decision-making in construction and facility and infrastructure management. She holds one patent and two provisional patents. Burcu also co-founded LeanFM, a start-up that develops and demonstrates the feasibility of using big data analytics and machine learning to transform facilities operations and maintenance decisions. She is the recipient of the 2020 Computing in Civil Engineering Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Her research interests include the development of approaches to model information-rich histories of facilities in order to streamline construction and facility management processes. She is a proud third-generation civil engineer.