Becerik-Gerber

Burçin Becerik-Gerber is the Dean’s Professor and Department Chair of the Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California. She holds a Bachelor and a Master of Science in Architecture from Istanbul Technical University with a Master of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her Doctor of Design degree from Harvard University. She is the founding director of the Innovation in Integrated Informatics Lab and the Center for Intelligent Environments at USC. In her work, she uses machine learning and data science to improve design, construction, and system intelligence of user-centered built environments. Among her awards are the National Science Foundation Career Award and FIATECH’s Outstanding Early Career Researcher. To date, she has published more than 140 peer-reviewed papers. Her research has been supported from a variety of sources.