Anumba

Chimay Anumba is professor and dean, College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida. He holds a PhD in civil engineering from the University of Leeds, UK, and a DSc in Construction Engineering and Informatics from Loughborough University, UK. He previously was head of the Department of Architectural Engineering at Penn State.

Chimay is well known globally for seminal contributions on the innovative use of advanced computing techniques to address complex problems in design and construction. He has more than 500 publications, including 20 books and over 200 archival journal papers on aspects of construction engineering and informatics. His research has received support worth more than $150 million from a variety of sources.

He has received numerous honors for his work and has held visiting professorships on four continents. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers; the Institution of Structural Engineers; and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) in 2007 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2012. ASCE recognized him with its Computing in Civil Engineering Award in 2018.