Shi (Sheldon) Qiu is a Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Central South University (CSU). From 2015 to 2019, he was an Associate Professor at the Beijing University of Technology after serving as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas in 2014. With a PhD in Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University (2013), an M.S. and a B.S. in Management Science from Beijing Jiaotong University (2009, 2007), his interdisciplinary research focuses on transportation (pavement, airport, rail) and municipal (e.g., utility tunnels) infrastructure development, performance measurements, and intelligent infrastructure asset management and operation. Dr. Qiu currently also serves as the executive deputy director of the Research Center for Railway Infrastructure Smart Monitoring and Management at CSU. He has published extensively on these topics in leading academic journals. He has also been awarded numerous research grants from government agencies and industry sponsors to support his work, which is making significant contributions to the field of civil engineering and infrastructure monitoring.
