Cui, Qingbin
Maryland Energy Innovation Institute
RheaEDUCATION
- PhD, Purdue University
- MS, Tianjin University
- BE, Tianjin University
TEACHING
- ENCE 422 Project Cost Accounting and Economics
- ENCE602 Project Procurement Management
- ENCE688Y Research Methods
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Public-Private Partnership
- Smart Construction
- Data Analytics
- Infrastructure Management
- Energy and Sustainability
RECENT PROJECTS
- IIJA Launchpad to support the implementation of IIJA
- GrantsPlus to automate federal grant application and evaluation
- Build America Center
- FTA Enhancing Mobility Innovation on carbon credits and equity credits using EquityRides
- Green Pavement Design using Pavenext to create carbon credits
- Information Sources for Major Transportation Projects
- State Infrastructure Banks
- Smart Counties in Kansas
- NSF-SCC: Smart & Connected Bikeways: Community-Driven Co-Designs
- Value Capture Study on the Montgomery County FLASH BRT Network
- Louisiana Rural Infrastructure Development Technical Support
STUDENT ADVISING (PhD)
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Deepak Sharma, 2012
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Design of Availability Payment Mechanism for Public Private Partnerships |
Professor at the California State University, Fullerton |
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Robert Young, 2013 |
Variation on the Normative Feedback model for Energy Efficiency Behavior in the Context of Military Family Housing |
Lt. Col, Assistant Professor at the United States Air Force Academy |
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Shu-Chien (Mark) Hsu, 2013 |
A Complexity-based Approach to Team Selection ( co-chair with Mirek Skibniewski) |
Associate Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
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Xinyuan Zhu, 2014 |
Offtake Strategy Design for Wind Energy Projects under Uncertainty |
Senior Strategist at Boeing Company |
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Morteza Farajian, 2015 |
Structured Finance in Public Private Partnership Projects |
Executive Director of Build America Bureau at USDOT |
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Soumajit Ghosh, 2016 |
IT Project in Non-Profit Universities: A Project Governance Perspective |
North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts |
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Clara M Cheung, 2017 |
The antecedents of safety leadership |
Lecture (Assistant Professor) at University of Manchester, UK |
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Xiaoyu Liu, 2017 |
The Trouble with Voluntary Carbon Trading for Buildings Exposed to Hurricane Risk |
Senior Risk Analyst, Capital One |
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Qinyi Ding, 2018 |
Using Social Media to Evaluate Public Acceptance of Infrastructure Projects |
Senior Data Engineer at Amazon Web Services |
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Yujie Lu, 2018 |
Occupant Behavior in Building Energy Management: Behavioral Characterization, Intervention and Forecasting |
Professor at Tongji University |
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Paul Hichey, 2023 |
A Study of Gender Diversity in US AEC Industry Leadership |
Entrepreneur/StealthEnomics |
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AbdolMajid Erfani, 2023 |
Data-Driven Risk Modeling for Infrastructure Projects Using AI |
Assistant Professor at Michigan Tech |
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Cheryl Marek, 2023 |
Fire Risk Management in Shipbuilding Procurement |
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Kunqi Zhang, 2024 |
Examination of US Transportation Public Private Partnership Experience: Performance and Market |
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Yu Wang, 2024 |
Towards Automated Contract Analysis: Applying Language Models to Risk Identification in the Context of Public Private Partnership |
Assistant Professor at Lingnan University |
| Zahra Halimi | AI in Workforce Development |
Expected 2026 |
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Nour Alkhalouf |
Project Information Exchange and Critical Communication Analysis |
Expected 2026 |
| Abubakr M. Hamid | Agile Methods for Transportation Project Delivery | Expected 2026 |
| Dongyang Zhen |
LLM Mobility and Context Modeling |
Expected 2027 |
| Qadri Shaheen |
Innovative financing |
Expected 2027 |
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Moyassar Mohammed |
Crowd Intelligence for BIL Implementation |
Expected 2027 |
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Amir Ghorban |
AI in Site Inspection and Compliance |
Expected 2027 |
| Richard Blanton | TBD | Expected 2028 |
| Huan Zhou | AI and Urban Infrastructure Engineering | Expected 2028 |
| Niping Duan | AI and Urban Infrastructure Engineering |
Expected 2028 |
| Rhea Qin | Co-Planning for Infrastructure Systems |
Expected 2029 |
- Halimi, Z. , Z. SafariTaherkhani, M.; and Cui, Q.* (2025). A Generalized Framework for Assessing Equity in Transportation Infrastructure: An Exploratory Study. ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering.
- Zhang, K, Cui, Q.*, and DeCorla-Souza, P. (2025) “Performance and Efficiency Diffusion of Transportation Public-Private Partnerships”. ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 151(1)
- Hickey, P.J. and Cui, Q. (2024) Tracing the career trajectories of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) women leaders. Construction Management and Economics, 42(4), 289-306.
- Wang, Y., Kwak, Y, and Cui, Q. (2024) The Power(lessness) of Flexibility in Public-Private Partnerships: Two Capital Projects from the National Capital Region? Project Management Journal, https://doi.org/10.1177/87569728241241301. 2024 PMI Donald S. Barrie Award
- Liu, Z., Guo, J., and Cui, Q. (2024). Product Upgrade Decision Under Uncertainty: Which Market Should Be Targeted? Managerial and Decision Economics, 45(7), 4649-4664
- Erfani, A., Cui, Q*, Baecher, G, and Kwak, Y (2023). Data-driven approach to risk identification: A common risk breakdown structure. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. vol. 71, pp. 6830-6841.
- Erfani, A. Ma, Z., Cui, Q. * , and Baecher, G. (2023). Ex-post Project Risk Assessment: Method and Empirical Study. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 149 (2) JCEM 2024 Best Paper Award
- Erfani, A. Hickey, P., and Cui, Q. * (2023) Likeability vs Competence Dilemma: A Text Mining Approach Using Linkedin Data. Journal of Management in Engineering.
- Zhang, K, Lan, T., Bao, W., Thrones, P.S.* and Cui, Q. * (2023). Blood Concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds among US Workers from Various Trades. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 65 (6), 458-466.
- Hickey, P., Erfani, A. and Cui, Q. * (2022) Use of LinkedIn Data and Machine Learning to Analyze Gender Differences in Construction Career Paths. Journal of Management in Engineering. 38(6) JME 2023 Best Paper Award