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 |
- Zhang, Y., Tsegaye, N.T., and Cui, Q. (2026) AI-powered bridge defect detection and condition assessment using drone-collected visual data, Nature Communications Engineering. (accepted)
- Qin, R., Ali Mansouri, A, Zhen, D., Erfani, A., and Cui, Q* (2026) LLMs as Research Instruments for Problems in Engineering Management: A Context Modeling Framework, ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering, 42 (5), 04026029
- Zhang, K.; Shaheen, Q. and Cui, Q. (2026) Understanding Structured Project Finance for U.S. Transportation Public-Private Partnerships: What Maximizes Financing Capacity?, Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 1-18
- Zhen, D., Liu, Z., and Cui, Q.* (2026) Technology-Driven Career Advancement: How Emerging Technology Skills Shape Leadership Outcomes in the Construction Industry. ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering. 42 (5), 04026018.
- Wu, X., Liu, K., Zhen, D., Ji, Y., Shang, X., Cui, Q., & Xiong, C. (2026) Tradable Equity Credits (TECs) for public transit: a dynamic pricing approach for heterogeneous travelers, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 211, 104858
- Shaheen, Q. H.; Erfani, A., Mohammed, M.Y., Zhen, D., and Cui, Q.* (2026) ChatGPT as a Training Coach: Pattern-Specific Outcomes in Build America Buy America Act Training. ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering 42 (4), 04026012
- Zhang, K., Geddes, R.R., and Cui, Q. (2026) Comparing Public-Private Partnership with Traditional Delivery of Transportation Projects: A Duration Analysis. Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 29(1), 85–111
- Zhen, D., Wu, X, Liu, K, Ji, Y., Xiong, C., and Cui, Q.* (2026). Carbon Credits in Travel Demand Management: An Incentive-Based Framework for Emission Reduction. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 150(1), 105041
- Wu, X., Liu, K., Zhen, D., Ji, Y., Shang, X., Cui, Q., & Xiong, C. (2025). Tradable Equity Credits (TECs) and internalised revenue maximisation: a nonlinear programming model for promoting equitable public transit services. Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 1-29.
- Zhou, H., Cui, Q., Li, D., Ma, X., & Wang, W. (2025). Characteristic Analysis of Bidding Collusion in Construction Projects. Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 17(3), 04525025.
- Adnan, T., Erfani, A., & Cui, Q. (2025). Paving Equity: Unveiling Socioeconomic Patterns in Pavement Conditions Using Data Mining. ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering, 41(5), 04025041.
- Halimi, 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. 41(2)
- 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)