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Jong Won Ma, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering


Jong Won Ma, Ph.D.
David Ward
Office: S-EV 6.401  
Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex,
1515 St. Catherine W.
Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext. 8074
Email: jongwon.ma@concordia.ca
Website(s): Concordia BCEE
Concordia BCEE-CEM
Availability: Construction Engineering and Project Management, Building Information Modeling, Digital Twin, Automation in Construction, Disaster Resilience, Sustainable Built Environment
ORCID: 0000-0001-5289-9183

Education

Ph.D., Construction Engineering and Project Management, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2022
M.S., Surveying and Geo-spatial Information System, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, 2018
B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, 2016


Teaching activities

BLDG6241 Building Information Modeling in Construction (Winter 2022-2023 & Fall 2023)


Research activities

Research interests

Scan-to-Building Information Modeling
Digital Twin
Advanced Work Packaging
Facility Management
Disaster Resilience
Construction Automation
Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence
Deep Learning
Geographical Information System/Surveying

Research Opportunities

Dr. Jong Won Ma is currently inviting applications for MS & PhD fully funded positions to study the topics centered around digital twinning of the industrial plants and automation in construction. Qualifications include research background in construction engineering and project management, strong programming skills (e.g., Python & Deep Learning libraries), and fluent written and oral communication skills in English. 

To apply for the position, please send a SINGLE pdf file to jongwon.ma at concordia.ca containing your latest CV, unofficial transcripts (BA & MS), English scores (TOEFL / GRE / IELTS), and a one-page statement outlining your motivation to pursue research with Dr. Jong Won Ma. Please use 'MS or PhD Applicant-First_name Last_name' as the subject line in the email.


Publications

Journal Papers

[J10] O’Connor, J. T.; Leite, F.; Ma, J.W.* (2022) “Expanding the Advanced Work Packaging Scope to include Commissioning and Startup for Industry Projects”, Construction Innovation
[J9] Ma, J.W.*; Leite, F. (2022) “Performance boosting of conventional deep learning-based semantic segmentation leveraging unsupervised clustering”, Automation in Construction
[J8] Ma, J.W.*; Czerniawski, T.; Leite, F. (2021) “An Application of Metadata-based Image Retrieval System for Facility Management”, Advanced Engineering Informatics
[J7] Han, B.; Ma, J.W.; Leite, F. (2021) “A Framework for Automatically Identifying Occluded Objects in 3D Models: Towards Comprehensive Construction Design Review in Virtual Reality”, Advanced Engineering Informatics
[J6] Ju, S.; Lim, H.; Ma, J.W.; Kim, S.; Lee, K.; Zhao, S.; Heo, J. (2021) “Optimal County-level Crop Yield Prediction Using MODIS-based Vegetation Indices and Weather Data: A Comparative Study on Machine Learning Models”, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
[J5] Czerniawski, T.; Ma, J.W.; Leite, F. (2021) “Automated Building Infrastructure Change Detection and Building Information Model Update”, Automation in Construction 
[J4] Ma, J.W.*; Czerniawski, T.; Leite, F. (2020) “Semantic Segmentation of Point Clouds of Building Interiors with Deep Learning: Augmenting Training Datasets with Synthetic BIM-based Point Clouds”, Automation in Construction
[J3] Ma, J.W.; Nguyen, C.H.; Lee, K.; Heo, J. (2019) “Regional-Scale Rice Yield Estimation Using Stacked Auto-encoder with Climatic and MODIS data: a case study of South Korea”, International Journal of Remote Sensing
[J2] Ma, J.W.; Lee, K.; Choi. K.; Heo, J. (2017) “Rice Yield Estimation of South Korea from Year 2003-2016 Using Stacked Sparse AutoEncoder”, Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
[J1] Ma, J.W.; Nguyen, C.H.; Lee, K.; Heo, J. (2016) “Convolutional Neural Networks for Rice Yield Estimation Using MODIS and Weather Data: A Case Study for South Korea”, Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography

Book Chapter

[B1] Ma, J.W.*, Czerniawski, T., Leite, F. (2022) "Automated Scan-to-BIM", Chapter in "Research Companion on Building Information Modeling", Wiley

Conference Papers

[C12] Ma, J.W.; Leite, F. (2023) “Synthetic Building Information Model Generation using Generative Design Approach”, In Proc., Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, CSCE, 2023.05.24-05.27
[C11] Alsuhaibani, A.; Ma, J.W.; Leite, F. (2023) “LivingBIM: As-designed and As-built Dataset for an Academic Building including BIM models, Point Clouds, and 360 Images”, International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, ASCE, 2023.06.25-06.28
[C10] Ma, J.W.; Lee, Y.; Leite, F. (2021) “A practical application using parametric modeling for as-built BIM generation from point clouds”, Construction Research Congress, ASCE, 2022.03.09-03.12
[C9] Ma, J.W.; Han, B.; Leite, F. (2021) “An Automated Framework for Generating Synthetic Point Clouds from As-built BIM with Synthetic Annotation for Scan-to-BIM”, In Proc., of the 2021 Winter Simulation Conference, IEEE, 2021.12.13-12.15 
[C8] Ma, J.W.; Leite, F. (2021) “Parallelization Strategies for Hierarchical Density-based Clustering Algorithm using OpenMP for Scan-to-BIM Applications”, In Proc., Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, CSCE, 2021.05.26-05.29 
[C7] Czerniawski, T.; Ma, J.W.; Leite, F. (2020) “Metadata-based Photo Filtering for Facility Management”, In 27th EG-ICE International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Berlin, Germany, 2020.07.01-07.04 (Virtual)
[C6] Ma, J.W.; Ju, S.; Nguyen. M.H.; Yun, S.B.; Yoon, S.; Heo, J. (2017) “Spatio-temporal Factor Analysis of Characterizing Mass Protest Events Using Taxi Trajectory in Seoul, Korea”, In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Analytics for Local Events and News, California, USA, 2017.11.07-11.10
[C5] Heo, J.; Chung, K.; Yoon, S.; Yun, S.; Ma, J.W.; Ju, S. (2017) “Spatial-Data-Driven Student Characterization in Higher Education”, In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Prediction of Human Mobility, California, USA, 2017.11.07-11.10
[C4] Ma, J.W.; Nguyen, C.H.; Lee, K.; Heo, J. (2017) “Rice Yield Estimation for South Korea by Stacked Sparse Autoencoders with Climatic and MODIS data”, International Symposium on Remote Sensing 2017, Nagoya, Japan, 2017.05.17-05.19
[C3] Heo, J.; Yoon, S.; Oh, W.S.; Ma, J.W.; Ju, S.; Yun, S.B. (2016) “Spatial Computing Goes to Education and Beyond: Can Semantic Trajectory Characterize Students?”, In Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Analytics for Big Geospatial Data, California, USA, 2016.10.31
[C2] Yun, S.B.; Yoon, S.H.; Ju, S.; Oh, W.S.; Ma, J.W.; Heo, J. (2016) “Taxi cab service optimization using spatio-temporal implementation to hot-spot analysis with taxi trajectories: a case study in Seoul, Korea”, In Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems, California, USA, 2016.10.31
[C1] Ma, J.W.; Nguyen, C.H.; Heo, J. (2016) “Detecting Error Samples in National Forest Inventory by using Genetic Algorithm for Carbon Stock Estimation”, International Symposium on Remote Sensing 2016, Jeju, Korea, 2016.04.20-04.22

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