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Cui, Qingbin

Cui, Qingbin

Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Maryland Energy Innovation Institute
1157 Glenn. L. Martin Hall

EDUCATION

  • 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

STUDENT ADVISING (PhD)

Deepak Sharma, 2012

 

Design of Availability Payment Mechanism for Public Private Partnerships

Associate Professor at the California State University, Fullerton

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

Shu-Chien (Mark) Hsu, 2013

A Complexity-based Approach to Team Selection ( co-chair with Mirek Skibniewski)

Associate Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Xinyuan Zhu, 2014

Offtake Strategy Design for Wind Energy Projects under Uncertainty

Senior Strategist at Boeing Company

Morteza Farajian, 2015

Structured Finance in Public Private Partnership Projects

Executive Director of Build America Bureau at USDOT

Soumajit  Ghosh, 2016

IT Project in Non-Profit Universities: A Project Governance Perspective

North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts

Clara M Cheung2017

The antecedents of safety leadership

Lecture (Assistant Professor) at University of Manchester, UK

Xiaoyu Liu, 2017

The Trouble with Voluntary Carbon Trading for Buildings Exposed to Hurricane Risk

Senior Risk Analyst, Capital One

Qinyi Ding, 2018

Using Social Media to Evaluate Public Acceptance of Infrastructure Projects

Senior Data Engineer at Amazon Web Services

Yujie Lu2018

Occupant Behavior in Building Energy Management: Behavioral Characterization, Intervention and Forecasting

Professor at Tongji University

Paul Hichey, 2023

A Study of Gender Diversity in US AEC Industry Leadership

Entrepreneur/StealthEnomics

AbdolMajid Erfani, 2023

Data-Driven Risk Modeling for Infrastructure Projects Using AI

Assistant Professor at Michigan Tech

Cheryl Marek, 2023

Fire Risk Management in Shipbuilding Procurement

 

Kunqi Zhang, 2024

Examination of US Transportation Public Private Partnership Experience: Performance and Market

 

Yu Wang, 2024

Towards Automated Contract Analysis: Applying Language Models to Risk Identification in the Context of Public Private Partnership

Assistance Professor at Lingnan University

Man Liang

Digital Twins for Asset Management

Expected 2025

Nour Alkhalouf

Equity-based Infrastructure Analysis

Expected 2025

Moyassar Mohammed

Crowd Intelligence for BIL Implementation

Expected 2026

Zahra Halimi

TBD

Expected 2026

Qadri Shaheen

TBD

Expected 2027

Dongyang Zhen

TBD

Expected 2027

Abubakr M. Hamid TBD Expected 2027
Richard Blanton TBD Expected 2028
Niping Duan TBD Expected 2028
Huan Zhou TBD Expected 2028

 

  • 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