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Dr. Long Nguyen is a Professor and Chair of the Stock Development Department of Construction Management at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). Before joining FGCU, he worked as a construction consultant at Jax Kneppers Associates, Inc. in Walnut Creek, California and the deputy director of Tuan Le Construction. He is a professional engineer registered in California. He earned M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, M.Eng. in Construction Engineering and Management from the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), and B.Eng. in Civil Engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. His current teaching and research interests include project planning and controls, quantitative methods in construction, and resilient and sustainable built environment.

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Zofia K. Rybkowski, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Construction Science of the School of Architecture at Texas A&M University. She holds degrees from Stanford, Brown, Harvard, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and UC Berkeley, where she earned a PhD. Her interdisciplinary background, which includes biology (MS, BS), architecture (MArch), and civil engineering (PhD, MS, MPhil) facilitates systems-level research intersecting disciplinary boundaries. She specializes in implementing Lean-Integrated Project Delivery / Target Value Design simulation gaming tools to effectively address complex, multidisciplinary challenges, and has delivered a TEDx talk about illuminating lean efficiency principles and aligning multidisciplinary teams toward common goals. For her research in interdisciplinary systems thinking, Dr. Rybkowski has been awarded the J. Thomas Regan Interdisciplinary Faculty Prize, the Harold L. Adams Interdisciplinary Professorship in Construction Science, and in 2019 was named by Texas A&M as a prestigious Presidential Impact Fellow. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Associated General Contractors (AGC) Education and Research Foundation, and as a member of the Lean in the Public Sector (LIPS) Steering Committee. She has been invited to serve as keynote speaker at conferences in Sweden, Korea, India, Hong Kong, and throughout the US. Dr. Rybkowski has been the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and is a legacy LEED AP.

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Anh D. Chau is currently an instructor at the Stock Development Department of Construction Management at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). Prior to his arrival at FGCU, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. He completed his Ph.D. and M.S. in civil engineering with a concentration in construction and project management at the University of Alabama, following his Bachelor of Engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology His expertise encompasses quantitative methods in civil engineering and construction management. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in the state of Florida and holds certifications as a Project Management Professional (PMP), a LEED AP BD+C, and an Associate Design-Build Professional.

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Daniel Linares is Assistant Professor at the Stock Development Department of Construction Management at Florida Gulf Coast University. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning with an emphasis in Smart Construction and the Smart Built Environment, an M.Eng. in Computer Science with an emphasis in HCI, and an M.S. in Civil Engineering with an emphasis in Construction Engineering and Management, from Virginia Tech. His research work focuses on investigating ways to improve workers' productivity and developing systems to implement those improvements in challenging environments such as industrial and construction applications. His research currently focuses on technologies such as voice agents and Augmented Reality systems to provide multi-modal solutions to address activity support and knowledge delivery during scenarios with significant cognitive loads. He also is working towards technology developments in the construction industry such as smart construction, cyber-physical systems, BIM Management, and Data Analysis. His teaching experiences include IT in Design and Construction, BIM, Scheduling and Project Controls, Graphical Communication, and Virtual Design and Construction. He has been awarded the Fulbright Scholarship, the AGC Faculty Fellowship, and is currently the Microsoft Fellow for the TechSpark Immokalee in Florida.

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