Yuhan Jiang

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2025/6/5 Dr. Jiang's research project funded by Yale 2025 Collaboration Grant.

2025/3/21 Dr. Jiang has been named NC A&T's 2024-25 Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award

2025/1/15 Dr. Jiang presented LEGO Cobot at the SCA College and Career Day

2024/9/14 Dr. Jiang and students won 1st Place at the 2024 AAAS HBCU Making and Innovation Showcase in Washington, D.C

2024/4/11 Dr. Jiang won the ASCE Journal of Architectural Engineering Best Paper Award.

2024/4/3 Dr. Jiang has been named NC A&T’s 2024 Rookie Researcher of the Year.

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Yuhan Jiang, Ph.D.

Founding Director, CIAHSC

Assistant Professor, Built Environment

North Carolina A&T State University

E-mail: yjiang@ncat.edu

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Funded Projects

HUD Center of Excellence for Innovation in Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities, PI/PD, $2.5 Million

Planning: Using Emerging Technologies for Increasing Student Enrollment and Learning in Infrastructure and Building Construction Technology at HBCUs, PI, $99,999

I-Corps: Automated As-is Façade Modeling of High-rise Buildings Using Drones and Artificial Intelligence, Co-PI with Yong Bai, PI at MU, $50,000

Accelerated Highway Construction Data Skill Training with Simulator-Based Learning and Generative AI Integration, Co-PI with Pingbo Tang, PI at CMU, $300,000

Developing an Open-Source On-Screen Interactive Guide (OSIG) Prototype to Promote Practical Hands-on Learning Experiences on Building Information Modeling, PI, $125,000

Enhancing Low-Income, Manufactured Housing Community Quality in Guilford County, North Carolina, by Applying Artificial Intelligence-Based Built Environment Characterization, PI, $25,000
Examining the Influence of Social Network on Public’s Reactions toward Corporate Social Advocacy Using Survey Studies and AI Technology of Natural Language Processing, Co-PI with Xueying Zhang, PI, $25,000
Digitalizing Stormwater Infrastructure Systems in Disadvantaged Communities Using Reality Capture, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Twin, PI, $25,000
Mixed-Reality Collaborating Platform on Identifying and Observing Spatial Inequality at Urban-Campus Negative Spaces, Co-PI with Shuva Chowdhury, PI, $25,000
Using iPad and 3D Simulation Technologies for Engaged Student Learning in CM 214/224 Surveying/Lab, PI, $1,500

Research Interests

Digital Twin for Built Environment

Drone / Robotics
Computer Vision / Photogrammetry / LiDAR
Edge AI / Machine Learning / Deep Learning
AR / VR and As-built CAD / BIM

Facility Management

Drone / Robotics
Machine Learning / Deep Learning
AR / VR and As-is CAD / BIM
System Dynamics / Multi-agent Simulation

Infrastructure Management

Satellite / Aerial Imagery / LiDAR
GIS+BIM Integration
Machine Learning / Deep Learning
Engineering Reliability / System Dynamics

Selected Publications

Han, S., Jiang, Y., Huang, Y., Bai, Y., Wang, M., and Spool-White A. (2023). “Scan2Drawing: Use of Deep Learning to As-Built Model Landscape Architecture.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 149 (5), DOI: 10.1061/JCEMD4.COENG-13077.
Jiang, Y., Han, S., and Bai, Y. (2022). “Scan4Façade: Automated As-Is Façade Modeling of Historic High-Rise Buildings Using Drones and AI.” ASCE Journal of Architectural Engineering, 28(4), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)AE.1943-5568.0000564. Best Paper Award
Han, S., Jiang, Y., and Bai, Y. (2022). “Fast-PGMED: Fast and Dense Elevation Determination for Earthwork Using Drone and Deep Learning.” ASCE Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, 148(4), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0002256. Editor’s Choice
Jiang, Y., Han, S., and Bai, Y. (2021). “Building and Infrastructure Defect Detection and Visualization Using Drone and Deep Learning Technologies." ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 35(6), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0001652.
Jiang, Y., Bai, Y., and Han, S. (2020). “Determining Ground Elevations Covered by Vegetation on Construction Sites Using Drone-Based Orthoimage and Convolutional Neural Network.” ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 34(6), DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)CP.1943-5487.0000930.

Honors and Awards

N.C. A&T and CoST Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award 2024-25

N.C. A&T and CoST Rookie Researcher of the Year Award 2024

ASCE Journal of Architectural Engineering Best Paper Award 2022

ASCE CI & CRC Joint Conference Best Paper Per CRC Track, Track 3: Computer Applications, Information Modeling, and Simulation 2024

AAAS HBCU Making and Innovation Showcase Pitch Competition 1st Place in 2024

CoST SciTech Week Innovation Challenge 1st Place in 2023, 3rd Place in 2024 & 1 of 5 finalists in 2025

N.C. A&T Provost’s Faculty Fellow 2023 & 2024

N.C. A&T Apple iPad Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award 2023

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