LabCompass

Hubo Cai

Engineering · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Mid career · publishing since 2003
BIM and Construction IntegrationInfrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring3D Surveying and Cultural HeritageOccupational Health and Safety Research3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications

Publications

159

Citations

3,337

Est. group size

~4

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

24

Publishing since 2003

Research summary
AI-generated

Hubo Cai works on applying computing and sensing technologies to civil infrastructure and construction problems, including building information modeling (BIM), underground utility mapping with ground-penetrating radar (GPR), robotic localization and mapping (SLAM) on construction sites, and wearable sensors (EEG) for identifying safety hazards. The work generally combines data from cameras, radar, or brain-monitoring devices with machine learning and graph-based methods to improve how infrastructure is inspected, modeled, and made safer to build and maintain.

Construction site sensing and robotics (SLAM, cameras)Underground utility and infrastructure mapping (GPR)Building Information Modeling (BIM) automationConstruction safety and hazard detection using wearable sensorsMachine learning for civil infrastructure data

Publication output has gradually declined from around 12-14 papers per year a decade ago to roughly 5-8 per year in recent years, suggesting a slowing but still active and steady output.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.0/year recently
2017: 14 publications14172018: 11 publications182019: 12 publications192020: 12 publications202021: 9 publications212022: 6 publications222023: 8 publications232024: 5 publications242025: 5 publications252026: 6 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering×13
  • Automation in Construction×9
  • Journal of Construction Engineering and Management×8
  • Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board×6
  • Advanced Engineering Informatics×5
Similar researchers
By research-topic overlap

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

Claim or correct this profile