Ruoxin Xiong
Assistant Professor, Construction Management, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Kent State University
I am an Assistant Professor of Construction Management in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Kent State University.
My research focuses on advancing the reliability, sustainability, and resilience of construction and infrastructure systems through AI, digital twins, and open science. I am especially interested in building knowledge cyberinfrastructure and human-centered AI methods that support safer, smarter, and more trustworthy AEC practice.
Current directions include:
- Automating digital twins of construction and infrastructure operations with multi-modal sensing, vision, and data processing technologies.
- Scaling AI for the built environment by combining machine learning systems, human expertise, and reusable digital assets.
- Promoting reliable, equitable, and resilient operations under uncertainty through data-driven and human-centered decision support.
Featured Open Work
One of the central threads of this work is building open knowledge infrastructure for the AEC community. Through OpenConstruction and related open-source educational efforts, collaborators across institutions are working to make datasets, benchmarks, workflows, and teaching materials more reusable, transparent, and accessible.
- OpenConstruction Initiative: open science infrastructure for sustainable digital asset sharing and reuse in AEC.
- OpenConstruction website: public-facing hub for the initiative and its community resources.
- OpenConstruction Datasets: curated open datasets for AI-driven construction monitoring research.
- AI in Construction course website: open-access teaching materials for CMGT-40095/50095 at Kent State University.
You can explore my research, publications, teaching, and contact information through the navigation bar above.
news
| Mar 25, 2026 |  Speaking at the AI in Construction Workshop about Preparing the Built Environment for AI: The Role of Open Knowledge Cyberinfrastructure at CI&CRC 2026. |
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| Mar 22, 2026 |  I launched a dedicated website for my open-source course AI in Construction (CMGT-40095/50095) at Kent State University to make the materials easier to navigate and share. Explore it here: https://ruoxinx.github.io/CMGT-40095-50095/ |
| Mar 22, 2026 |  Excited to share our new paper, Toward open science in the AEC community: An ecosystem for sustainable digital assets sharing and reuse, published in Developments in the Built Environment. This work reflects a meaningful collaboration across KSU, LSU, UIUC, UTSA, RIT, CMU, and NAC. |
| Jan 30, 2026 | Excited to share our new paper Socio-technical assessment of generative AI integration in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) workflows: An empirical study using O*NET occupational taxonomy in Advanced Engineering Informatics, where we present an empirical study on how generative AI is being considered across AEC occupations. |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Excited to share our new paper OpenConstruction: A Systematic Synthesis of Open Visual Datasets for Data-Centric AI in Construction Monitoring, where we introduce an open-source catalog of datasets and outline a roadmap for advancing AI-driven construction monitoring. Check catalog website here |
| Jun 23, 2025 | 🚀 Call for Submissions! Contribute to our research topic “AI Foundation Models and Knowledge Engineering for Smart Construction and Infrastructure Systems” in Frontiers in Built Environment (CiteScore: 4.3) |
| Apr 11, 2025 |  Thrilled to share that I have been selected for the Farris Family Innovation Award, which will support my research for the next three years. I sincerely appreciate the generosity of the Farris family in fostering faculty development and advancing scholarly work. |
| Apr 05, 2025 | Excited to share our latest work on Can large language models support construction management tasks and education. Grateful to work with Professors Yanyu Wang, Suat Günhan, Yimin Zhu, Charles Berryman on this! |