Dr. Heung Jin Oh is an Assistant Professor in the Bowen School of Construction within the 鶹ƷInstitute at 鶹Ʒ and the director of Wii Lab, Worker-centric Intelligent Infrastructure. He completed his Ph.D. in Construction Management in the School of Building Construction and his M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before pursuing graduate studies, he worked at Midas IT, a global company specializing in CAD and CAE software development for the AEC industry.
At Wii Lab, Dr. Oh leads Smart and Sustainable Worker-centric Intelligence for Data-driven Evolution (S2-WIDE) in Construction. This research philosophy focuses on how construction workers, work, and physical environments evolve and interact with intelligent technologies. His research integrates Construction Workforce, Worker-centered AI, Spatial Computing, and Intelligent Infrastructure, drawing on large-scale workforce and industry data, construction knowledge, spatial sensing, statistical and computational methods, AI, and robotics. Through this work, he examines changing workforce demands and capabilities, model the information and contextual needs of construction work, develop intelligent systems that can perceive and reason about evolving physical environments.
In addition to research, Dr. Oh is deeply committed to teaching and mentoring the next generation of construction professionals. His teaching philosophy centers on fostering curiosity, encouraging hands-on learning, and building data-driven problem-solving skills so that students can grow as thoughtful, collaborative leaders and innovators who contribute to the future of the built environment and society.
If you are interested in joining Wii Lab, please feel free to contact me at oh367@purdue.edu. Please note that admission to the Ph.D. in Technology program requires both an English proficiency test score and a GRE score.
