Career Summary
Dr. Anumba is Department Head and Professor of Architectural Engineering at Penn State University. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (the UK’s National Academy of Engineering), he graduated at 18 with a First Class Honours degree in Building and worked as a Project Engineer and as a Design Engineer before undertaking postgraduate research in Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds, UK. On completion of his Ph.D. in 1989, he joined Curtins Consulting Engineers plc, and was involved in a wide range of civil and structural engineering projects as an Engineer/Senior Engineer. This was followed by a period as a Senior Lecturer and Reader (i.e. Research Professor) in Computer-Aided Engineering at the University of Teesside, UK. He moved to Loughborough University (UK) in 1998 and was founding Director of the Centre for Innovative and Collaborative Engineering (CICE) and Professor of Construction Engineering & Informatics until December 2007. He is a past Chair of the European Group for Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE) and has been on the governing Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). His research interests are in the fields of construction engineering, advanced engineering informatics, concurrent engineering, knowledge management, collaborative communications, and project management. He has over 450 publications in these fields. Professor Anumba’s research has received support worth over $150m from industry, The National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy (DOE), National Institutes for Health (NIH), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC, UK), The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI, UK) and a variety of national and international agencies. In addition, he has supervised 40 doctoral graduates and mentored over 20 postdoctoral scholars. Professor Anumba also undertakes advisory and consultancy work for government departments and several firms, and is Co-Editor of the Journal of IT in Construction (ITCon). He has won several awards for his work and has been (or is) a Visiting Professor/Scholar at more than 10 universities in N. America, Europe, Asia and Africa – including MIT, Stanford and Tsinghua. In 2003, Professor Anumba founded Fanest Business Intelligence Ltd, a technology-based start-up company. In recognition of his substantial and sustained original contributions to the field of Construction Engineering and Informatics, Professor Anumba was awarded the higher doctorate degree of Doctor of Science, D.Sc. (comparable to Distinguished Professor status), by Loughborough University in July 2006. In January 2007, he was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.) by Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands for outstanding scientific contributions to Building and Construction Engineering.