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LOC Scholarships

Thanks to years of generous donations from Gertrud Obermeyer, the Leonhard Obermeyer Center is able to offer scholarships. The thereby enabled scholarships are presented below.

Stefan Fuchs

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Name of the scholar:Stefan Fuchs
Name of the scholarship:LOC PostDoc Stipendium
Duration:1. November 2024 - 31. October 2026

Stefan Fuchs will start his postdoctoral research at the LOC in November 2024. He is currently a PhD student at the School of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, under the supervision of Prof Robert Amor, Prof Michael Witbrock and Dr Johannes Dimyadi, and will complete his doctorate in October 2024. He completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at OTH Regensburg. During two years of professional experience as a software architect, Stefan developed a strong interest in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning. His PhD thesis focusses on the use of state-of-the-art neural networks for the interpretation of building regulations to make them applicable for automated compliance checking. During his postdoc at TUM, Stefan plans to expand his expertise in Large Language Models, especially in the context of Building Information Modelling and the creation of a fully automated compliance checking workflow.

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

  • Automated Compliance Checking
  • Large Language Models
  • Code compliance
  • Building Information Modelling

Ihab H. Hijazi Ph.D.

Name of the scholar: Ihab H. Hijazi, Ph.D. – Associate Professor
Name of the scholarship: LOC PostDoc Stipendium
Duration: 1. January 2022 - 31. December 2023

 

Dr. Hijazi is associate professor of Geographic Information Science at Planning Cities Technologies Engineering Department, An-Najah National University in Palestine. Also, he is a senior scientist at the chair of Geoinforamtion – Chair of Prof Thomas Kolbe at Technical University of Munich. Dr Hijazi has a B.Sc. in Architectural Engineering and a Diploma in City Planning, He holds M.Sc. and Phd. in Geoinformation from University of Redlands in California and University of Osnabrueck in Germany. He worked as a postdoc scholar at the chair of information architecture, ETH Zurich. Dr Hijazi was a researcher at ESRI – the world leader in GIS and the Institute for Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (IGF) at the University of Osnabrueck in Germany. His research focused on the BIM/GIS integration methods and approaches. Also, the linking of urban simulation tools and 3D City modes. He published more than 60 papers. Dr Hijazi recently joined the LOC as a senior scientist funded through a LOC scholarship.

Research focus:

  • BIM-GIS Integration
  • Urban Information models
  • Urban Simulation and Urban Information Models

Dr. Rohit K. Dubey

Name of the scholar: Dr. Rohit K. Dubey
Name of the scholarship: LOC PostDoc scholarship
Duration: 1. October 2020 - 30.September 2022

 

Dr. Rohit K. Dubey has recently joined the LOC as postdoctoral research funded through a LOC scholarship. Rohit received his Ph.D. from the Department of Informatics at ETH Zurich in 2020 under the guidance of Asst Prof. Dr. Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research, Zurich), Prof. Christoph Hoelscher (D-GESS, ETH Zurich), and Asst. Prof. Dr. Mubbasir Kapadia (Computer Science, Rutgers University). His Ph.D. research focused on the cognitive modeling of information sources for human wayfinding under uncertainty. Rohit is currently developing a cognitively grounded computational framework of microscopic pedestrian crowd simulation that models the uncertainty and fusion of potentially multiple conflicting information sources for wayfinding decision-making during general circulation and egress.

Research focus:

  • Computational cognition
  • Pedestrian simulation
  • Multivariate information fusion for human decision-making
  • Human-building interaction
  • CAAD

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Fritz Beck M.Sc.

Name of the scholar: Fritz Beck M.Sc
Name of the scholarship: Gertrud-Obermeyer scholarship
Duration: 1. June 2019 - 31.May 2022

 

In 2019, Fritz Beck completed the M.Sc. in civil engineering at TU Munich. Afterwards, he received the Gertrud-Obermeyer scholarship from Leonhard-Obermeyer Center to support his Ph.D. plans. The Ph.D. is supervised by Prof. Borrmann and Prof. Kolbe and focuses on the integration of heterogeneous information models from the domains BIM and GIS, which is often referenced by the keywords "BIM-GIS Integration" or "GeoBIM". In particular, Fritz Beck aims to improve this kind of integration by means of interlinking information using Semantic Web technologies and investigates the context-dependency of the resulting links. 

Research focus:

  • BIM-GIS Integration
  • GeoBIM
  • Semantic Web technologies
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