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Mirosław J. Skibniewski holds his M. Eng. degree from the Warsaw University of Technology, as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.  Formerly a Professor and Associate Provost at Purdue University, he is currently a Professor of Civil Engineering and leader of the e-Construction Group in the Center of Excellence in Project Management at the University of Maryland. His research interests are in intelligent construction, information andcommunication technologies for construction project management, and in construction automation and robotics.  Prof. Skibniewski served as the Founding Dean of Engineering atKhalifa Universityin Abu Dhabi and as distinguished visiting/honorary/endowed chair professor and eminent scholar at the University of Maryland, Arizona State University, Chaoyang Universityof Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Hanyang University, National Universityof Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, University of Technology Sydney, CSIRO Australia, Loughborough University, Cardiff University, University of Central Lancashire, Aarhus University, Warsaw University of Technology, Cracow (Kraków) University of Technology, Moscow State Industrial University, and others.  He is an elected member of the National Academyof Construction (USA), member/foreign member of the Academy of Engineering in Poland, Russian Academy of Engineering, and a former Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK).  Among Prof. Skibniewski's honors are the USA National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator (later renamed as CAREER) Award, American Society of Civil Engineers' Walter L. Huber Research Prize, International Association of Automation and Robotics in Construction R. Tucker-Y. Hasegawa Award, as well as Humboldt and Fulbright Foundation grants for visiting appointments at the Technical University of Munich, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and at Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires.  A past President of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction, he is an author/coauthor of over 400 scholarly publications and several books, including Artificial Intelligence in Construction Engineering and Management published by Springer last year.  Since 1994 Prof. Skibniewski has been serving continuously as editor-in-chief of Automation in Construction, an international researchjournal published by Elsevier, and since 2018 as honorary co-editor-in-chief of Frontiers of Engineering Management published by Higher Education Press and Springer, sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Engineering.