Welcome to Dr. Yelda Turkan’s Homepage!

Dr. Turkan is an assistant professor in the School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Oregon State University. She holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada. She holds BS degrees (double major) in Civil Engineering and Geomatics Engineering, as well as a MS degree in Remote Sensing, all from Istanbul Technical University. Dr. Turkan’s research interests and experience are centered on the areas of remote sensing, and information technology (IT) applications for construction engineering and management, and resilient Built Environment. She leverages tools such as BIM, lidar, augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) to innovate planning, monitoring and controlling construction operations, and improve decision making in the Built Environment. She leads a research team conducting research in automation and IT in construction domain, and has several ongoing funded research projects. Dr. Turkan is the vice president of the International Association for Automation and Robotics for Construction (IAARC). She also serves as the chair of the ASCE Computing Division Education Committee.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EdUsMccAAAAJ&hl=en

NSF Convergence Accelerator Project website: http://research.engr.oregonstate.edu/deep-reality/

In the news: https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/oregon-state-researchers-working-better-faster-way-design-and-maintain-buildings