Shu Tang

Shu Tang

 

Shu Tang is a first-year Ph.D. student in Architecture Design Computation. She is conducting research in Digital Building Laboratory with Director Dr. Dennis R Shelden. Shu received her Bachelor and Master in Civil Engineering from University of Nottingham and Carnegie Mellon University. She previously worked for years in BIM consultancy companies as BIM Engineer. In the last two years, Shu has been conducting research and teaching at University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

Shu's current research is a systematic investigation of defining data interoperability requirements between smart building systems for the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Building Information Modeling (BIM). Researchers working in the IoT field are trying to extend the digital systems (the Internet and the Web) into the physical realm (the built environment, the transportation system, etc.) to enable a whole new class of applications and services.