BFRL Staff Profiles / Materials and Construction Research Division

			Dr. Saidi is currently a Research Engineering Associate at UT and is assigned as a Guest Researcher to the National Institute of Standards and Technology with the Building and Fire Research Lab under a grant. His current research includes the development of the NIST Construction Automation Testbed. These efforts include the design and implementation of a robotic crane and various advanced sensing systems. Dr. Saidi also is involved in research aimed at establishing standards for the performance evaluation of 3D imaging systems. Dr. Saidi received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in 2002, where he focused on information technology at the construction site and construction automation systems. His research included the design and implementation of a tele-operated, hydraulic robot for the maintenance of electric power plant boilers (for which he is a co-inventor on a US patent). Dr. Saidi’s research also involved the design and implementation of a road crack sealing robot and a large scale manipulator (robot arm).
	Kamel Saidi Education University of Texas, Ph.D., Information Technology, 2002 Position Post-Doctoral Guest Researcher Construction Metrology and Automation Group Materials and Construction Research Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory

Information Last updated: 2/6/2008

Kamel Saidi