Prof. Ümit Işıkdağ is currently working as a Professor of Construction Informatics at the Department of Architecture at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He worked as a senior researcher at Coventry University (2004), and the University of Central Lancashire (2013). He has a Civil Engineering BSc. degree from Balikesir University, an MSc. in Construction Informatics from the University of Greenwich in 1999, and a Ph.D. in Construction Informatics from the University of Salford in 2007. His current research interests are in Machine and Deep Learning, the Internet of Things, 3D GIS, BIM, and Structural Equation Modeling.