Fernanda Leite

Dr. Fernanda Leite is an Associate Professor in the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds the Mrs. Pearlie Dashiell Henderson Centennial Fellowship in Engineering. She has a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, from Carnegie Mellon University. Her technical interests include building and civil information modeling, and collaboration and coordination technologies. Dr. Leite teaches courses on Building Information Modeling, Project Management and Economics, and Sustainable Systems Engineering. Her funded research projects have focused on building and civil information modeling; 3D modeling for construction planning; autonomous 3D model generation; and virtual reality.