Dr Gan is an Assistant Professor at College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore. He is currently leading the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Built Environment (RAIS4BE) Lab and serves as the Director of Centre for Digital Building Technology. He is a Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), a Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and an Editor of Developments in the Built Environment (Elsevier).

He was listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University / Elsevier (Career-long; Single-year 2023–2025). He served as the PI and Co-PI of several research grants from National Research Foundation through AISG Programme, Singapore Land Transport Authority (through Land Transport Innovation Fund), Public Utilities Board (through Coastal Protection and Flood Management Research Programme). He has published more than 90 papers in international journals including Automation in Construction, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Applied Energy and Advanced Engineering Informatics, as well as in major conferences like International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction and the International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering, and his works has been cited by 6,200+ times. His research has resulted in multiple invention disclosures, which have been deployed in scanning and digitalisation of infrastructure, demonstrating research and translational impact. Dr Gan is dedicated to developing innovative pedagogy for teaching digital building technologies and has been recognised with College Teaching Excellence Award at NUS.

Appointments and Professional Affiliations

• Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

  World’s Top 2% Scientist (Stanford/Elsevier, Career-long; Single-year 2023-2025)

  CDE Teaching Excellence Award (AY22/23, AY23/24, AY24/25)

  Director, Centre for Digital Building Technology (7.2025 – Present)

  Deputy Director, Centre for 5G Digital Building Technology (2.2023 – 6.2025)

• Editor, Developments in the Built Environment (Elsevier; IF: 8.7)

• Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

  Member, Robotics and Automation Society

  Member, Technology and Engineering Management Society

• Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

  Member, Visualisation, Information Modelling and Simulation Committee

  Member, Data Sensing and Analysis Committee (2023)

• Guest Lecturer, University College London

  Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction

• Research Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Interests

• Building Robotics

• Laser Scanning

• Building Information Modelling

• Scan-to-BIM

• Computational Design