Rate My Professor Jonathan Shi

Jonathan Shi, holder of the Art E. Favre Industrial Construction Chair, is a professor in the Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management at Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 1995, M.Sc. from Wuhan University, China, in 1985, and B.Sc. from Wuhan University in 1982. Shi's career includes serving as Holland Professor at the University of Florida from 2011 to 2014, Professor and Chair at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 2008 to 2011, Professor and Director at Illinois Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2008, Associate Professor (tenured) at Illinois Institute of Technology from 2001 to 2007, and earlier roles at City University of Hong Kong from 1995 to 1999 and Wuhan University from 1985 to 1992. At LSU since 2014, he directs the Industrial Innovation Center and the Industrial Assessment Center.

His research interests include green technologies for building and community development, modeling and simulation of construction operations, project planning and scheduling, productivity analysis and improvement, artificial neural networks, enterprise resource planning, and computer applications. Key publications feature 'A synergetic model for implementing an integrated management system: an empirical study in China' (Journal of Cleaner Production, 2007, 678 citations), 'The relationship between corporate environmental performance and environmental disclosure: An empirical study in China' (Journal of Environmental Management, 2014, 367 citations), 'The impact of corporate environmental violation on shareholders' wealth: A perspective taken from media coverage' (Business Strategy and the Environment, 2016, 235 citations), and 'Modular neural networks for predicting settlements during tunneling' (Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 1998, 198 citations). Shi has obtained grants from the U.S. Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and National Science Foundation. He received the Worley Professor of Excellence Award in 2024 and was listed among the top engineering researchers in the Stanford/Elsevier study in 2021.