Bios for December 2024 Faculty Senate Executive Committee Election:
CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER
Name: JAMIE REIMER
Department: GLENN KORFF SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Title: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Years at UNL: 16
Graduate Faculty Status: Graduate Faculty
Teaching/Extension Interests: Vocal Performance
Research Specialization: music by African American composers; music by women composers
UNL Activities: Academic Rights & Responsibilities Committee (2024-26), Glenn Korff School of Music Graduate Committee (2014 – present), Chancellor’s Commission on the Status of Women (2022-2025), Research Council (2017-2020; chair 2018-2020)
Statement of Intent: As both a tenured faculty member and a graduate of UNL, I have a deep commitment to the success of this university. I look forward to representing the faculty to university leadership and using my talents in organization and communication to further the academic accomplishments of my colleagues and their students.
CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBER
Name: Zhigang Shen
Department: Construction Engineering and Management
Title: Professor
Years at UNL: 17 Years
Graduate Faculty Status: Yes
Teaching/Extension Interests: 3D modeling of Buildings and Civil Infrastructure
Research Specialization: Image-based 3D reconstruction, computer vision, UAV. Construction Product and Process modeling, Virtual Reality
UNL Activities: Faculty senate, Research Council, Lab fee committee, Durham School Graduate committee, 2024-2025 Cohort of UNL FLAIR, and Mashal Corp.
Statement of Intent:
He has been working as a faculty member since 2007 starting as an assistant professor at the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction of College of Engineering. Being able to join the faculty senate executive committee will enable me to have a broader view of the institution that I served over the last 17 years, and I anticipate the new role will allow me to better represent the interest of the faculty body of UNL.
He had 6 years industry experience before joining the academia. My academic experience includes being an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, a visiting Associate Professor at New York University, and an Assistant/ Associate/Full Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He was awarded more than $1.3M research grants including both federal and state research fund. He also chaired 5 PhDs who are all faculty members in major research institutions. His research outcomes were featured in international, national and regional medias multiple times. He has two pending patents, which were reported by Nebraska Today. His work in computer vision and robotics were widely cited in the construction automation areas.
He was 2002 UNL Outstanding Postdoc Mentor Award recipient, he won the 2020-2021, 2019-2020 Excellent in Research at College of Engineering awards. He has been serving as reviewers of more than 30 journals, and won the honor of outstanding reviewers twice.
He taught an average of two classes with an average of 50 students per semester since joining UNL in 2007. His teaching has been focused on construction cost estimating and 3D BIM modeling.