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Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences

Worley Professor of Excellence Award

ASTM Young Professional in Additive Manufacturing Award

Automated Inspection in Robotic 3D Printing: In-Process Geometrical Measurements Using Structured Light Machine Vision

Neuromorphic Imaging for In-process Monitoring of Concrete 3D Printing

Machine learning approach to predict the early-age flexural strength of sensor-embedded 3D-printed structures

Automated strength monitoring of 3D printed structures via embedded sensors

LiDAR-based real-time geometrical inspection for large-scale additive manufacturing

3D printed sulfur-regolith concrete performance evaluation for waterless extraterrestrial robotic construction

Construction-Scale 3D Printing & Robotic Construction

Dr. Kazemian is Assistant Professor in the Bert S. Turner Department of Construction Management at LSU.

He specializes in construction automation and robotic construction-scale 3D printing, with groundbreaking applications in low-income housing, coastal protection, disaster relief, and extraterrestrial construction. He earned both his PhD in Civil Engineering (2018) and a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Before joining LSU in 2020, he spent three years as a senior R&D engineer at a robotic construction company, gaining valuable industry experience. A recognized leader in his field, Dr. Kazemian was named a Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences in 2024 and received the “ASTM Young Professional in Additive Manufacturing” Award in 2023. His innovative research has garnered widespread attention, with features in The New York Times, MIT Technology Review, and on Fox44 TV.

Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Robotic Construction

Construction Automation

Advanced Construction Materials

Construction-scale 3D Printing

Real-time Construction Quality Monitoring and Control

Reality Capture Technologies for Automated Construction Monitoring

LSU Faculty Profile

Kazemian Research Group (rəcast Lab)

Google Scholar Citations

Maybe in Your Lifetime, People Will Live on the Moon and Then Mars

The moon is just the beginning for this waterless concrete

NASA taps LSU for lunar construction research

How to permanently live on the Moon

Building on the Moon and Mars

Construction 3D Printing: Applications, Challenges, and Future Prospects (Invited Talk – selected as Darrell Elliott Lecture)

Intelligent and assistive motion capture interface to control robotic operations involving toolpath tracing

Planetary Robotic Construction on the Moon and Mars Using 3D Printed Waterless Concrete

Towards Sustainable Robotic Construction: Concrete 3D Printing with Quarry By-products and Low Portland Cement Content

ISRU-based Planetary Construction 3D Printing for Lunar and Martian Infrastructure Development: Process Optimization and Automated Quality Control

Assistant Professor & J.W. “Billy” and Janice Maxey Guitreau Professor

LSU Construction Management is teaming up with NASA researchers to inspect materials for extraterrestrial robot construction for NASA’s return to the moon in 2025.

LSU, NASA explores extraterrestrial robot construction for life on moon.

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