Janet Chang is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow in Innovative Training Networks.  She holds a Master of Studies (MSt) in Construction Engineering from the University of Cambridge. Ms. Chang also earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Industrial Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

With more than 20 years of experience in real estate planning, asset management, capital project planning and construction, Ms. Chang’s background offers a diverse portfolio of work for Fortune 500 companies including projects in global entertainment, government agencies, regulated utilities, education, healthcare and themed park.  In the last few years, Ms. Chang has been working as the Integrated Facility Program Planning Manager for the Walt Disney Company; her responsibilities include developing, maintaining and refining an integrated recurring capital investment plan for the Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California.  The annual capital investment plan ranges from $50MM to $80MM and provides the means to sustain existing assets via long term, multi-year and predictive maintenance approaches.

Ms. Chang's research is conducted in the framework of lifecycle data management of physical assets, using cloud-based Building Information Modeling (BIM).

Ms. Chang is a member of Queens’ College in the University of Cambridge, and her research supervised by Dr. Ajith Parlikad.