René Morkos
Inventor, Founder, CEO
About René
René Morkos, Ph.D. is an inventor, founder, adjunct professor at Stanford University, and CEO of ALICE Technologies. He is the inventor of the world’s first Generative Construction Simulator and Optimizer, obtaining his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence applications for construction as a Charles H. Leavell fellow at Stanford University, where he currently serves as an adjunct professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department. He is a second-generation civil engineer with over 23 years of experience in construction, divided between industry and academia. His operational experience includes working as a project manager in Afghanistan, underwater pipeline construction, automation engineering on a $350 million gas refinery expansion project in Abu Dhabi, ERP system implementations, and various Virtual Design and Construction projects.
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Morkos founded ALICE technologies, the world's first construction optioneering platform in 2015. He invented the World’s first Generative Construction Simulator that ingests BIM models and user-defined rule sets which then generates millions of valid simulations to build a project. ALICE’s mission is to reduce the cost of construction by 25% globally to improve standards of living by lowering infrastructure development costs.
Morkos attended Stanford University from 2009 to 2014 and was a Charles H. Leavell Fellow and Ph.D. candidate. Beginning in 2018, Morkos serves as an adjunct professor and lecturer at Stanford in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department. He is teaching a new breed of construction production management, using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other theories; changing how the problem of construction production management is both formulated and solved.
