Fernanda Leite is a Professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She holds the John A. Focht Centennial Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering. She combines expertise in architectural engineering and computing in her modeling and built environment research, with strong management and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills. She is the past Chair of a University-wide Bridging Barriers research initiative called Planet Texas 2050. Most of her work has been in building and infrastructure systems information modeling, Scan-to-BIM, visualization and collaboration technologies, and circular economy in the built environment. At UT-Austin, Dr. Leite teaches courses on Building Information Modeling, Project Management and Economics, Construction Safety, and Sustainable Systems Engineering. She serves on the Faculty Council as well as the Presidential Sustainability Steering Committee.