Our Team

Current Members

Dr. Brian Sheil

Group PI
Director of Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction
Laing O'Rourke Associate Professor in Construction Engineering
Co-founder & Chief Scientist at InfraMind

Email: bbs24@cam.ac.uk

 

  • Jessica Krishan, CSIC Engagement Lead

 

Research Assistant Professors and Postdoctoral researchers

  • Dr Olaf Wysocki – Computer vision for digital twins

  • Dr Yixiong Jing – AI for infrastructure

  • Dr Guangming Wang – Computer vision and intelligent robotics

  • Dr Jonathan Smith – Experimental research

  • Dr Marina Bortolotto – Experimental testing of polymer support  fluids

  • Dr Linjun Lu – Trustworthy digital twins

  • Mengtian Yin – Digital twins for roads

  • Danny Murguia – Construction productivity

  • Ashan Senel Asmone – Construction productivity

  • Zhengyang Ling – AI for construction productivity

  • Viviana Bastidas – Urban systems and infrastructure

  • Ruofei Wang – Ethics and safety of AI systems

  • Kristina Khutsishvili – decision-making with AI in connected places and cities

 

Research students

  • Nandeesh Babanagar, PhD – Physics-informed digital twins for basement construction

  • Malachi Philipson, MPhil – Physics-informed machine learning for microtunnelling

  • Haibing Wu, PhD – Deep learning and computer vision for underground reconstruction using ground penetrating radar

  • Xiaofang Wen, PhD – Digital twin design

  • Tao Xinghui, PhD – agentic AI for tunnel point cloud analysis

  • Anson Chan, PhD – Agentic AI for green retrofit

  • Asad Wadood, PhD – Real-time Smart pipe monitoring using digital twinning

  • Chenhong Zhang, PhD – LLMs for infrastructure maintenance

  • Maria Parisopolou, PhD – Physics-informed machine learning for foundation design

  • Daniel McNamara, PhD – Experimental testing of polymer support fluids

  • Rob Claridge, PhD – Future of work

  • Hugh Lo, MSt – A digital delay expert for construction

  • Susanna Taylor, MSt – AI for wastewater management

 

Research interns

  • Jiahao He – Physics-informed neural networks for ground penetrating radar

  • Qizhen Ying – Generalisable AI for intelligent robotics

  • Sean Deng – Neural radiance field for structural health monitoring

  • Wenhao Rao – Computer vision for ground penetrating radar

 

MEng research students

  • Zihan Yuan – Computer vision for infrastructure

 

Support staff

  • Cedric Kechavarzi, Laboratory Manager