Our Team

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