Our Team

Current Members

Professor Brian Sheil
Group PI

Professor Brian Sheil

  • Ward & Burke Established Professor & Co-Director, CIRI
  • Research Professor & EPSRC Open Fellow, University of Cambridge
  • Co-founder & Chief Scientist, InfraMind

brian.b.sheil@universityofgalway.ie · bbs24@cam.ac.uk · brian@inframindlabs.com

Assistant Professors & Postdoctoral Research Associates

10

Research Students

16

PhD, MRes and MPhil researchers across Cambridge and CIRI.

Wanru YangCambridge

Wanru Yang

PhD Candidate

Physics-based synthetic data and domain adaptation for tunnel point clouds

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Nandeesh BabanagarCambridge

Nandeesh Babanagar

PhD Researcher

Physics-informed digital twins for basement construction

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Haibing WuCambridge

Haibing Wu

PhD Candidate

Deep learning and computer vision for GPR-based underground reconstruction

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Xiaofang (Wennie) WenCambridge

Xiaofang (Wennie) Wen

PhD Candidate

Physics-informed AI for crack prediction and road digital twins

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Xinghui TaoCambridge

Xinghui Tao

PhD Candidate

Agentic AI for tunnel point cloud analysis

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Anson Tsz Kwan ChanCambridge

Anson Tsz Kwan Chan

PhD Candidate

Agentic AI for green retrofit

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Chenhong ZhangCambridge

Chenhong Zhang

PhD Candidate

Computer vision for infrastructure maintenance

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Maria ParisopoulouCambridge

Maria Parisopoulou

MRes/PhD Candidate

Physics-informed machine learning for scour prediction

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Robert ClaridgeCambridge

Robert Claridge

PhD Candidate

Future of work in construction

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Shen ZhangCIRI

Shen Zhang

PhD Researcher

GPR-based subsurface imaging: antenna modelling, calibration and inversion

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Xingyuan ChenCambridge

Xingyuan Chen

PhD Candidate

Physics-based digital twins and deformable object modelling for robotic manipulation

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Zhishuo LiuCambridge

Zhishuo Liu

PhD Candidate

Generalisable AI for autonomous cranes

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Samuel GraceCambridge

Samuel Grace

MRes/PhD Candidate

SLAM for autonomous tunnel navigation and inspection

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Jingfeng MaoCambridge

Jingfeng Mao

PhD Candidate

Computer vision

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Yunwen WangCIRI

Yunwen Wang

PhD Candidate

Physical AI for dynamical systems

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Carlos Laguna SánchezCambridge

Carlos Laguna Sánchez

MPhil Student

Simulators and robotics for autonomous construction

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Support Staff

1

Research Interns & ME Students

5
Sean DengCambridge

Research Intern · Physics-informed machine learning for ground penetrating radar

Frankie DayCIRI

ME Student · Subsurface imaging using ground penetrating radar

Martin CulletonCIRI

ME Student · Subsurface imaging using ground penetrating radar

Katie BroderickCIRI

ME Student · Computer vision for construction productivity tracking from CCTV

James GarveyCIRI

ME Student · Computer vision for construction productivity tracking from CCTV

Visitors

5
Xiaonan ZhangCambridge

Structural health monitoring using fibre optics & AI

Lynne QiCambridge

AI for project management

Dongliang ZhangCambridge

Digital twins for tunnels

Chenxi YaoCIRI & Cambridge

Generalisable AI for robotics

Han ZhaoCIRI & Cambridge

Tunnel point cloud analysis

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We are always keen to hear from talented PhD students, postdocs and visitors.

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