Current Members
Dr. Brian Sheil
Group PI
Ward & Burke Established Professor @ CIRI
Co-Director of CIRI
Research Professor @ Cambridge
EPSRC Open Fellow
Co-founder & Chief Scientist at InfraMind
Ward & Burke Established Professor @ CIRI
Co-Director of CIRI
Research Professor @ Cambridge
EPSRC Open Fellow
Co-founder & Chief Scientist at InfraMind
Cambridge Lab
- 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
- Wanru Yang, PhD – Physics-based synthetic data simulation & domain adaptation for tunnel point cloud segmentation
- 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 Students
- Zihan Yuan – Computer vision for infrastructure
Support Staff
- Cedric Kechavarzi, Laboratory Manager