DRF Lunchtime Clinic - Prof Burcu Akinci

We are honoured to be joined on Friday 15th November by Prof Burcu Akinci, Paul Christiano University Professor and department head of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Prof Akinci will be speaking on Digital Twins and AI towards Autonomy of the Built Environment 

This presentation will provide an overview of interdisciplinary research and education being done at Carnegie Mellon University in development of digital twins, coupled with AI, in support of enabling autonomy in the built environment.  It will provide specific research examples that highlight the significance of OODA (observe, orientate, decide and act) loop coupled with digital twins in enabling proactive operations and management of facilities and infrastructure systems. 

Prof. Akinci’s research interests includes modeling and reasoning about digital twins of buildings and infrastructure systems to streamline construction and infrastructure operations. She and her team specifically focus on investigating utilization and integration of building information models with data capture technologies, such as 3D imaging and other sensors, and develop approaches to support proactive and predictive operations and management and to enable autonomy in the built environment.

Prof Akinci is also a valued member of the Digital Roads Steering Committee.