Friday 1 May 2026 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Seminar Room, Civil Engineering Building, University of Cambridge
About
The DRF Lunchtime Clinic is delighted to welcome Dr. Anandarup Mukherjee, Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge, who will join us to talk about "An Information-centric Approach to Modular Digital Twin Architectures (A Hospital Laboratory Operations Case-study)".
About the talk
Modern hospitals are paradoxically technology-rich but information-poor. Despite the significant presence of patient, laboratory, and workflow information systems, clinical operations are often delayed, capacities are underutilised, and resources are stretched thin. This is mainly due to limited visibility into hospital information and operational processes across its departments. As we speak, several initiatives have already been proposed and are underway to address these operational bottlenecks and information discrepancies. Most of these initiatives operate in silos, limiting their scope and benefits across the hospital ecosystem and benefiting only a small operational process within a complex network of intertwined operations and dependencies. This talk provides a quick overview of an information-centric Digital Twin architecture that takes a big-picture approach and accommodates twins built for siloed operational benefits. Drawing on case studies from our recent project with the Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Addenbrookes hospital histopathology department, this talk shows how such an information-centric modular Digital Twin platform could significantly improve hospital operations and the ecosystem as a whole.
About the speaker
Dr. Mukherjee is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Manufacturing, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council UK. His research reshapes how modular, interoperable information architectures are built for complex networked systems, influencing digitalisation across healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, and supply chains. He serves as Vice Chair of the IEEE P1954 Standards Committee on Spectrum-Agile UAV-to-UAV Communications, Area Expert for the IEEE ComSoc SIG on IoT for e-Health, Editor for IET Digital Twins and Applications, and Associate Editor for Springer Nature PPNA. He was recently awarded the IfM postdoctoral research excellence award for 2025.