Digital twins for infrastructure resilience
Sensing, model updating and maintenance planning, for academic and professional audiences.
40archived external talks and lectures, 2018–2023
7countries
6continuing-education courses for practising engineers
International conferences and invited lectures
A selection from the archived record. Each entry is a talk that was given, at a named venue.
Geometric digital twins generated from terrestrial laser scanning data
International conference presentation on reality capture, BIM integration and infrastructure digital twins.
Deep learning-based damage detection using imagery
European structural-health-monitoring conference presentation on computer vision for civil infrastructure assessment.
Digital twin methods for transport infrastructure assessment
Bridge service-performance assessment and enhancement based on digital twin theory
Invited lecture. Slides were prepared in four versions across English and Chinese for the conference programme.
Digital construction methods: industry exchange forum
Research exchange lecture, School of Civil and Building Engineering
Two conference papers on reality capture and structural assessment
Conference presentations on digital construction and sustainable engineering
University seminars and a research-institute delegation lecture series
Invited lecture on reality capture and structural performance
Visiting professor lecture (UK) and external expert lecture (Germany)
Plenary presentation, Digitalisation and BIM Conference
Teaching practising engineers
Continuing professional development delivered to working engineers rather than to students — in English and in Chinese.
Six taught hours in English for international engineers
The earliest documented evidence of my teaching in English to a professional audience. Course slides are archived.
Six or more CPD courses for practising engineers
Including a full-day training course for a bridge engineering association, two BIM courses for a municipal construction commission’s professional development programme, and transport-sector management training.
Guest lecture, Smart and Sustainable Cities; conference paper on reinforcement learning for maintenance planning
Topics I am available to speak on
Current lecture and seminar topics, distinct from the record above.
AI-driven structural health monitoring
Data-informed structural assessment, anomaly detection, and how an engineer should read the output.
Human-robot collaboration in construction automation
Construction robotics, digital workflows and research testbeds.
ISO 19650-aligned BIM and GIS workflows
Information management and cross-border digital engineering collaboration, from inside the standards process.