Brian Sheil

Professor

University of Cambridge, UK

The Seen and the Unseen: Multi-Modal Sensing for Understanding Surface and Subsurface Infrastructure

Bio:Brian Sheil is the Director of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction at University of Cambridge. He previously held academic positions at the University of Oxford and was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship before moving to Cambridge in 2022 to take up the Laing O’Rourke Associate Professorship in Construction Engineering. In 2024, he was awarded an EPSRC Open Fellowship for his work on Digital Underground Construction. He is a co-founder and Chief Scientist of the startup InfraMind, which develops AI-based “digital inspectors” for infrastructure, currently being trialled by organisations including National Highways, Network Rail, and Transport for London. He serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals and has received multiple awards for research excellence and commercialisation. His research puts physics first in developing trustworthy AI for infrastructure, combining computer vision, multimodal sensing, physics-informed learning, and multi-scale simulation to enable digital twins, inspection, early warning, and lifecycle management of underground and civil infrastructure.

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