Professor Ioannis Brilakis

Professor Ioannis Brilakis is the Laing O'Rourke Professor of Digital Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering. His research interests include Construction Engineering & Management, Job-Site Automation, Generating As-Built BIMs, Infrastructure Data Sensing, Analysis and Knowledge Discovery. He is also involved in various academic roles, including being a Founder and first Chairman of the European Council for Computing in Construction and a Member of the Management Team of the FIBE2 Centre for Doctoral Training.

Ioannis Brilakis is a Laing O'Rourke Professor of Civil & Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge, specializing in Construction Engineering, Construction IT, and Digital Twins. His research focuses on integrating advanced technologies such as Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Twins to enhance infrastructure management, construction automation, and safety assessments. He explores methods for automated as-built modeling, visual inspection of infrastructure, and semantic enrichment of Building Information Modeling (BIM). His work addresses challenges in construction progress monitoring, structural safety evaluation, and climate resilience of critical infrastructure through innovative digital solutions.