Dr. Tamer El-Diraby

Title of Talk:
Digital Twinning in the Built Asset Industry

Short Bio:
Dr. El-Diraby is a Professor and Coordinator, Ctr for Info. Sys. In Infrastructure & Construction, at the Dept. of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada. He is also the Director of the Intelligent Buildings Digital Twin. Prof. El-Diraby research work uses informatics systems to help re-think how we design and manage smart cities. He uses social and semantic network analysis to help understand community needs. His latest work covers the use of social BIM and machine learning to explore new horizons in supporting data-driven project and asset management systems, including the use of digital twinning to support the development of interactively adaptative buildings.