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Houman is a Fellow of Engineers Australia with over 20 years' experience gained through working on major oil, gas, bridge and other infrastructure projects in Australia and offshore. Since joining the then RTA in 2008, Houman has been extensively involved in various research and development projects and received acknowledgements and awards for his contributions and achievements. Houman is currently leading the Infrastructure Technology (Infratech) Services team of Digital Engineering Services of TfNSW. The infratech team has been involved in multiple projects leveraging machine learning, augmented reality, drones, 3D printing etc to develop various solutions for asset management across the Cluster.

Professor Samali is a senior member of the Centre, appointed to the position in November 2013. Prior to joining Western Sydney University, Professor Samali held a Personal Chair in Structural Engineering at UTS since 1999. He is the author or co-author of over 650 scholarly publications (including over 200 journal publications), on a wide range of topics in the areas of structural engineering, structural dynamics, vibration and motion control, wind and earthquake engineering, bridge engineering, damage detection and health monitoring of structures including keynote addresses and invited papers. More recently he has also focused on concrete technology and cementitious materials with particular emphasis on developing new, green and sustainable concrete with superior properties including geopolymer, self-compacting concrete and concrete using waste by-products. He has also been involved with several major projects as a specialist consultant over the years. He has attracter (individually or as part of a team) over 11 million dollars of research funding throughout his academic career.

David Haller is the National Operations Manager of the Masterplanned Communities construction division at Mirvac Group. The Mirvac Group has always been well known for innovation, having recently been awarded Fast Company's #7 most innovative Urban Development and Real Estate company in the world. This innovative culture has seen Mirvac pioneer the use of prefab in its domestic housing business. David Haller who leads the Masterplanned Communities construction business for Mirvac will be talking through Mirvac’s journey in Digital Engineering and Off-Site Manufacturing for housing, this presentation will be filled with real life project examples with tangible information regarding the benefits realised. The presentation will also explain the key learnings that Mirvac has discovered that will now allow the business to grow the use of prefab to a larger scale across its Masterplanned Communities business.

Dr. Cai is a senior manager at EY, working towards accelerating the adoption of AI and digital twin in transformational industries. He obtained a PhD in Transport at University College London, began his research career at National ICT Australia (NICTA), moved to CSIRO as NICTA was merged with CSIRO to form Data61, where he founded the Transport Analytics group. The group was the recipient of numerous awards: NSW Premier's Innovation Initiative, Committee for Sydney Award, iAward, CSIRO Collaboration Medal, and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Australia Awards. The core of group followed him to join EY in June 2022. He was an elected board director of ITS Australia from 2017 to 2021.

Prof Tuan Ngo is the Research Program Leader-Building Transformation of the Building 4.0 CRC, a new $130m initiative to transform the building industry in Australia. He also coordinated the bid to establish of the ARC Training Centre for Advanced Manufacturing of Prefabricated Housing (ARC-CAMPH), a $10m center focusing on prefabricated buildings on off-site construction where he has worked as the Research Director. Prof Ngo leads the Advanced Protective Technologies of Engineering Structures (APTES) Research Group which has been recognised as one of the leading centers in advanced materials & structural systems, and physical infrastructure protection in Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

Prof Tommy Chan is a Full Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Queensland University of University (QUT).  He is also the Founding Chair and President of the Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM).  Prof Chan has been actively involved in carrying out research on structural health monitoring (SHM).  He has over 25 years of experience in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of various significant long-span bridges in Hong Kong and Mainland China.

Shane Frischkorn has a background in software engineering and geology, and has been involved in structural health monitoring for the last 6 years with Monitum and Kurloo. Shane has designed, installed, and managed a variety of monitoring projects in Southeast Queensland. He worked on the $3.6B Queen's Wharf development in Brisbane, including the Riverside Expressway and surrounding heritage buildings, as well as monitoring other infrastructure. He is currently completing a PhD studying the use of GNSS data and machine learning in monitoring soil settlement at QUT.

Dr Jun Li is currently an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow in the School of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at Curtin University, Australia. He is leading a research team of 2 Research Associate and 8 PhD students in the Curtin Research Center for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection, delivering the next-generation technologies for monitoring the conditions of ageing civil infrastructure based on novel data analytics, artificial intelligence and signal processing techniques.

Professor Jianchun Li received the PhD degree from Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. He is currently Professor of Structural Dynamics and co-Director of the Centre for Built Infrastructure Resilience in Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney in Australia. His current research interests are in the areas of smart materials and smart structures, structural control for civil engineering, damage detection, structural health monitoring, non-destructive testing and structure rehabilitation. Prof Jianchun Li is also the deputy president of  the Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM) since 2009.

Simon is an industry pioneer, who is well-regarded for successfully driving digital transformation throughout the infrastructure sector. From 2014-2021, Simon led all aspects of the acclaimed Transport for NSW Digital Engineering Framework program, from its initial vision through to industry-wide implementation. This program has been a significant catalyst for change, transforming public sector digital capability and driving a step change in overall industry productivity. Simon demonstrates a unique blend of strategic leadership and technical capability, refined over 20 years of project experience in the infrastructure sector. He is a regular speaker at public events, a mentor to young professionals and a keen promoter of civil and digital engineering.

Alex Ching-Tai Ng is a Professor of the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering in the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology and Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences at The University of Adelaide. For his research achievements, he has received two prestigious research awards, Australian Research Council - Discovery Early Career Research Award and The Nishino Prize. So far he has obtained research grants with a total amount of AUD$1.3 million. He has worked with industry, e.g. Australian Rail Track Corporation, CRC-ACS and Airbus Limited, and is currently holding an international patent.

As the leader of the smart infrastructure team, Yang keeps actively engaging external customers and delivering innovative data-driven solutions for industry. Yang has led 20+ collaborative projects with Industrial partners including Sydney Trains, V/Line, Sydney Water, Melbourne Water, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Queensland Urban Utility, Woodside, NBN, HK WSD, and Acer etc. The team has successfully raised over $5M of external funding since 2015. Yang actively interacts with industrial partners to carry out user-inspired research and leads the development of advanced analytics approaches for smart infrastructure applications. Yang has also filed 5 patents in Australia, China, and USA. Yang received the NICTA Impact Award of Wealth Creation 2014, NSW iAwards 2017, and 2 AWA Research Innovation awards (national and state) 2018.

Professor Xinqun Zhu obtained his PhD at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2001. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Structural Engineering at University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Before he joined UTS in December 2017, he has worked at Western Sydney University for nine years. He is also an Associate Editor of international Journal of Advances in Structural Engineering and the Editorial Board member of other five journals. He has published over 240 articles including two research books and 140 referred journal papers. His journal papers have been well-cited with a Scopus-h index of 33 and the Google Scholar h-index of 37.

Mahesh is Associate Director in the Bridges and Structures team at AECOM. He has over 25 years' experience in bridge design and construction with project experience spread across India, Middle East and Australia. His areas of expertise include multi-level urban interchanges, motorways, railway bridges, pedestrian bridges, bridge inspections, bridge widening, bridge strengthening and structural health monitoring. Mahesh brings innovative solutions which incorporate safety and sustainability while addressing maintenance and durability concerns over the life of the structure. Mahesh is also an experienced project manager leading multidisciplinary teams all through the project life cycle. Mahesh is currently focusing on sustainable practices in the infrastructure space.

Prof. Guan is a Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University. She is research leader of the “Building Science and Construction Innovation” group within Griffith's Cities Research Institute. Prof. Guan is an expert in structural engineering and computational mechanics research with special interests in finite element modelling and failure/collapse analysis, bridge deterioration modelling, application of finite element method in dental implant research and structural topology  ecognized n. Her current research focus is on progressive collapse resistance of concrete structures and mass timber frame buildings. She is Internationally  ecognized as the world's top 2% scientists based on citations (Elsevier BV) and the world's top ten most active researchers in disproportionate/progressive collapse research of concrete structures (Scopus).

Dr Ali Hadigheh has been working in maintenance and strengthening of infrastructure since 2007. He joined the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney in November 2016. With reliable infrastructure capable of facilitating economic growth, investment in our built environment is growing every year. Nevertheless, many of our built structures are vulnerable to deterioration, damage and loss of functionality due to natural disasters (fires, floods, earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis), non-environmental factors (industrial pollution, contamination) and other events (terrorist attacks). Dr Ali Hadigheh's research identifies and addresses these vulnerabilities in order to improve the resilience and sustainability of our built environment.

Dr Nguyen is currently a Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering and Program Convenor for BENS/BENH (Civil) at USQ. He researches in the broad area of Civil Engineering with a focus on Monitoring and Infrastructure Technologies such as Structural Health Monitoring, Resilient and Intelligent Infrastructures, and Innovative Materials.

Dr Govinda Pandey is the CEO of Rockfield, Co-Founder of LiXiA and Adjunct Associate Professor at James Cook University. His leadership has resulted in Rockfield pioneering the adoption of modern sensor technologies to accelerate the world's transition to safe and intelligent infrastructure. Govinda's network extends globally given his international training and practice. Govinda completed his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering, master degrees in Structural Engineering and Business Administration, PhD in Concrete Engineering and a Postdoc in Structural Rehabilitation using FRP. Govinda is also a Graduate of the Australia Institute of Company Directors and Townsville Enterprise Emerging Leaders Program. Govinda's technical authority is in the areas of structural rehabilitation, non-linear modelling, bridge engineering, structural health monitoring, asset management, buried metal structures and mechanically stabilized earth walls. He has delivered projects of various sizes and complexities across Australia and New Zealand.

Dr Colin Caprani is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng MIEAust) and Chartered Structural Engineer (CEng MIEI, MIStructE) with considerable industrial and academic experience. He has worked as a design structural engineer on a wide range of projects, including integral bridges, new-concept bridge beam development, large-scale commercial mixed-use developments, and renovation and refurbishment of listed structures. His research specializations involve highway bridge traffic loading for short- and long-span bridges; vibration serviceability of footbridges; structural reliability and statistics of extremes; and Intelligent Transportation System - infrastructure interaction. He has lectured on numerous courses in three universities.

Dr Khac Duy Nguyen is DECRA postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His project aims to developing an innovative condition assessment method for reliably evaluating health condition of large infrastructure systems. This will be done without disruption of infrastructure operation and with minimum resources of data and minimum effort for numerical modelling and calibrating.

Dr. Jing Rao is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering and IT at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia, specializing in the non-destructive evaluation and acoustic imaging. Before coming to UNSW, she was Humboldt research fellowship and EuroTech Postdoc Fellowship (Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship) holder in the Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. After completing her Ph.D. at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, she was a postdoc in her Ph.D. group.

Henry is a mechanical engineer and data analyst. He spans the worlds of engineering and data science with expertise in test engineering, data analysis, and technical communication through data visualisation and interpretation within an engineering context. Henry has been involved in many challenging projects across numerous industries including mining, rail, defence, construction, environmental and infrastructure. These projects have involved laboratory/workshop testing and operational dynamic testing of physical properties such as strain, displacement and vibration. Henry's main area of interest and expertise is to use field testing and data analysis to define or predict the outcomes and associated uncertainties from complex physical systems.

Prof Richard Yang joined WSU in January 2012 as Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Smart Structures and he was promoted as Professor in 2018. Prior to this, Richard was holding a position of Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, the School of Engineering, Deakin University (Deakin). Prior to his almost six-year working at Deakin University, he also has worked for a couple of years each in the University of Sydney (USyd) and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) as post-doc research fellow after he finished his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2002. He was awarded the Graduate Certificate for Higher Education by Deakin University in 2008.

Dr. Makki Alamdari is a Senior Lecturer in the UNSW, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She is the recipient of the highly competitive ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA). Dr. Alamdari is also the winner of the prestigious JSPS Award (Japan Society for Promotion of Science). As an award-winning scholar, Mehri is on the Executive of the Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM), a member of The International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (ISHMII), a member of International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), and a steering committee member in the Australia, New Zealand and Oceania Researchers in Japan Network (ANZOR Japan Network). Prior to joining UNSW, she was a research fellow in Data61|CSIRO (since 2015) working on structural health monitoring of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge. Dr. Alamdari's expertise is structural health monitoring, vibration analysis and testing, inverse dynamic problems and signal processing.

Dr Lei Hou is an expert in Construction/IT research with special interests in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and other mobile computing technologies. Dr Hou was conferred the Bachelor of Engineering and the Bachelor of Law from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) in 2009 and the Doctorate of Construction Management from Curtin University in 2013. His PhD research related to the application of advanced visualisation and digital technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed-Reality (MR) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) in construction work, particularly in assembly.