Digital Informatics, Visualisation and Virtual Reality in the Built Environment

Associated Professor Samad Sepasgzoar is based at The School of Built Environment, the University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr Sepasgzoar has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers on trending topics, mainly focusing on interdisciplinary topics: Building Construction, Architecture, City, Remote Sensing, Manufacturing, Information Systems, Computer Science, and Sustainability. He has been awarded as one of the World’s Top 1% Reviewers by Publons, Web of Science.

Dr Sara Shirowzhan is a lecturer and co-convener of the Smart Cities and Infrastructure Cluster in the School of Built Environment (BE) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Dr Shirowzhan’s areas of research in technologies relevant to the built environment include advanced GIS, nD BIM, sensing technologies, digital twins, and artificial intelligence for applications in smart cities, infrastructure, urban development and construction.

Kai is a construction industry professional and PhD Candidate (University of New South Wales) with over 13 years of experience having practiced as a lawyer, architect and project delivery manager for leading Australian firms, PPPs and sovereign wealth funds. He has been a trusted professional in the delivery of major projects valued between \(50 million and \)2 billion. His research involves tracking the impact of COVID-19 on construction workers in Sydney and Melbourne using geographic information systems analytics.

Juan Garzon Romero is a civil engineer who graduated with a Master’s in Construction and Property Management at UNSW and has extensive experience in construction, design, drafting, geographic information systems, and contract administration. He specialises in the development of construction-related virtual simulations to showcase site procedures and assembly methodologies.