We welcome Ranjith K. Soman at the Chair of IC
Ranjith is joining the Chair of Innovative and Industrial Construction as a post-doctoral researcher in the Circular Future Cities research module in the Future Cities Lab Global programme.
Trained as a civil engineer, he received his master’s by research in Building Technology and Construction Management from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He did his PhD which focused on knowledge codification, semantic-web technologies, and reinforcement learning to improve construction productivity in an infrastructure contex at the Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation at Imperial College London.
Ranjith is passionate about applying semantic web technologies, systems thinking, and artificial intelligence in civil infrastructure and is keen to educate the next generation of infrastructure professionals on the importance of embedding information technology within the scope of the traditional functions of existing core professional service.
The Chair of Innovative and Industrial Construction has two main research focuses: Governance of Integrated and Lean Project Delivery as well as Industrialized Construction. For more information visit our webpage.