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Keynote Talk at Loughborough University
I was delighted to deliver a keynote at the International Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) Conference 2025 at Loughborough University last Friday.
The conference was chaired by Dr. Ali M. Saad, PhD and Prof. Chris Gorse, and co-chaired by Prof. Saheed Ajayi, Prof. Colin Booth, Prof. Professor Darryl Newport, and Alison Pooley. Many thanks for the kind invitation. It was a pleasure to meet you in person and contribute to such a forward-looking and well-organised conference.
In my talk, “From Construction Sites to Cities: Digital Twins and LLMs for a Conversational and Adaptive Future”, I discussed digital twins from both conceptual and technical perspectives and showed some case studies and technologies for construction and urban/city-level.
We reflected on how certain technical architectures of Digital Twin and LLM can enable a conversational and adaptive interface between humans and complex built environment data, and provided a policy playground for managing urban pollution, as an example.
I also want to acknowledge the outstanding contributions of colleagues in the NU-DICE Lab (https://lnkd.in/eJFKzW9W), co-led by Dr. Xiang Xie, and the Newcastle Urban Observatory (Prof. Philip James).
To colleagues developing hashtagHorizonEurope and hashtagUKRI proposals in this area of growth: we have know-how, technology, data, and demonstrators in place. If this resonates with your projects, let’s connect!
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