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CSIC project features in New Civil Engineer

11 March 2020

An article titled ‘Future of Rail: Artificial intelligence helps Network Rail’s maintenance regime’ published in New Civil Engineer includes the CSIC award-winning project monitoring a masonry viaduct in Leeds for Network Rail. CSIC's innovative approach to monitoring the health of ageing railway infrastructure won the New...


Read more at: Dr Didem Gurdur Broo awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship
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Dr Didem Gurdur Broo awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship

11 March 2020

Dr Didem Gurdur Broo has been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to develop a conceptual framework for human-centred sustainable future cyber-physical systems. This fellowship will enable her to undertake a new research project in collaboration with Professor Leifer’s designX research lab at...


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Are digital twins the next phase of the AI revolution?

27 February 2020

The Turing Talk 2020 by Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair, Academic Director of CDBB, and Director of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Programme on Data Centric Engineering at the Alan Turing Institute, played...


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Read CSIC’s winter newsletter

20 February 2020

Highlights of the newsletter include t his year’s CSIC Partner Strategy Day which brought together partners and academics to discuss pressing industry challenges that CSIC’s future research agenda will seek to address. In other news: one CSIS Research Associate makes the case for understanding data to win the AI race; an...


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Head of CSIC calls for need for innovation in House of Lords HS2 debate

29 January 2020

Head of CSIC, Professor Lord Robert Mair, drew attention to the need for and benefits of innovation in a speech at the House of Lords during a debate about the Report from the Economic Affairs Committee Rethinking High Speed 2 (6th Report, Session 2017-19, HL Paper 359) this month. Drawing attention to the three principal...


Read more at: CSIS Research Associate makes the case for understanding data to win the AI race
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CSIS Research Associate makes the case for understanding data to win the AI race

15 January 2020

CSIC Research Associate, Didem Gurdur Broo, has written an article published by The Conversation highlighting how, in a changing world, it is the larger tech companies making the most of opportunities that Big Data and AI can provide. Outlining the challenges to other sectors, including a lack of high-quality data, an...


Read more at: Third autumn DC2 seminar brings focus to ‘smartening’ urban planning and policy
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Third autumn DC2 seminar brings focus to ‘smartening’ urban planning and policy

15 January 2020

The third DC2 seminar of the autumn series featured two speakers exploring approaches to ‘smartening’ urban planning and policy. Franziska Sielker, Lecturer in Planning and Housing at the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, presented ‘A new era for city planning? Innovations and barriers to...


Read more at: Industry partners look to the future at CSIC 2019 Strategy Day
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Industry partners look to the future at CSIC 2019 Strategy Day

19 December 2019

This year’s CSIC Partner Strategy Day brought together partners and academics to identify and discuss pressing industry challenges that CSIC’s future research agenda will seek to address. Robinson College hosted the fully-booked event, which attracted 30 partners from across infrastructure and construction organisations...


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CSIC partners win prestigious 2019 Fleming award

19 December 2019

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) has announced the results of the 2019 Fleming Award. The Fleming Award is awarded by BGA to the project team which most demonstrates excellence in geotechnical design and construction. The judging panel look for teamwork across different disciplines and innovation. Three...


Read more at: CSIC champions women in science and engineering - Didem Gurdur Broo
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CSIC champions women in science and engineering - Didem Gurdur Broo

19 December 2019

Name: Didem Gurdur Broo - CSIC Research Associate Background – how and why did you get into engineering? I have always been interested in how things work and I was lucky to have a family who encouraged me to disassemble things to see what they had inside. Other than a few toy cars belonging to my brother, things properly...


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