Imperial professor appointed Research Chair in Data-Centric Engineering Imperial News Imperial College London

Professor Mark Girolami will study how engineering can use big data to improve practice, including the development of'digital twins'. Professor Girolami, from the Department of Mathematics at Imperial, has been appointed the Lloyd's Register Foundation / Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data-Centric Engineering. He will lead a five-year project to explore how big data can be incorporated into engineering practice, including the development of new data-centric techniques to monitor the safety of physical structures that will be trialled on the world's first 3D printed stainless steel pedestrian bridge. As part of this, Professor Girolami will develop novel methods and software to create virtual copies of physical structures, also known as digital twins, in order to model what might happen in real life. He is currently Chair of Statistics at Imperial and Strategic Programme Director for the Turing-Lloyd's Register Foundation Data-Centric Engineering Programme at The Alan Turing Institute.