Ranjith Soman

Ranjith Soman serves as Assistant Professor of Digital Construction at TU Delft's Faculty of Civil Engineering and GeoSciences, where he pioneers the integration of digital technologies in construction management. His academic journey includes an MSc in Building Technology from IIT Madras, followed by innovative work in robotic construction systems and a PhD from Imperial College London focusing on knowledge codification and semantic-web technologies. His research at the Alan Turing Institute combined Linked-data based Constraint-Checking with reinforcement learning to optimize construction planning, while his postdoctoral work at ETH Zurich's Future Cities Laboratory and Imperial College London advanced digital systems for circular economy implementation. Currently leading projects in Smart Mobile Factories for Infrastructure and ResilientHydroTwin, he brings expertise in machine learning, semantic web technology, data visualization, mixed reality, and Internet of Things to develop innovative digital strategies for construction. As an Honorary Associate Professor at University College London and Dissemination Chair for the 2024 EC3 Conference, he continues to advance the field through his work on digital twins, AI applications, and computationally augmented decision-making, while maintaining his passion for improving infrastructure projects through digital transformation in today's rapidly evolving technological landscape.