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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr E. Agapaki
DTSTART:20210329T140000
DTEND:20210329T144500
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Eva Agapaki\n14:00 – 14:45 – Dr Eva Agapaki\nInnovation
  Lead at PTC Boston Corporate Headquarters\,Boston\, USA\n\nGeometric Digi
 tal Twins and the Future of Infrastructure\n\nMaintenance and retrofitting
  of existing infrastructure are of immense value to our society and econom
 y. Design or construction plans often do not accurately reflect the “as-
 is” conditions of a facility\, given that facilities undergo multiple ch
 anges during their lifecycle. Even though an accurate mapping of the as-is
  conditions is of great value\, this process is currently expensive and ti
 me-consuming and as a result\, the construction industry remains under-dig
 itized. In this talk\, I will explain how geometric Digital Twins (gDT) ar
 e central to solving this challenge and I will focus on their automated ge
 neration by a combination of deep learning methods and engineering knowled
 ge. This framework achieves high accuracy visual recognition of infrastruc
 ture objects and drastically reduces the gDT generation time. I will then 
 elaborate on how this line of work is the stepping stone for the next gene
 ration of infrastructure\, allowing tasks such as automated design of safe
 ty-compliant industrial and urban infrastructure\, automated damage assess
 ment and numerical simulations using the as-is conditions.\n\n\nShort bio:
 \nEva Agapaki is Innovation Lead at PTC Boston\, where she leads innovatio
 n projects on computer vision and deep learning applications in the manufa
 cturing industry. She recently obtained her PhD from the University of Cam
 bridge\, where her research pioneered the automated generation of geometri
 c Digital Twins of existing industrial facilities from Lidar data at a com
 mercially viable level. She conducted part of her PhD research at MIT and 
 was awarded the U.S. National Academy of Engineering grant for addressing 
 one of the 14 Grand Challenges in Engineering of our century. She also hol
 ds an MSc in Geotechnical Earthquake engineering from UCLA and a BSc in Ci
 vil Engineering from the University of Patras. Eva has founded a startup (
 CLOI digital factory) in Boston and won several pitch competitions. She ha
 s extensive collaborations with industry on digital twinning projects some
  of which include AVEVA\, Trimble and Microsoft.
LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/86144300590
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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