We warmly welcome our new academic guest Ridwan Taiwo to the IM team!

Ridwan Taiwo joins the Infrastructure Management Group at the Institute of Construction & Infrastructure Management as a Guest Ph.D. researcher. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, developing integrated intelligent tools for the efficient management of water distribution networks (WDNs). He has developed and deployed machine learning-based applications for failure and cause prediction in WDN. His research has been published in leading journals on water resources and sustainability, such as npj Clean Water, Water Resources Research, and Journal of Cleaner Production. He holds a BEng from the Federal University of Technology Akure and an MEng from the University of Cape Town, both in Civil Engineering. His interest lies in artificial intelligence modeling for optimized infrastructure and construction management.