Shady Adib

Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering

I-X Global Early-Career AI Fellow | Imperial College London Visiting Lecturer | University of Hertfordshire, UK Co-Founder & CTO | TWINOVUS

Advancing Self-Generating Digital Twins and AI-Enabled Structural Health Monitoring for Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure

Portrait of Dr Shady Adib

Welcome to my professional portfolio. I hold a PhD in Civil Engineering from Newcastle University, UK, and serve as an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering at the University of Hertfordshire, hosted by its Global Academic Foundation (UH-GAF) campus in Egypt. I also hold a Visiting Lecturer appointment at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield, UK.

I am an I-X Global Early-Career AI Fellow and Visiting Researcher at Imperial College London, working within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. My fellowship research investigates AI-enabled reconstruction of incomplete structural monitoring data to support reliable Digital Twin operation under sensor outages and changing monitoring conditions.

My research brings together structural engineering, physics-informed modelling, machine learning, and real-time sensing to advance Self-Generating Digital Twins: adaptive systems designed to evolve with the structures they represent. I focus on structural damage identification, virtual sensing, uncertainty-aware state reconstruction, and lifecycle intelligence to support infrastructure maintenance, reuse, repair, and resilience.

Alongside my academic work, I am the Co-Founder & CTO of TWINOVUS a deep-tech startup developing AI-powered Digital Twin systems for resilient and predictive infrastructure. My work connects research, teaching, and entrepreneurship to translate advances in infrastructure intelligence into practical engineering solutions.