ProfessorJennifer Whyte
Laing O'Rourke/RAEng Chair in Systems Integration
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
Orcid identifier0000-0003-4640-2913
- Laing O'Rourke/RAEng Chair in Systems IntegrationDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 9245 (Work)
- 436, Skempton Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Overview
My research interests are in project leadership, future making, systems integration and innovation in built infrastructure. The vision is of radically improving the delivery of complex infrastructure projects.
My research at Imperial has focused on systems integration in civil infrastructure. Research activities support the transformation to an advanced manufacturing industry with digital engineering capabilities, with decision-support tools for engineers and managers working on complex engineering projects. I led a strategic challenge on 'Data-Driven Engineering Design Under Uncertainty' in the Alan Turing Institute/Lloyds Register Foundation Programme on Data-Centric Engineering, and was co-Investigator on the Ventura EPSRC grant (led by Dr Ana Mijic), which is developing a way to visualize the interconnections between water and housing. I was am a member of the main board of Construction Leadership Council, on the advisory group for the Transforming Construction initiative, and a co-investigator on the Transforming Construction Network+ Alumni of my team at Imperial College London include Professor Jeni Giambona (Southampton), Professor Mikela Chatzimichailadou (UCL), Dr Luigi Mosca (Imperial Business School), Dr Ranjith Soman (TU Delft), Dr Karim Farghaly (UCL), Dr Long Chen (City U) and Dr Minzhu Wang (City U), Dr Katie Simpson (Nottingham Trent) and Dr Alexander Zhou.
The ambition of my work on systems integration is to identify risk in and build resilience into engineered systems by developing new ways to visualize and understand relationships between parts and the systemic consequences of changes in complex product systems using digital technologies. Achieving the vision will need a team that brings mathematicians and computer scientists together with scholars of engineering to develop the basis for a new generation of tools and techniques for managing change through the life of complex product systems. I anticipate this bringing learning and innovation from other industries into construction; and exploring fundamentally new approaches that will utilise a range of machine learning, graph theory, systems dynamics and scenario planning techniques. Through my chair, I worked with the Laing O'Rourke Engineering Excellence Team to shape this trajectory of research on systems integration techniques to examine system verification methods with information models; and design in cyber security and system resilience from the beginning.
My trajectory of research involved work with major infrastructure clients, project sponsors and project leaders to visualize and understand how to deliver complex product systems; identify risk and build in resilience and support collaborative working. The work built on a trajectory of EPSRC-funded research, including the Design Innovation Research Centre (2010-2015) held at the University of Reading, which had a focus on new modes of design in the digital economy and was funded through a Challenging Engineering grant.
My research interests are in project leadership, future making, systems integration and innovation in built infrastructure. The vision is of radically improving the delivery of complex infrastructure projects.
My research at Imperial has focused on systems integration in civil infrastructure. Research activities support the transformation to an advanced manufacturing industry with digital engineering capabilities, with decision-support tools for engineers and managers working on complex engineering projects. I led a strategic challenge on 'Data-Driven Engineering Design Under Uncertainty' in the Alan Turing Institute/Lloyds Register Foundation Programme on Data-Centric Engineering, and was co-Investigator on the Ventura EPSRC grant (led by Dr Ana Mijic), which is developing a way to visualize the interconnections between water and housing. I was am a member of the main board of Construction Leadership Council, on the advisory group for the Transforming Construction initiative, and a co-investigator on the Transforming Construction Network+ Alumni of my team at Imperial College London include Professor Jeni Giambona (Southampton), Professor Mikela Chatzimichailadou (UCL), Dr Luigi Mosca (Imperial Business School), Dr Ranjith Soman (TU Delft), Dr Karim Farghaly (UCL), Dr Long Chen (City U) and Dr Minzhu Wang (City U), Dr Katie Simpson (Nottingham Trent) and Dr Alexander Zhou.
The ambition of my work on systems integration is to identify risk in and build resilience into engineered systems by developing new ways to visualize and understand relationships between parts and the systemic consequences of changes in complex product systems using digital technologies. Achieving the vision will need a team that brings mathematicians and computer scientists together with scholars of engineering to develop the basis for a new generation of tools and techniques for managing change through the life of complex product systems. I anticipate this bringing learning and innovation from other industries into construction; and exploring fundamentally new approaches that will utilise a range of machine learning, graph theory, systems dynamics and scenario planning techniques. Through my chair, I worked with the Laing O'Rourke Engineering Excellence Team to shape this trajectory of research on systems integration techniques to examine system verification methods with information models; and design in cyber security and system resilience from the beginning.
My trajectory of research involved work with major infrastructure clients, project sponsors and project leaders to visualize and understand how to deliver complex product systems; identify risk and build in resilience and support collaborative working. The work built on a trajectory of EPSRC-funded research, including the Design Innovation Research Centre (2010-2015) held at the University of Reading, which had a focus on new modes of design in the digital economy and was funded through a Challenging Engineering grant.