Presented by the Digital Twin Initiative, the Digital Twin Seminar Series is a series of regular 1-hour talks given throughout each semester, where preeminent researchers share their work with a highly interdisciplinary audience that includes students, faculty, and industry leaders. The seminar series focuses on innovations and advancements in digital twin research and technologies.

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Date: July 31st, 2025 (Thursday)
Time: 10:00 am EST
Venue: Partnership II, Room 303, Digital Twin Collaborative Space

Professor Abbas Rajabifard is Discipline Leader of Geomatics, Director of Smart Sustainable Development and Leader of the Future Infrastructure Research Program, Melbourne School of Engineering. He is also Director of the Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA) and was Head of Department of Infrastructure Engineering (2012-June 2020) at The University of Melbourne. He has a strong track record in research and teaching, and academic leadership, and is internationally recognized scholar and engineer. His academic background is in Surveying and Mapping, Land Administration and Urban Systems, and has continued to maintain a high level of performance across the areas of research, teaching, RHD supervision, and service to the profession and to the university. He is also Chair of Academic Network of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Managment -GGIM, and has a strong linkage with many countries and different cultures, that he has developed over the years during his activities in Australia and abroad, and also through his professional work and collaboration with many countries across the world, particularly in Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America and Latin America regions.