Dr Abanda is a Reader in Construction Informatics and conducts research with the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development in Oxford Brookes University. He is a Chartered Engineer, holds an HDR in Digital Construction Technology (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France) and a PhD in Construction IT (Oxford Brookes University, UK). His teaching and research interests are: the Semantic Web, BIM, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine and Deep Learning and Digital Twins applications in construction