Dr. Ruwini EDIRISINGHE
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Department: School of PCPM
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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ruwini.edirisinghe@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Ruwini is a scholar of digital innovation in the Built Environment who undertakes pure and applied research that can provide innovative solutions to the industry by integrating theories with cutting-edge technologies.
Her specific research projects address the emerging needs of construction and facility management sectors to improve work health and safety, optimising asset performance, life cycle assessments for decarbonization, waste management and circularity through digital innovation. She is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Ruwini has demonstrated research leadership by securing a growing volume of grants and prestigious fellowships. So far, Ruwini has secured $4.9million in research funding and has been awarded several research awards. She has a strong track record of leading collaborations with local and national research partners and with industry and the community to make an impact.
Ruwini has been a passionate and effective advocate for gender diversity in the engineering profession since 2012 through IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organisation and since 2014 through RMIT's Women Researchers' Network. Currently, she leads teams/committees to promote diversity beyond gender to make an impact across the whole 'education' and 'career pipeline'.
Awards and fellowships:
- Leadership Award - Outstanding Organisational Unit Award (2023), IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Outstanding Volunteer Award (2023), IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Vistas Award (2023), CIB, The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction
- RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Research Award: Malcolm Moore Industry Award (2015),
- RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellowship Award (2015-2021)
- RMIT University Early Career Researcher International Travel Award (2014)
- Endeavour Post-doctoral Research Fellowship Award (2011), Australian Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
- Research Commercialisation Training Award (2008), Commonwealth Government, Australia
Research fields
- 330202 Building construction management and project planning
- 330201 Automation and technology in building and construction
- 330204 Building information modelling and management
Supervisor projects
- Optimizing the use of waste in the RHA based mortar using Machine learning and AI
- 4 Feb 2025
- Optimized Decision-making Platform for Mapping Waste Material Flow
- 29 Jan 2025
- Extended Reality Technologies for Enhanced University Pedagogy
- 29 Jan 2025
- Predictive modeling of building degradation as influenced by contributing factors
- 29 Feb 2024
- Physiological data-based emotion detection to measure the effectiveness of safety training in the construction industry: Heart Rate Variability(HRV) and electroencephalogram (EEG)
- 19 Feb 2024
- Digital Twin (DT) based life cycle management of built environment: enhanced construction site safety and sustainable building management
- 5 Feb 2024
- A Methodology for Optimised Energy Retrofitting of Higher Educational Buildings
- 30 Sep 2023
- Development of a Circular Economy Maturity Model for the Construction Industry.
- 14 Jun 2023
Teaching interests
Programs:
- BH114 -Bachelor of Construction Management (Honours)
- DR212 -PhD (Built Environment)
https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/design/urban-design)
Course Coordinator:
- Research methods for the Built Environment (BUIL 1305) - 2022 to date
Teaching:
- Research Practice 1 (BUIL1306) and Research Practice 2 (BUIL1307) – 2021 to date
- Construction Planning and Design 2 (BUIL1257 offshore)- 2015-2020
Research interests
- Construction innovation
- Digital Twin of buildings and urban environment
- Life cycle carbon assessment through digital innovation
- Optimizing asset management through predictive modelling
- Waste optimization through AI
- Health and safety improvement through IoT-based smart wearables
- BIM and LLM for construction productivity
- Policy impact on innovation adoption
Specific keywords are:
BIM, facility management, predictive modelling, sensor networks, wearables, IoT, smart technologies for construction, health and safety, technology adoption, construction digital innovation, decarbonisation, DT, ML, AI, LLM, LCA
