Dr. Vishal Singh joined IISc as an Associate Professor in March 2020. Before joining IISc, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Aalto University, Finland. He also had a brief stint as Director, Innovation at the Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences where he led the Research & Development strategy for the Data-Driven Construction Innovation Hub. At Aalto, Dr. Singh led the Aalto BIM Collaboration and built the Integrated Construction Innovation and Collaboration (ICONIC) Lab focusing on construction informatics and Building Information Modelling (BIM). Previously, he has also worked in Australia as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Deakin University and as a Research Assistant at the University of Newcastle.
Dr. Singh serves on scientific committee of several international conference series across Engineering Design, Product Informatics and Lifecycle Management. He has also served as the chair of the Educational Committee in EC3, the European Council for Computing in Construction. He has also been a regular contributor and reviewer across several noted academic journals.
Dr. Singh’s research is strongly built on Industry-Academia collaboration, and he has also served as the Chairman of the Board at Visualynk Oy, a Finland-based start-up that provides software as a service for the construction and facilities management sectors.