Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran is a Chartered Civil Engineer with varied international experience from supporting asset owners protect key transport infrastructure in the UK to designing and construction of civil infrastructure to post-earthquake damage assessment and reconstruction work in Peru. She returned to academia from industry to complete a PhD combining structural engineering insights together with satellite image processing, working with National Physical Laboratory and the German Aerospace Center (DLR). She is a Fellow in Engineering at the University of Cambridge, part of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC), and has a multidisciplinary research group (civil engineering, remote sensing, computer science) working on topics related to data for infrastructure monitoring, natural hazards and climate challenges. Sakthy is also the founder of BKwai, a technology company using data to intelligently predict potential ground/structural problem in the built environment before they occur.