I'm
Sudheer Kumar Nanduri
Ph.D. Researcher, Construction Informatics, Digital Twins & BIM, AI on the Building Site
I study how construction workers move, act, and tire on site, and how that data can be read well enough to support safer construction systems. The work draws on real project sites, wearable sensors, and video.
One thread reaches EC3 2026 in Corfu, where I present a method for turning daily progress reports into schedule updates. It points at a wider interest: keeping a project's digital twin a place where people, firms, software, and machines coordinate, while it stays clear who decided what and on what record.
NITK, Surathkal | 2012 - 2014
Specialisation in Construction Technology & Management. Curriculum includes Concrete Technology, Construction Project Management, Organisational Behaviour. Major Project Subject - Contract Management.
SRKR Engg. College, Bhimavaram | 2008 - 2012
Civil Engineering. Curriculum includes design of concrete and steel structures, Solid & Fluid Mechanics, Geotechnical & Transportation Engineering, Major Project Subject - Traffic Engineering.
CUBE, IIT Madras | 2018 - 2019
Worked full-time on a project titled "Lean Training & Implementation Programme - 2018". Major responsibilities include coordinating training sessions, collecting field data and analysis.
L&T Construction | 2014 - 2018
Client and Subcontractor billing for a project of 400 Cr value. Major responsibilities include quantification, scheduling & progress monitoring & MIS.
IFC & OpenBIM ISO 19650 Common Data Environment (CDE) nD BIM Knowledge Graphs
Autodesk Revit Navisworks Blender Plannerly
Primavera P6 MS Project Cost Estimation Scheduling Earned Value Management (EVM) Lean Construction
Computer Vision Sensor Fusion Neuro-Symbolic Methods
My thesis reads construction worker activity and fatigue from wearable and video data taken on real sites. It builds the evidence base for safer construction systems, and gives me footing with human state, sensing, and uncertainty.
A method that turns free-text daily progress reports into schedule updates, then checks them against the plan's own constraints. Tested on a real project with 173 reports and 1000 validation activities.
Oral talk at EC3 2026, Corfu, 13 to 15 July 2026. In the conference proceedings.
As a teaching assistant I run part of the BIM lab, across theory, hands-on sessions, and evaluations. It covers nD BIM, common data environments, IFC, and openBIM. I also build small openBIM tools for class.
The direction I want to grow into. A shared coordination layer around the project's digital twin, where people, firms, AI agents, and robots work together while decisions stay authorised, recorded, and answerable.
Talk to me about itNanduri, S. K., & Delhi, V. S. K. · 2026 European Conference on Computing in Construction (EC3), Corfu, Greece
A neuro-symbolic system that enriches project schedules from DPR files using large language models and knowledge graphs, learning construction terminology automatically and validating outputs against project constraints. Tested on a real project (173 DPRs, 1000 validation activities): median confidence 0.825 with zero constraint violations.
EC3 2026 conference →Nanduri, S. K., et al. · Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon)
A review-based taxonomy that gives computer-vision systems a shared vocabulary for the actions construction workers perform on site. It seeds the action ontology used in later human factors and automation work.
Read on ITcon →Nanduri, S. K., & Delhi, V. S. K. · Proceedings of the 41st ISARC, Lille, France (pp. 1104-1114)
A study of how clip duration affects action-recognition models (I3D, MViT, VideoMAE) across construction trades, setting the temporal scale at which site activity can be recognised reliably.
Paper → Talk →Additional work on worker-fatigue sensing and multimodal activity segmentation is under review.
Ph.D. thesis · ACIM Lab, IIT Bombay
Reading construction worker activity and fatigue from wearable and video site data with computer vision and sensor fusion. This is the evidence base for safer construction systems.
Related publicationsConstruction Technology & Management, IIT Bombay
I run part of the BIM lab across theory, practical sessions, and evaluations, covering nD BIM, common data environments, IFC, and openBIM, with small openBIM tools built for class.
CTaM CoursesL&T Construction · CUBE, IIT Madras
Four years planning and scheduling commercial building projects, then a Lean training and implementation programme. This is the field experience behind the research questions above.
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IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
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