Professor Yacine Rezgui

Professor and Leader of the Urban Intelligence Research Centre; Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Cardiff University and Optimise-AI

Professor Rezgui specialises in performance management of urban environments (buildings, infrastructure and cities), spanning energy efficiency and life-cycle sustainability assessment. He has 300+ refereed publications, including in Proceedings of the Royal Society A and IEEE Transactions, and an invited Nature contribution on UK science priorities. A granted US patent underpins ‘Optimise-AI’, the award-winning Cardiff University spin-out that he co-founded. This delivers measurable energy and carbon savings for clients such as Network Rail, ScotRail and Luton Airport.