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Dr. Mani Dhingra is an urban thinker, practitioner, and academic whose research lies at the intersection of smart cities, urban digital twins, participatory governance, ethical AI, resilient communities, and evidence-based policymaking. Her academic and professional journey spans over a decade, combining research, project leadership, and hands-on experience in public and private sector. She earned her Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, where she introduced an Intelligent Fuzzy Inference System to assess the smartness of traditional Indian settlements.
Currently, she is serving as the ADAPT Digital Twin Research Lead at University College Dublin, a position co-funded by Dublin City Council’s Smart City Unit and the ADAPT Centre for AI-driven digital content technology. This unique role embeds me within Ireland’s largest local authority to lead its digital twin program and she manages several high-impact projects, including INTERREG North-West Europe co-funded Twin4Resilience (T4R) project and fostering adoption of new technologies for public sector planning.
