Professor of Asset Management
Academic Division: Manufacturing and Management
Research group: Manufacturing Systems
Telephone: +44 1223 7 65606
Email: aknp2@cam.ac.uk
Research interests
Ajith Kumar Parlikad is Professor of Asset Management at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He is based at the Institute for Manufacturing, where he is the Head of the Asset Management research group. He is a Fellow and Tutor at Hughes Hall.
Ajith leads research activities on engineering asset management and maintenance. His particular focus is examining how asset information can be used to improve asset performance through effective decision-making. He actively engages with industry through research and consulting projects. He is currently the Scientific Secretary of the IFAC TC5.1 Working Group on "Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technology" and sits on the steering committee of the UK Digital Twin Hub. Ajith's current research focusses on the development and exploitation of digital twins of complex asset systems bringing together data from disparate sources to improve asset management.
Strategic themes
Energy, transport and urban infrastructure
Maintenance of urban infrastructure.
Complex, resilient and intelligent systems
Maintenance and through life management of physical assets, particularly risk and value.
Research projects
- Digital hospital operations - funded by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Resilient Communication Networks - funded by Boeing
- Critical Care Digital Twin: Pathway towards Affordable Healthcare - funded by the Royal Academy of Engineering
- National Hub for Decarbonised Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures (DARe) - funded by UKRI
- Digital Twins for Indoor Air Quality (TwinAIR) - funded by UKRI and Horizon Europe
- Digital Twin based Building Automation Systems (TwinBAS) - funded by UKRI and Horizon Europe
- Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction - funded by EPSRC and Innovate UK
Teaching activity
MET IIA
- 3P5: Industrial Engineering (2016- )
- 3P2: Production Machines and Systems (2007-17)
- 3P7: Managing Business and People (2011-16)
- 3P4: Operations Management (2007-11, 2016)
MET IIB (Course Director, 2016-19; Chair of Examiners, 2019-22)
- Industrial Operations Management (2017- )
- Industrial Systems Operations and Services (2012-16)
- Managing People (2011-14)
- Asset Management (2010-11)
Current PhD students
- Longyan Tan (2024- ): AI in asset management
- Sungin Cho (2024- ): Infrastructure Asset Management
- Hanu Indiran (2022- ): Fault Diagnosis
- Momoko Nakaoka (2022- ): Healthcare Facilities Management
- Luning Li (2022- ): Wireless sensor energy management
Past PhD students
- Janet Chang (2020-24): The effects of handover information quality on commercial building asset management
- Adolfo Crespo del Castillo (2020-24): Dynamic fleet maintenance management
- Maharshi Dhada (2018-22): Statistical Heirarchical Modelling for Industrial Collaborative Prognosis
- Gishan Don Ranasinghe (2017-21): Prognostics under the conditions of limited failure data availability
- Sam Petchrompo (2017-21): A pragmatic approach to multi-objective optimisation for portfolio asset management
- James Heaton (2016-21): Development of Asset Information requirements for asset management
- Adria Salvador (2016-20): Distributed collaborative prognosis
- Hao Li (2015-19): Integrated workload allocation and condition-based maintenance threshold optimisation
- Joel Adams (2015-19): Dynamic criticality analysis of industrial Assets and systems
- Jiaqiang Wang (2012-16): Performance measurement for asset management systems
- Zhenglin Liang (2011-15): Condition-based maintenance optimisation of systems with fault propagation
- Nipat Rasmekomen (2010-14): Condition-based maintenance of systems with degradation interactions
- Alexander Borek (2009-12): Risk-based approach for measuring the impact of data quality
- Raj Srinivasan (2008-11): Value of Information for maintenance decisions
Other positions
- Deputy Head of Division (Teaching)
- Fellow and Tutor, Hughes Hall