Dr. Omar Doukari is an Assistant Professor in Construction Informatics in the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He holds a PhD from Aix-Marseille I University, where his work addressed AI, data fusion, uncertainty reduction and data quality improvement for spatial and geographic information. Before that, he held similar academic positions at CESI and ESTP Paris, France. His research develops AI-enabled digital methods for the built environment, integrating machine learning, semantic modelling and data-driven decision support with Building Information Modelling (BIM) and digital twins. He focuses on data-centric digital ecosystems for buildings and cities, sustainable and climate-resilient renovation, lifecycle assessment, and construction waste and circularity. His works include automated generation of BIM models from digitised plans, 4D BIM scheduling, object-centred compliance checking, and ontology-based safety management for renovation. He has published in Automation in Construction, Energy and Buildings and the Journal of Building Engineering. He is the Northumbria Principal Investigator of the Horizon Europe project INUA, on sufficiency-led regeneration of vacant and underused spaces, and previously contributed to the RINNO deep renovation project.