Dr. Jorge Ochoa

Dr. J. Jorge Ochoa is a Senior Lecturer and Research Degree Co-ordinator at the University of South Australia. He holds a PhD in Sustainable Construction from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Bond University before joining the University of South Australia in 2015. His work focuses on the development of systems and decision-support tools for the sustainable transformation of built environments. Dr. Ochoa provides innovative solutions by applying digital technologies, big data analytics, visualizations, and artificial intelligence to address challenges in the built environment. He works together with industry and end-users to produce research with an impact that goes beyond the confines of academia. As such, Dr Ochoa’s work has been widely accepted and adopted by several important organisations including the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the European Commission DG Environment, the United Nations World Water Assessment Programme, and the New York City Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Ochoa is the leader of the Sustainable Infrastructure and Built Environments (SIBE) strand at the Natural and Built Environments Research Centre (NBERC). As Strand Leader, he aims to contribute to the creation and development of opportunities for research partnerships with industry and end-users to tackle local and global challenges.