Infrastructure analytics company.

Dr. Nizar Lajnef is a professor of Civil Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU) and the head of the Computational Sensors Laboratory. He holds an MS and a Ph.D. degree from MSU. His current research activities include sensors design for structural health and usage monitoring, infrastructure instrumentation for smart cities, damage detection algorithms with application to civil and mechanical structures, and smart materials and systems.

Dr. Lajnef is the author of more than one hundred and forty peer reviewed publications. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the founding chair of the Data Sensing and Analytics (DSA) committee. He also serves on committees for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

Kenji Aono, Infratico's first employee and current President, holds a PhD in computer engineering from Washington University in St. Louis and an MS in electrical engineering from Michigan State University. He has over a decade of academic research in custom silicon and machine learning with recognition as an IEEE Senior Member.

Kenji has participated in the Skandalaris Center Leadership and Entrepreneurial Acceleration Program, NSF Regional and National I-Corps, MassChallenge, U.S. EDA's SPRINT OnRamp, Creative Destruction Lab Quantum Bootcamp, and the National Security Innovation Network NSA2 program.

Dr. Aono was a recipient of the Michigan Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship and was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow on tenure with Michigan State University and Washington University in St. Louis. In 2014, he was a U.S. National Science Foundation GROW Fellow with the University of Tokyo in Japan.