About Infratico.

Dr. Nizar Lajnef is a professor of Civil Engineering at Michigan State University and the head of the Computational Sensors Laboratory. His research includes sensor design for structural health and usage monitoring, infrastructure instrumentation for smart cities, and damage detection algorithms.

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 and the founding chair of the Data Sensing and Analytics committee.

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.

Kenji has over a decade of academic research in custom silicon and machine learning with recognition as an IEEE Senior Member. He has participated in NSF I-Corps, MassChallenge, and other entrepreneurial programs.

Dr. Aono was a Michigan Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellow and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.