About Infratico.

Dr. Nizar Lajnef is a professor of Civil Engineering at Michigan State University. He leads the Computational Sensors Laboratory. His research includes sensors for structural health and usage monitoring, infrastructure instruments for smart cities, and damage-detection algorithms.

Dr. Lajnef is the author of more than 140 peer-reviewed publications. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He is also the founding chair of the Data Sensing and Analytics committee.

Kenji Aono was the first Infratico employee and is the current President. He has a PhD in computer engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. He also has an MS in electrical engineering from Michigan State University.

Kenji has more than 10 years of academic research in custom silicon and machine learning. He is an IEEE Senior Member. He has participated in NSF I-Corps, MassChallenge, and other business programs.

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