Juan DiegoCastaño M.

Founder of Twynable and research assistant at NYUAD S.M.A.R.T. Construction, Abu Dhabi based. Currently building AI systems that let a facilities team read a building the way an engineer reads a system.

01 / Selected work

What I'm building

Twynable platform: the digital twin interface

Twynable: Google Maps for a building

Founded an AI platform that gives maintenance teams a live 3D copy of their building. Won first place at the NYUAD incubator.

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The scanning robot on the construction site

A robot that scans a construction site on its own

Built a mobile robot that maps an active construction site by itself, then stops at chosen points to take survey-grade laser scans.

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An air quality assistant that cites its sources

Built an AI assistant that answers air quality questions straight from the standards, citing the source behind every claim as it writes.

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Ten campus spaces you can walk through in 3D

Captured ten real spaces with a 360° camera and rebuilt them as 3D Gaussian splats: photorealistic models you can move through.

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I build software for the physical world, where the ground truth is a chiller that fails at 3am and a floor plan that stopped matching the floor years ago.

02 / Research

S.M.A.R.T. Construction Research Group

Three peer-reviewed papers and ongoing work at NYU Abu Dhabi's S.M.A.R.T. Construction Research Group: edge perception, indoor environmental forecasting, standards-grounded retrieval and 3D capture.

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How I work

I believe collaboration and speed are what make a team work. I balance research rigour with polished execution to build systems where measurable results meet an interface people actually trust.

Away from the work

Outside the work I enjoy music, follow Formula 1 very closely, and spend my time with friends around Abu Dhabi. I keep a running list of things I want to build that are not software.

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