Congratulations to Weixiao Gao and Ivan Pađen on Winning Open Science Awards! 🎉
Oct 22, 2025

We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Weixiao Gao and Ivan Pađen have been honoured in the Open Science Awards of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.

This award recognises their exceptional commitment to advancing open, transparent, and collaborative research practices.

• Dr. Weixiao Gao received the Researcher Award for his project “SUMs: Open-source tools and data sets for understanding urban environments from oblique aerial images.”

• Ivan Pađen received the Student Award for his project “City4CFD: An open-source tool for creating CFD simulation-ready 3D models of cities.”

Their work embodies the spirit of Open Science by creating valuable, reusable resources for the wider scientific community. Congratulations to both on this well-deserved recognition! 🎉