Brydon Timothy Wang

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Dr Brydon Wang is a legal scholar specialising in the regulation of automation, datafication and AI in infrastructure delivery. His research focuses on how technologies such as large language models (LLMs), smart contracts in construction, and digital systems are reshaping legal reasoning, professional responsibility, and the transparency of decision-making. He works across construction law, technology regulation, and data governance, with a focus on climate-resilient urban and offshore development (including floating cities, buoyant urbanism and floating wind farms).

Brydon is dually qualified in law and architecture. He has practised as a technology and construction lawyer at Allens, and previously worked in contract administration on award-winning public infrastructure projects. His research spans digital twins, blockchain, and marine urbanism. He is lead editor of Automating Cities (Springer, 2021) and co-editor of Large Floating Structures (2015). His forthcoming edited collection, Large Floating Solutions, will be published by Springer in July 2025.

His PhD on trustworthiness in automated decision-making (including AI) and the law received the 2022 Executive Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis at QUT. He is also the recipient of the 2024 QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Early Career Teaching, the 2022 UQ Faculty Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and co-recipient of the 2023 Law School Award for Leadership in Teaching Innovation. His work has been featured on ABC Radio National’s "Future Tense" and Seeker’s documentary "How Close Are We to Living in the Ocean?"

Experience

  • 2018–present
    Legal Scholar and Honorary Fellow, University of Queensland
  • 2014–2018
    Technology and Construction Lawyer (Associate), Allens
  • 2016–2016
    Corporate Counsel (Secondee), Transurban

Education

  • 2022 
    Queensland University of Technology, PhD (Law)
  • 2014 
    Australian National University, Grad Dip Legal Practice
  • 2013 
    Monash University, Master of Laws (Juris Doctor)
  • 2007 
    Monash University, Master of Public Policy and Management
  • 2005 
    The University of Melbourne, BPD (Architecture) and BArch (Hon)

Publications

  • 2024
    Prompts and Large Language Models: A New Tool for Drafting, Reviewing and Interpreting Contracts?, Law, Technology and Humans
  • 2024
    Developing a sustainable and smart floating structure solution for enhancing liveability in Hong Kong's crowded built environment, World Conference on Floating Solutions
  • 2024
    An Updated Model of Trust and Trustworthiness for the use of Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in City Making, Association for Computing Machinery
  • 2024
    Floating Cities and Buoyant Urbanism in International Law, World Conference on Floating Solutions
  • 2023
    Regulatory Reform and the Potential User of Floating Artificial Reefs Under Blue Carbon and Ocean Carbon Methodologies, International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering
  • 2022
    Opportunities for further development of 3D-printed floating artificial reefs, Aquaculture and Marine Biology
  • 2021
    Automating Trustworthiness in Digital Twins, Springer
  • 2021
    The Seductive Smart City and the Benevolent Role of Transparency, Interaction Design and Architecture(s)
  • 2021
    Automating Cities: Design, Construction, Operation and Future Impact, Springer
  • 2021
    Augmenting Superintendent Discretion: Trustworthiness and the Automation of Construction Contracts, ANU Journal of Law and Technology
  • 2021
    Implementing COVIDSafe: The Role of Trustworthiness in Information Privacy Law, Law, Technology and Humans
  • 2021
    3D printing and housing: Intellectual Property and Construction Law, Springer
  • 2020
    Floating solutions for challenges facing humanity, International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering and Architecture
  • 2018
    Addressing financial fragility in the construction industry through the blockchain and smart construction contracts, Australian Construction Law Newletter
  • 2016
    Blockchain and the Law, Internet Law Bulletin
  • 2015
    Large Floating Structures, Springer

Grants and Contracts

  • 2024
    Regulatory Reform for Industrialised Building
    Role:
    Lead Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Building 4.0 CRC

Contact Brydon for

  • General
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration