Dr. Meead Saberi Kalaee

Biography

Meead Saberi Kalaee is a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. He received his PhD in Civil Environmental Engineering (Transportation Systems Analysis Planning) from Northwestern University in 2013, his MSc in Transportation Engineering from Portland State University in 2010, and his BEng in Civil Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran in 2007. His research interests cover a wide range of topics, including transportation systems analysis, traffic flow theory, network dynamics, large-scale transport network modeling and simulation, complex networks, pedestrian crowd dynamics, and urban data analytics visualization. With over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers authored, he has led and collaborated on numerous externally funded projects worth AUD 3 million since 2015, with support from organizations including the Australian Research Council, Transport NSW, and City of Sydney. Professor Saberi is also the co-founder and CEO of footpath.ai, a UNSW spin-out that employs GeoAI and computer vision to automate pedestrian infrastructure mapping and analysis. Additionally, he serves on the editorial boards of various journals in the field and has received multiple awards, including the UNSW Faculty of Engineering Academic Excellence Award in 2020.

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