Dr. Pouya Zangeneh

Assistant Professor

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Biography

Pouya Zangeneh is an Assistant Professor and Endowed Chair in Engineering Project Management at the Department of Civil Engineering within the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto, focusing on probabilistic modeling, knowledge representation, and socio-technical risks in engineering project systems. With over 12 years of experience in the engineering and construction industries, he has significantly contributed to the establishment of a Risk Analytics group at a top Canadian engineering consulting firm, which has advanced risk modeling services in industrial infrastructure sectors. Zangeneh has also collaborated with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investments, addressing transparency and governance risks in extractive natural resource projects. His research interests encompass a wide range of topics including project portfolios, inter-project relationships, risk management, and digitalization in project information systems, leveraging advanced methodologies such as probabilistic graphical networks, Bayesian statistics, statistical learning, AI and machine learning, and game theory.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Calgary

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6
Reading
Required:6
Writing
Required:6
Speaking
Required:6
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:20
Reading
Required:20
Writing
Required:20
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:97
GRE General
Verbal
Required:150
Quantitative
Required:159
Analytical Writing
Required:5.5
Overall
Required:5.5
Prerequisites
4-year Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent 3rd or 4th year course in Theory of Computation 3rd or 4th year course in Software Engineering 3rd or 4th year course in Systems (OS, Compilers, Networking) 3rd or 4th year course in Application (AI, Graphics, Databases)
Application Checklist
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Specialization Notes

Department of Computer Science Master's program. GRE scores are expected for international students.