Saiedeh Razavi

Overview

Saiedeh Razavi is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, the inaugural Chair in Heavy Construction, Co-Director of McMaster’s AI-enhanced Mobility Lab, and Co-Founder of Fluid Intelligence, a multimodal supply chain analytics unit through a strategic alliance with the Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority. She is also affiliated with the McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics (MITL) and the School of Earth, Environment, and Society. Razavi has a multidisciplinary background and considerable experience in collaborating and leading national and international multidisciplinary team-based projects in sensing and data acquisition, sensor technologies, data analytics, data fusion and their applications in safety, productivity, and mobility of transportation, construction, and other systems. She combines several years of industrial experience with academic teaching and research. Her formal education includes degrees in Computer Engineering (BSc), Artificial Intelligence (MSc) and Civil Engineering (PhD). Her research, funded by the Canadian Council (NSERC), as well as the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario, focuses on connected and automated vehicles, smart and connected work zones, and computational models for improving the safety and productivity of transportation infrastructure projects. Razavi brings together the private and public sectors with academia for the development of high-quality research in smarter mobility, construction and logistics.

Affiliations

• Professor
• Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University
• Professor, Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
• Associate Member, Earth, Environment & Society, Faculty of Science
• Associate Member, McMaster Institute for Transportation and Logistics (MITL)

Education

• BSc, Sharif University of Technology
• MSc, Iran University of Science and Technology
• PhD, University of Waterloo