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navid.khademi@ut.ac.ir

Navid Khademi, PhD

Navid Khademi (ORCID: 0000-0003-2565-8194), Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the Department of Highway and Transportation Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Tehran. He is now the Director of the Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) since Nov. 2016; moreover, the Lab Director of Computer Graphics in Civil Engineering (CGC) Laboratory since Nov. 2018, both at the University of Tehran.

Post-Doc. (2015 – 2016), Le laboratoire Théorie économique, modélisation et applications (THEMA); UMR, CNRS, CY Cergy Paris Université, France

Ph.D. (2006-2012); (4years) Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran;
(1 year) Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (CES), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Université Paris-Saclay, Paris, France

Master of Science (Honours) (2003-2006), University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

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htaghaddos@ut.ac.ir

Hosein Taghaddos, PhD

Hosein Taghaddos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Construction Engineering and Management of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Tehran. He is the director of Tecnosa research center since 2016; moreover, the main faculty of the Computer Graphics in Civil Engineering (CGC) Laboratory since Nov. 2018, both at the University of Tehran.

PhD, Construction Engineering and Management,
Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2005 –2010
University of Alberta, Canada

MSc, Structure, Civil Engineering, , 2002 – 2004
University of Tehran, Iran

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Sayna Firoozi Yeganeh

PhD Candidate

sayna.firoozi@ut.ac.ir

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Sayna is a Ph.D. student in highway and transportation engineering. Her research interests focus on women’s travel behavior, in particular shared mobility choices. Her research draws from mixed methods to investigate what are the key factors influencing women’s mode choice and how. Sayna received her M.Sc. degree from Amirkabir University of Technology in 2016. Since 2019 she has been working as a research assistant at CGC lab.

PhD Thesis topic: Examining women behavior in ridesharing using hybrid choice modeling and in a virtual reality environment

Mohammad Arbabpour Bidgoli

Researcher

m.arbabpour@ut.ac.ir

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Mohammad is a researcher in Transportation Engineering at the CGC lab. His research primarily focuses on modeling users’ behaviors in active transport modes, with a specific interest in cycling. He obtained his M.Sc. in Road & Transportation Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology. In his current research, Mohammad employs a cycling simulator equipped with VR technology and an EEG device. This allows him to study cyclists’ behavioral and neurological responses in different cycling infrastructure designs, traffic conditions, built environments, and even varying weather conditions and times of day and night. By developing models and presenting indexes, Mohammad aims to gain a deeper understanding of cyclists’ perceptions and contribute to enhancing cycling safety and comfort.

Amir Zare

PhD Candidate

Amir.zare.kazem@ut.ac.ir

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Amir is a new member of CGC lab . Amir is a Ph.D. student of Transportation Eng. at the CGC lab. Amir received his M.Sc. degree from University of Tehran in 2021.

Kimia Afand

MSc student

kimia.afand@ut.ac.ir

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Kimia is a new member of CGC lab . She is an M.Sc student in Highway and Transportation Engineering at the University of Tehran as of 2020. Kimia received her B.Sc in Civil engineering from Shiraz University in 2018.

Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate at Purdue University

Ramin is now a postdoctoral Associate at Purdue University in the USA. He is a Graduated Ph.D. from Michigan State University.

His M.Sc. thesis topic at the University of Tehran was: Investigating the learning mechanism in the travelers’ day-to-day dynamic behavior

Amirmasoud Almotahari, PhD

Current position: Transportation Engineer at Parametrix, Las Vegas Metropolitan Area

Amirmasoud has been recruited as a transportation engineer at Parametrix Incorporation located in Las Vegas of the USA. He is a graduated Ph.D. from Stony Brook University, in New York.

His M.Sc. thesis topic at the University of Tehran was: Vulnerability analysis of transportation network based on route choice and departure time choice modeling of travelers

Mostafa (Yaser) Kouchakzadeh, MSc

Current Position: Teaching Assistant at University of Toronto

Yaser is now an M.Sc. student and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Toronto, Canada.

During his B.Sc. at the University of Tehran, he passed a very effective internship at CGCLab aiming at designing and implementing urban traffic virtual reality environments in the lab.

Collaboration in research with faculty members from Following universities:

Amirmasoud has been recruited as a transportation engineer at Parametrix Incorporation located in Las Vegas of the USA. He is a graduated Ph.D. from Stony Brook University, in New York.

His M.Sc. thesis topic at the University of Tehran was: Vulnerability analysis of transportation network based on route choice and departure time choice modeling of travelers