Dr. Fatemeh (Noosheen) Nazari
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Edinburg:EACSB 1.207
(956) 665-8812
fatemeh.nazari@utrgv.edu
Research Laboratory:
H-SMART Lab
Education
- Ph.D., Civil (Transportation) Engineering, the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, 2019
- M.S., Civil (Transportation) Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran, 2013
- B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Zanjan, Iran, 2010
Bio
Dr. Nazari joined the Department of Civil Engineering in 2019 where she initiated the Human-Centered Smart Transportation Research Lab. She is a faculty affiliate of the NSF CREST Center for Multidisciplinary Research Excellence in Cyber-Physical Infrastructure Systems (MECIS) at UTRGV where her role is Co-PI, lead of a research track on sensing-based infrastructure management, and collaborator on two other research tracks on automation and artificial intelligence.
Research Interests
- Travel behavior/demand analysis for smart transportation systems (automated, electrified, and shared mobility)
- Human-technology interaction
- Smart infrastructure health monitoring and maintenance
- Economics; Psychology; Artificial intelligence and big data analytics; Optimization
Teaching
- Graduate-level courses
- Introduction to Data Science (fall'21)
- Advanced Transportation Engineering (fall'20)
- Undergraduate-level courses
- Transportation Engineering (fall'19, spring'20, spring'21, spring'22)
- Highway Engineering (spring'21, spring'22)
Professional Service
- Member of the National Academies Transportation Research Board (TRB) Standing Committee on 'Travel Behavior and Values' AEP30 (2020-present)
- Faculty advisor, Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) UTRGV student chapter