Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation

Dr Elnaz (Elli) Irannezhad is a Senior Lecturer in transport engineering at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Elli's research contributes to the advancement of science in cross-disciplinary fields of transport engineering, logistics engineering, automated vehicles, decarbonisation and blockchain technology. She has over 16 years of combined research and industry experience in modelling, simulation, optimisation, and machine learning. Elli endeavours her research closely with the industry to ensure a good alignment with real-world needs and industry uptake.

She received her PhD at the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Queensland (UQ) (2014-2017). Prior to that, she worked in the transport industry as a senior transport engineer in Iran for nine years. Her PhD was on behavioural freight transport modelling in which she contributed to the field of behavioural agent-based modelling and operation research. From 2017 to 2020, she completed a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship at UQ’s Business Faculty on a partnership project with the Port of Brisbane. From 2020 to 2022, she acted as a Principal Engineer and the Portfolio Leader of Next Generation Transport Systems at the Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) where she led several projects in automated driving technologies and sensors, infrastructure readiness for autonomous vehicles, smart heavy vehicle access monitoring and heavy vehicle origin-destination modelling. Elli joined UNSW in March 2022 as a Senior Lecturer. 

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