Maziar Yazdani

Maziar Yazdani is a Research Associate at the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, UNSW.

Maziar’s multidisciplinary research focuses primarily on optimisation methods in Disaster Risk Management as well as applications of artificial intelligence (AI), knowledge-based systems, and computational intelligence, including neural networks and evolutionary computations, to complex engineering problems.

Maziar submitted his PhD thesis at the School of the Built Environment at UNSW, focusing on developing an evacuation support system using integrated simulation-optimisation models for healthcare infrastructure in Australia in response to major flood events. Maziar has published more than 30 papers in prestigious engineering journals.

Currently, he serves on the editorial boards of a number of leading optimisation and modelling journals, including the Journal of Computational Design and Engineering (ISSN 2288-4300). In addition to the academic experience, Maziar has extensive industry experience as a senior project planner in four countries on several large-scale international construction projects.