Dr Elnaz Irannezhad

Dr Elnaz Irannezhad

Senior Lecturer

PhD, the University of Queensland, 2018

Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering

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 an...

E-mail
e.irannezhad@unsw.edu.au
Location
Civil Engineering Building (H20), Room 105, Kensington Campus

Research interests:

  • Agent-based freight transport modelling
  • Behavioural transport modelling
  • Blockchain, Logistics 4.0, IoT, and digital supply chain
  • Automated trucks and heavy vehicles
  • Decarbonising heavy vehicle industry and hydrogen fuel cell trucks
  • Circular economy and supply chain
  • Decision Support Systems

Elli is an Associate of the UNSW's Australian Human Rights Institute and engages in human rights activities and projects. She also serves as the Equity, Diversion, and Inclusion (EDI) Officer at the School of Civil Engineering. Elli co-leads the JINA Program, a Pilot Program tailored for supporting, mentoring and networking the UNSW's female students with forced migration and refugee background (see the video). 

Elli is the co-chair of the Bridging Transport Researchers (BTR) Conference, and the guest editor of BTR Special issue of the Journal of Transport Planning and Technology. BTR is an online free peer-reviewed conference for connecting transport researchers around the globe and aims to remove the burden of travel and obtaining visa, the cost of registration, & greenhouse gases associated with transport & accommodations. The first round was run in 2019 and after COVID, it has continued every year.

 

 

My Research Supervision

  • PhD supervision, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (2023 – ongoing), Sustainable Freight Transport Framework Assessment for Perishable Agricultural Products (Role: Primary advisor)
  • PhD co-supervision, University of New South Wales- Canberra (2022 – ongoing), Explainable AI for Risk Management in Container Supply Chain (Role: Co-advisor)
  • Master’s Research Project, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (2023 – ongoing), Agent-based simulation of Port Container Terminals (Role: Primary advisor)
  • Master’s Research Project, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (2022 – 2023), LogisticChain: a Blockchain-based Supply Chain Model (Role: Primary advisor)

My Teaching

  • ENGG1400: Infrastructure Systems Engineering (Focus: Operation Research and Systems Modelling)
  • CVEN9421: Transport Logistics Engineering (Focus: Logistics Engineering and Modelling)
  • CVEN3402: Transport Engineering and Environmental Sustainability ( Focus: Transport Emission Modelling)