Dr Sara Shirowzhan
PhD from UNSW Faculty of EngineeringÌý
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Dr Sara Shirowzhan is a senior lecturer and UNSW co-lead of Work Integrated Learning Community of Practice. She also serves as the co-convener of the Smart Cities and Infrastructure Cluster in the School of Built Environment (BE) at UNSW. Sara’s areas of research in technologies relevant to the built environment include advanced GIS, nD BIM, sensing technologies, digital twins, and artificial intelligence for applications in sustainable and resilient cities (SDG11), smart cities, infrastructure, urban strategy development and construction. Sara teaches and supervises students on City Analytics, GIS, Construction Informatics and BIM relevant topics at undergrad and postgrad levels at UNSW. She is currently serving as an Editorial Board member for Nature/Scientific Reports, Sustainability (MDPI) and Buildings journals all Q1. She is also one of the recipients of the 2023 Outstanding Paper Award from the International Society for Digital Earth, in collaboration with Taylor & Francis and the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals.ÌýSara completed her PhD in Geomatics Engineering at UNSW.
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BIM/PIM and 3D GIS: progressing precinct modelling -Ìý$48,041
Western Sydney agri food analytics and mapping - $90,000
Improving coordination of data and actors for disaster-responsive housing and safer communities - AHURI- $164,881
2023 Outstanding paper award by The International Society for Digital Earth, in collaboration with Taylor & Francis and International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals, for our paper titled "City Digital Twins: Their Maturity Level and Differentiation from 3D City Models", link to the paper
PhD scholarship
Postdoctoral writing fellow
Best master’s thesis award
GIS and City Analytics
SDG11 -Sustainable and resilient cities and communitiesÌý
Net- Zero carbon
Remote Sensing e.g. lidar
BIM
Digital twins
Artificial intelligence (AI)/ Machine learning (ML)
Bushfire/flood analysisÌý
Housing developmentÌý
Digital constructionÌý
Construction informatics
SDG11 (sustainable cities and communities)
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Women in construction ambassadorÌý
Women in planning networkÌý
CIOB tomorrow’s leaders champion
Editorial Board member of Nature, Scientific Reports
Editorial Board member of Sustainability, MDPI
Editorial Board member of Buildings, MDPI
UNSW Built Environment Co- convenor of Smart Cities and Infrastructure cluster
UNSW Co-lead of Work Integrated Learning Community of PracticeÌý
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My Teaching
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Urban and Construction Informatics
GIS for the Built Environment
ICT and BIM
Digital Construction
GeodesignÌý
Geo-computation with R (the course contains spatial statistics and AI for geospatial field)
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