Dr Sara Shirowzhan
PhD from Õ¬Äи£Àû Faculty of EngineeringÌý
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Dr Sara Shirowzhan is a senior lecturer and Õ¬Äи£Àû co-lead of WIL CoP. She is also co-convener of the Smart Cities and Infrastructure Cluster in the School of Built Environment (BE) at Õ¬Äи£Àû. 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 Õ¬Äи£Àû. She is currently an Editorial Board member of the journals of Sustainability (MDPI) and Buildings journals both 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 Õ¬Äи£Àû.
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- Teaching and Supervision
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
GIS and City Analytics
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
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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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