Pouya Zangeneh
Positions
Assistant Professor
Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering
Endowed Chair in Engineering Project Management
Schulich School of Engineering, Centre for Project Management Excellence
Contact information
Preferred method of communication
Please contact me via email
Background
Educational Background
PhD University of Toronto, 2021
MSc University of Calgary, 2011
BSc University of Tehran, 2008
Biography
Pouya Zangeneh is an Assistant Professor and the Endowed Chair in Engineering Project Management in the Department of Civil Engineering at the Schulich School of Engineering and the University of Calgary.
He received his PhD from the University of Toronto for his research on probabilistic modeling, knowledge representation, and socio-technical risks within projects and engineering systems. In addition, he has collaborated with the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investments on extractive natural resource projects, transparency issues, and governance risks.
Dr. Zangeneh has more than 12 years of experience in the Engineering and Construction industries. He helped establish the Risk Analytics group at a top Canadian international engineering consulting firm. The group grew to commercialize various advanced risk modeling services within the industrial and infrastructure sectors under his supervision. Before his doctoral degree, he worked as a structural dynamics engineer within the industrial sector, where he conducted multiple projects and studies within the Energy sector (such as Oil and Gas, Hydro, and Renewables) and the Mining sector (such as Steel, Nickel, Aluminum, Copper, and Gold) across the world.
Research
Areas of Research
- Project Portfolios and Inter-project Relationships
- Project Financing and Risk Pricing (Industrial, Infrastructure, & PPPs)
- Project Complexities, Socio-technical Risks, and De-risking Strategies
- Risk Management, Modeling, and Analytics
- Project Information Systems, Digitalization, and Analytics
- Risk Based Asset Management
- Probabilistic Graphical Networks and Bayesian Statistics
- Interdependency Modelling, Linked Data and Ontology Engineering
- Statistical Learning, AI & ML, and Reinforcement Learning
- Game Theory, Simulation, and System Dynamics
- Mixed Methods, and Case Studies
- Prospective PhD and MSc Graduate Students: Candidates interested in the above research areas and methodologies with excellent credentials from Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Applied Statistics, and Development Studies backgrounds may contact me with their complete CVs. Please specify your email subject as “Prospective Graduate Student – Your Name.”
- Undergraduate Internships: Undergraduate Candidates for summer internships interested in project management and the above research areas and methodologies may contact me with their complete CVs. Please specify your email subject as “Undergraduate Internships – Your Name.”
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Publications
More Information
I will consider offering the following subjects as deep-dive independent study courses for current UofC graduate students in case we are able to form groups of three or more students. Student interested may contact me with their complete CVs. Please specify your email subject as “Independent Study – Your Name.”
- Bayesian Networks and Bayesian Statistics for Risk Modelling
- Engineering Megaprojects: Development and Project Financing
- Game Theory and Applications in Projects
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