Saeid Saidi

Dr. Saeid Saidi

Ph.D., P.Eng.

Positions

Associate Professor

Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering

Contact information

Web presence

Phone number

office: 403.2207.479

Location

Office: ENF258

Preferred method of communication

Email

Background

Educational Background

B.Sc. Industrial and Systems Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2008

M.Sc. Civil Engineering - Transportation Specialization , University of Calgary, 2010

Ph.D. Civil Engineering - Transportation Specialization , University of Calgary, 2016

Postdoctoral Fellowship. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019

Biography

Dr. Saeid Saidi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Calgary. Prior to join the University of Calgary, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a member of the MIT Transit Lab. He earned his PhD and MSc in civil engineering with transportation engineering and planning specialization from the University of Calgary.  He received his bachelor degree in industrial and system engineering from the Sharif University of Technology.

He is a member of Rail Transit Systems Committee (AP065) at the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies and is a recipient of several awards including NSERC PDF, NSERC CGS, and Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship.

Research

Areas of Research

Intelligent and autonomous systems
optimization and decision support
Transportation systems analysis
Big data analytics
Systems engineering
Public transportation planning and operations

Dr. Saidi’s main research activities are on transportation network modeling, public transportation planning and operation, and big data analytics using mobility sensing data. He is working on different applications of data analytics in transportation systems to create actionable intelligence for cities and transportation authorities.

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
ENCI 604 Uncertainty, Risk and Reliability Winter 2024
ENCI 595 System Dynamics Modeling for Urban and Engineering Sustainability Winter 2024
ENCI 604 Uncertainty, Risk and Reliability Winter 2023
ENCI 711 Advanced Analysis and Modeling of Public Transit Systems Fall 2023
ENCI 711 Advanced Analysis and Modeling of Public Transit Systems Winter 2023
ENCI 595 System Dynamics Modeling for Urban and Engineering Sustainability Winter 2023
ENCI 504 Uncertainty Concepts in Civil Engineering Winter 2022
ENCI 711 Advanced Analysis and Modeling of Public Transit Systems Winter 2022
ENCI 595 System Dynamics Modeling for Urban and Engineering Sustainability Fall 2021
ENCI 711 Advanced Analysis and Modeling of Public Transit Systems Winter 2021
ENCI 504 Uncertainty Concepts in Civil Engineering Winter 2021

Awards

  • Early Research Excellence Award, Schulich School of Engineering . 2023
  • Award for Teaching Excellence, Schulich School of Engineering . 2023
  • Remote Teaching Award, Schulich School of Engineering . 2021
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, NSERC. 2017
  • Alexander Graham Bell Canada Scholarship, NSERC. 2013
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship, Killam Trust. 2013

Publications