CityX Lab @UNSW

Congratulations to Dr. Ingrida Steponavice (research fellow jointly supervised by Dr. Mohsen Ramezani at the University of Sydney) for acceptance of her abstract for presentation at the NetSci 2017, the flagship conference of the Network Science Society, which will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana in June 2017.

Steponavic, I., Ramezani, M., Saberi, M. (2017) Detecting Community Structure in Mobility Networks. Submitted to the NetSci 2017, 21-23 June, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Today the Monash Infrastructure (MI) Institute was launched by the Honourable Wade Noonan MP, Minister for Industry and Employment and Minister for Resources, Professor Margaret Gardner AO, President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Frieder Seible, Dean of Faculties of Engineering and IT, and Professor Ana Deletic, Associate Dean of Research of the Faculty of Engineering and Director of the MI. CityX research is well situated within the focus areas of the MI, namely transport and urban planning and management research.

Congratulations to Homayoun Hamedmoghadam-Rafati (incoming PhD student), Dr. Ingrida Steponavice and Dr. Reza Mohajerpoor (research fellows jointly supervised by Dr. Mohsen Ramezani at University of Sydney) for acceptance of their papers for presentation at the 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC 2017) which will be held in Toulouse, France in July 2017.

Hamedmoghadam-Rafati, H., Steponavic, I., Ramezani, M., Saberi, M. (2017) A Complex Network Analysis of Macroscopic Structure of Taxi Trips. Submitted to the 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 9-14 July, Toulouse, France.

Mohajerpoor, R., Saberi, M., Ramezani, M. (2017) Delay Variability Optimization Using Shockwave Theory for an Undersaturated Isolated Intersection. Submitted to the 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 9-14 July, Toulouse, France.

Dr. Saberi spent a few weeks in the US in February 2017, visiting, initiating collaboration, and giving seminars at MIT, Michigan State University, and University of South Florida. Thanks to Dr. Ali Zockaie, Dr. Mehrnaz Ghamami, Dr. Neema Nassir, Dr. Marta Gonzalez, and Dr. Robert Bertini for the hospitality and organizing the visits.