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  • Professor & rCITI DIrector Taha Hossein Rashidi
    Professor & rCITI DIrector
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    Senior Lecturer & & rCITI Deputy DIrector Divya Jayakumar Nair
    Senior Lecturer & & rCITI Deputy DIrector
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    Professor Vinayak Dixit
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    Associate Professor Meead Saberi Kalaee
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    Senior Lecturer Elnaz Irannezhad
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    Research Associate
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    Research Associate Ali Najmi
    Research Associate
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    Mostafa Rahimi, Research Associate, rCITI
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    2024-08-30_Badal Pokharel
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    2024-08-26-SunhyungYoo
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    2024-08-26-Julius Secadiningrat
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    Centre Manager

    Contact details:
    (+61 2) 9385 5721
    maria.lee@unsw.edu.au

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    Alireza Raei  rCITI Full Stack Web Developer
    Full Stack Web Developer & Software Engineer

    Contact details:
    a.raei@unsw.edu.au

    2024-08-30_JohnBlack
    Emeritus Professor of Transport Engineering

    Contact details:
    j.black@unsw.edu.au

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    Sue McNeil, Emeritus Professor
    Visiting Professional Fellow
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    Adjunct Research Fellow
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    SeyedHossein Hosseini, Researcher
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    Visiting Fellow
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    Adjunct Senior Lecturer Wei Liu
    Adjunct Senior Lecturer
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    Adjunct Research Fellow David Rey
    Adjunct Research Fellow
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    Honorary Professor S Travis Waller
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    Technical Officer & Software Engineer

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    Research Assistant

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    Research Assistant

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    Research Assistant

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    2024-08-26- Lachlan Eshman

    Research Assistant

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    Research Assistant

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  • The rCITI Steering Committee exists to oversee and monitor the progress of the centre. Meeting at various times throughout the year, the committee works with the Director providing guidance to help rCITI achieve its mission to becoming a world-leading organisation in integrated interdisciplinary transport research and development.

    Members of the committee are drawn from across the university and from industry.The rCITI Steering Committee members include:

    • Member, Prof. Julien Epps (Dean -  Faculty of Engineering, UNSW)
    • Member, Prof. Nasser Khalili  (Head of School - Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW)
    • Member, Prof. Taha Hossein Rashidi (Director - Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), UNSW)
    • Member, Dr Divya Nair (Deputy Director - Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), UNSW)
    • Member, Prof. Scott Sisson, ( ARC Future Fellow - School of Mathematics and Statistics, Director - UNSW Data Science Hub, UNSW)
    • Admin, Maria Lee (rCITI, Centre Manager)
  • rCITI is supported by an Industry Advisory Panel comprising of  members from acdemia, industry and government organisations. The committee meet regularly with rCITI academics to promote the engagement of rCITI with Industry.

    Member Organisation
    Belinda Virant Managing Director Australia
    Arcadis 
    Danny Graham Former Head
    PPP Unit - NSW Treasury
    David Eyre CEO  
    Institute for Industrial Decarbonisation
    Dick Van de Dool Director 
    Barros van den Dool 
    Fernando Tiglio Managing Director  
    Qubist  
    Ian Mcintyre  Director 
    Ian McIntyre & Associates P/L
    John Hardwick Executive Director
    Asset Management - Transport for NSW
    Kam Tara Director  
    URaP International
    Marika Calfas CEO  
    NSW Ports
    Michael Regan Emeritus Professor
    Peter Duncan AM

    Managing Director
    Duncan Advisory Services

    Chair
    Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC)

    Chair
    WaterNSW

    Non-executive director
    Inland Rail Pty Ltd & Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service
    Chair
    NSW Local Government Boundaries Commission

    Board Member 
    James Martin Institute for Public Policy

    Board Member
    Infastructure NSW

    Raymond Golzar GM Corporate Development
    Transurban
    Rebecca Ives Scientia Professor
    UNSW
    Tim Parker CEO
    High Speed Rail Authority
       
    John Black Emeritus Professor 

    Taha Hossein Rashidi

    Director - rCITI & Professor

    Divya Nair Deputy Director - rCITI & Senior Lecturer

    Vinayak Dixit

    Professor

    Meead Saberi  Associate Professor 

    Elnaz (Elli) Irannezhad

    Senior Lecturer

    Maria Lee

    Centre Manager - rCITI

    Julius Secadiningrat

    TRACSLab Manager - rCITI