
PhD from UNSW Faculty of Engineering
Dr Sara Shirowzhan is a senior lecturer and UNSW 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 UNSW. 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 UNSW. She is currently an Editorial Board member of the journals of Sustainability (MDPI) and Buildings journal. She is also a Topic Board member of the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information as well as Review Editor of Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. Sara completed her PhD in Geomatics Engineering at UNSW.
BIM/PIM and 3D GIS: progressing precinct modelling - $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
PhD scholarship
Postdoctoral writing fellow
Best master’s thesis
GIS and City Analytics
BIM
Digital twins
Artificial intelligence (AI)/ Machine learning (ML)
Bushfire/flood analysis
Housing development
Digital construction
Construction informatics
SDG11 (sustainable cities and communities)
Women in construction ambassador
Women in planning network
CIOB tomorrow’s leaders champion
My Teaching
Urban and Construction Informatics
GIS for the Built Environment
ICT and BIM
Digital Construction
Geodesign
Geo-computation with R (the course contains spatial statistics and AI for geospatial field)