MrAmirreza Kandiri

Dr Amirreza Kandiri is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Civil Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), specialising in transportation engineering, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and infrastructure resilience. He completed his PhD at UCD, where he developed AI-based methods for real-time traffic prediction and optimisation under variable speed limits, with a focus on improving highway travel times. With a background in civil engineering and an MSc in Construction Management, his wider research interests include structural materials, smart mobility, and data-driven modelling. He has also contributed extensively to teaching at UCD and Chang’an University in China.

Dr Kandiri actively supports academic service as a peer reviewer for journals and a member of the UTSG 2025 organising committee. He is a recipient of the 2024 Dean’s Award from the UCD STEM Early Career Researchers’ Symposium and was previously recognised for publishing one of the most cited papers of the year in Applied Sciences.