Zahra Amini: Background

Zahra Amini: Background

Background

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA. (August 2015 – May 2018)
Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA. (August 2014 – May 2015)
M.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA. (August 2011 – December 2013)
B.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Working Experience

(August 2018 – August 2019) Postdoctoral Researcher in Sharif University, Department of Civil Engineering.

(May 2018 – August 2018) Researcher in California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH).

(2016 – August 2018) Research collaboration with Sensys Networks Inc..

Honors

(2018) IEEE Control Systems Society Best Student Paper Award for the paper Optimizing Offsets in Signalized Traffic Networks: A Case Study presented at 2nd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2018.

(2016) Summer Block Grant Fellowship form UC Berkeley.

(2015) Best presentation analysis for the talk Exploring alternative schemes to serve transit corridors at UCConnect conference, UC Santa Barbara.

(2014) University of California Transportation Center’s Fellowship.