Abdolmajid Erfani

Dr. Abdolmajid Erfani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering at Michigan Technological University. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park (2023), an MSc in Construction Engineering and Management from the University of Tehran (2019), and a BSc in Civil Engineering from the same university (2017). His research focuses on construction economics, smart construction technologies, data-driven infrastructure management, workforce development, and AI applications in project delivery.

Dr. Erfani leads studies on workforce equity in transportation and construction industries, leveraging big data and natural language processing. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers and received prestigious ASCE awards including the 2024 Arthur M. Wellington Prize and Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize. He serves on the editorial board of the ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering.

His recent grants include a National Cooperative Highway Research Program project (PI, 2024–2027) on price adjustment clauses for construction risk sharing and a Minnesota DOT-funded initiative (PI, 2025–2027) on leveraging transportation investments for economic equity. He also co-leads a Federal Railway Administration project (Co-PI, 2025–2028) aimed at promoting railroading careers.

Research interests span equity analysis, AI modeling, and predictive analytics for infrastructure resilience. He integrates LinkedIn data and machine learning to study gender disparities in career progression, achieving groundbreaking insights in leadership dynamics within construction sectors.