Milad Haghani

Dr. Milad Haghani is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Sydney, and holds an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE210100440) for his work in crowd evacuation planning. He earned his PhD in Transport Engineering from the University of Melbourne and has held fellowships at the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne. His research spans transport safety, human factors, and meta-science, with particular emphasis on pedestrian dynamics and disaster preparedness.

• Education:
  • PhD in Transport Engineering, University of Melbourne
  • MSc in Transport Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
  • BSc in Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology
• Research Themes:
  • Crowd safety and evacuation modeling
  • Transport psychology and road safety
  • Econometric and choice modeling
  • Meta-research and science of science
  • Disaster mitigation and urban planning
  • Behavioral interventions in safety
• Scientific Recognition:
  • ARC DECRA Fellow (DE210100440, 2021-2024)

His publications (15 most recent) cover topics including pedestrian behavior, crowd accident analysis, emergency evacuation optimization, and transport safety policy. As a DECRA Fellow, he leads projects on behavioral interventions in crowd management. His work intersects transport engineering, human psychology, and disaster response systems, with applications in urban design, public security perception, and emergency logistics.

Dr. Haghani contributes to science of science through bibliometric analyses, examining research trends in fields like coronavirus studies, wildfire science, and digital health technologies. His methodological expertise spans discrete choice modeling and simulation-based research, including virtual reality applications for safety training.