Elyar Pourrahimian

Elyar Pourrahimian is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Engineering, specifically within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. He teaches courses such as CIV E 303 - Project Management (Winter Term 2026) and CIV E 601 - Analytical Methods for Project Management (Fall Term 2025), focusing on project planning, scheduling, and control methodologies.

His research interests span

• Construction Management
• Project Management
• Artificial Intelligence Applications in Engineering
• Chaos Theory in Project Planning
• Fuzzy Systems in Labour Productivity
• Bayesian Inference in Construction Simulation

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Recent publications highlight trends in construction workspace optimization (2025), chaos and fuzzy systems for productivity analysis (2025-2022), and machine learning frameworks (2024) for construction monitoring. He also explores multidimensional project control (2024) and socio-technical lean management frameworks (2024).