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Arsalan Heydarian

Associate Professor
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About

Arsalan Heydarian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as the UVA Link Lab. His research focuses on the user-centered design, construction, and operation of intelligent infrastructure, aiming to enhance sustainability, adaptability, and resilience. His work is organized into four primary research streams: (1) intelligent built environments, (2) mobility and infrastructure design, (3) smart transportation, and (4) data-driven mixed reality. Dr. Heydarian holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and an M.Sc. in Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), along with B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech. He is also a co-founder of the Omni Reality and Cognition Lab (ORCL Lab), a cutting-edge facility that utilizes virtual and augmented reality technologies to study human behavior and responses to various infrastructure designs.

 

I'm interested in integrating human considerations within the design and operation of our infrastructure systems. Specifically, my research focuses on how our buildings and cars can sense our behaviors and collaborate with us in achieving our personal goals or how transportation systems should be designed to accommodate all users by enhancing well-being, safety and comfort.

Arsalan Heydarian

Research Interests

Intelligent built environments (smart buildings)
Infrastructure design to enhance mobility, safety, and comfort (mobility)
User-centered autonomous vehicles and smart transportation systems (smart transportation)
Data-driven mixed reality (VR/AR)
Construction automation

Selected Publications

"Towards user centered building design: Identifying end-user lighting preferences via immersive virtual environments," Automation in Construction 81: 56-66, 2017 A. Heydarian, E. Pantazis, a. Wang, D. Gerber, B. Becerik-gerber
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"Lights, building, action: Impact of default lighting settings on occupant behaviour," Journal of Environmental Psychology 48: 212–223, 2016 A. Heydarian, E. Pantazis, J. P. Carneiro, D.gerber, B. Becerik-gerber
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"Use of immersive virtual environments for occupant behaviour monitoring and data collection," 2016. A. Heydarian, B. Becerik-gerber
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"Immersive virtual environments versus physical built environments: A benchmarking study for building design and user-built environment explorations," Automation in Construction 54: 116-126, 2015 A. Heydarian, J. P. Carneiro, D. Gerber, B. Becerik-gerber, T. Hayes, W. Wood
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"Vision-based action recognition of earthmoving equipment using spatio-temporal features and support vector machine classifiers," Advanced Engineering Informatics 27: 652-663, 2013. M. Golparvar-fard, a. Heydarian, J.C. Niebles
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