Mehrnaz Ghamami
Contact Information
Phone:
(517) 355-1288
Email:
ghamamim@msu.edu
Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Associate Professor
Biography
Dr. Mehrnaz Ghamami is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Ghamami’s research is focused on transportation systems analysis, with applications in sustainable transportation, transit operations and travel reliability. She has developed a comprehensive modeling framework for analyzing various policy and planning issues related to plugin electric vehicles. She has also conducted research on urban travel reliability using consumer GPS data (funded by Transportation Research Board) and operational reliability of bus routes for Chicago Transit Authority (funded by Center for Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technology).
Education
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University 2015
- M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University 2015
- B.S., Civil Engineering, Sharif University of Technology 2008
Research Interests
- Transportation Systems Analysis
- Sustainable Transportation Applications
- Transit Operations
- Travel Reliability
Selected Publications
- Kavianipour, M., Verbas, O., Rostami, A., Soltanpour, A.*, Gurumurthy, K. M., Ghamami, M., & Zockaie, A. (2023). Deploying Fast Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles in Urban Networks: An Activity-Based Approach. Transportation Research Record, 03611981231189742.
- Singh, H.*, Kavianipour, M., Ghamami, M., & Zockaie, A., (2023). Adoption of autonomous and electric vehicles in private and shared mobility systems, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Vol. 115, 103561.
- Kavianipour, M., Mozafari, H.*, Kamjoo, E., Zockaie, A., Ghamami, M., Jackson, R. (2023). Effects of electric vehicle adoption for state-wide intercity trips on emission saving and energy consumption, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 17(8), 883-896.
- Kamjoo, E., Saedi, R., Zockaie, A., Ghamami, M., Gates, T., & Talebpour, A., (2023). Developing Car-Following Models for Winter Maintenance Operations Incorporating Machine Learning Methods, Transportation Research Record, 2677(2), 519-540.
- Soltanpour, A*, Ghamami, M., Nicknam, M., Ganji, M., (2023) Charging Infrastructure and Schedule Planning for a Public Transit Network with a Mixed Fleet of Electric and Diesel Buses, Transportation Research Record, 2677(2), 1053-1071.
MSU Scholar
Awards
- Recognition of Outstanding Subcommittee Leadership and Paper Review Coordination (AMS30) (2024)
- Recognition of Outstanding Subcommittee Leadership and Paper Review Coordination (AMS30) (2023)
- Recognition for Leadership Integrating Travel Demand and Energy Committee (ADB40) (2019)
- Walter & Pauline Adams Academy of Instructional Excellence and Innovation Fellow The academy advocates for instructional innovation, and 12 fellows are selected each year. The selection is based on instructional excellence. The academy was a one-year commitment to learning new teaching techniques, finding applications for each technique, and discussing the challenges (2019)
- Certificate of Appreciation- In recognition for leadership integrating travel demand and energy communities for TRB standing committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting (ADB40) Recognition as the chair of Integrated Transport Modeling subcommittee for planning and organizing various events including but not limited to workshops and conference sessions with the goal of bringing researchers from various subdisciplines together and encouraging integrated approaches in transport modeling as an emerging field of research (2019)
- In Classroom Critical Thinking, Teaching Certificate, Oakton College, Chicago Certificate for Implementing and Application of critical thinking approaches in variety of science and engineering courses as an adjunct faculty at Oakton College (2015)
- Dissertation Year Fellowship NUTC, Northwestern University (2014)
- The Crown Family Graduate Internship, Northwestern University (2014)
- Third Place Winner of the student essay competition, ITS World Congress (2011)
- “Brilliant Talented Student Title” from Iran Graduate and Admission Office (2003)
