Mohammad Movahedi, EIT

• Conduct multidisciplinary research in sustainable built environments, construction automation, data-driven decision-making, transportation systems, reinforcement learning, housing recovery, and supply chains.
• Collaborate with public- and private-sector stakeholders to align research methods with community challenges and decision needs.

• Contributed to freight, comprehensive transportation, and airport master plans.
• Conducted demographic and economic studies, built user-centered planning software, developed traffic simulations, and integrated multimodal safety audits into master planning.

• Support a GIS-based software solution for road-sign design and maintenance.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and optimize features for end users.

Construction and Infrastructure Management. Dissertation: A Holistic Approach to Long-Term Building Maintenance Planning under Uncertainty to Maximize Recoverable Material Yields.

Thesis: Adaptive Grid-Wide Traffic Signal Control with Reinforcement Learning.

Research project: automated pavement distress, right-of-way violation, and safety-hazard detection from street-view images using Mask R-CNN.

1. Data collection from field investigations during debris removal operations after Hurricane Ian, DesignSafe-CI, 2024. DOI: 10.17603/ds2-m7zs-xr98.
2. RAPID: investigating illegal dumping during debris collection operations following Hurricane Ian, DesignSafe-CI, 2024.
3. Inter-regional mitigation planning coordination and integration of social vulnerability and housing assessment, 2024.
4. Florida Index for Transportation robustness assessment reports: trend analysis, robustness analysis, statistical analysis, and literature review, 2022-2023.

Developing a large-language-model (LLM)–based persona-analysis tool to simulate hurricane evacuation travel behavior in rural Florida Panhandlecommunities.

Reviewed post-disaster plans, modeled housing-reconstruction supply-chain resilience, studied disaster-related homelessness, formulated mitigation strategies, and collaborated with agencies and recovery experts.

Led demolition-site data collection, developed an advanced case-based reasoning model and a POMDP maintenance-planning framework, formulated 150+ component deterioration models, and collaborated with USACE and private contractors.

Sourced and validated infrastructure data, led sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, interpreted composite-index outcomes, documented findings, and engaged FDOT stakeholders.

Organized behavioral questionnaire analysis, mapped debris generation and dumping patterns through field studies, and investigated debris trajectories at temporary debris-management sites.

Coordinated collection of perishable post-disaster data and developed strategies to reuse and recycle disaster debris.

• Generative AI and VR for building-component inspection training, CIB World Building Congress, May 2025.
• Sustainable building maintenance and material recovery, CIB Doctoral School, March 2025.
• Electric-vehicle charging robustness during extreme weather, ASCE ICTD, June 2024.
• Demolition-waste volume and cost estimation methods, Construction Research Congress, March 2024.
• AI and traffic-control poster, ITE Book Scholarship Competition, November 2024.

• Future Faculty Award, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University, April 2026.
• Congress of Graduate Students Travel Award, Florida State University, March 2026.
• Congress of Graduate Students Travel Award, Florida State University, May 2025.
• 2nd place, NHERI Graduate Student Council Data Challenge, May 2025.
• 1st place, ITE Book Scholarship Competition, November 2024.
• Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Research Excellence Award, October 2024.
• Editor's Choice, ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering, October 2024.
• Congress of Graduate Students Travel Award, Florida State University, June 2024.
• 2nd place, American Airlines Data Science Challenge second round, May 2024.
• 2nd place, American Airlines Data Science Challenge first round, April 2024.
• Congress of Graduate Students Travel Award, Florida State University, February 2024.

Presented Monte Carlo simulation applications in civil engineering to undergraduate EESI students.

Presented circular-economy opportunities in post-disaster redevelopment for Infrastructure System of Systems Analysis and Planning.

• Supported Construction Engineering, Highway Geometric Design, and Transportation Engineering for 150+ undergraduate students.
• Led teaching sessions, graded assignments and exams, and provided one-on-one support.

Taught Highway Geometric Design across four semesters to 120 undergraduate students and designed a project-based learning curriculum.

Mentored two NSF REU students in construction automation, research design, coding, scientific communication, vehicle-activity identification, and dead reckoning.

Mentored six students in asset management, including virtual-reality and generative-AI applications.

• Be an Engineer Summer Camp, July 2025: introduced high-school students to VR applications for demolition and construction automation.
• RIDER Open House, 2023-2025: demonstrated VR, generative AI, sustainable demolition, and asset-management applications.
• Tallahassee Science Festival, November 2024: engaged 200+ participants with interactive sustainable-demolition and automation demonstrations.
• Workshop on Sustainable Demolition, October 2024: engaged 30+ university and industry participants.
• Demolition Material Harvesting Educational Workshop, April 2024: supported discussions and course-module development with participants from six universities.

Organized workshops, networking events, career-development initiatives, and the North Florida ITE Graduate Research Poster Competition. The chapter received 2025 Momentum Awards at district and international levels.

Helped establish the association and organized professional-development workshops, networking events, and a department-wide research poster competition.

Served as Reconnaissance, Simulation, and Computational Methods representative; contributed to grant-writing efforts; and organized workshops and research presentations.

Organized seven cultural events to promote community engagement and cross-cultural understanding.

• IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Transport, Infrastructure Asset Management, and Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICE)
• Multimodal Transportation (Elsevier)
• Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting