Dr Sara Shirowzhan is the lecturer and the co-convener of the Smart Cities and Infrastructure Cluster in the School of Built Environment (BE) at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Sara’s areas of research in technologies relevant to the built environment include advanced GIS, nD BIM, sensing technologies, digital twins, and artificial intelligence for applications in construction, smart cities, infrastructure, and urban development. Sara teaches and supervises students on Construction Informatics and BIM relevant topics at postgrad level at UNSW. Sara completed her PhD in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW.

Sara is also a CIOB Tomorrow’s Leaders representative in Sydney working to assist young professionals in the early stages of their careers.