Bijan Vafaei

EDUCATION

[Sept 2010–present] B.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Total GPA (up to now): 16.95/20, last five semesters GPA: 17.90/20

(Expected Graduation July 2015) [2009–2010] Pre-University Certificate

"Salaam 1" Pre-University School, Tehran, IRAN

GPA = 19.56/20

[2006–2009] Diploma in Mathematics and Physics

"Mesbah" High School, Tehran, IRAN

GPA = 19.65/20

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Urban Network Design and Safety

Multi-Modal Transportation Networks,

Traffic Operations, Mathematical Modeling and Simulation

Relevant Courses: Traffic and Highway Engineering/ Highway project/ Transportation Engineering/

Engineering Economic/ Transportation Planning (listener)/ Operation Research (listener)

AWARDS AND HONORS

[2012- 2015] Ranked as Top 10% in cumulative GPA among the students of Civil

Engineering, Class of 2010 Students.

[September 2014] Certificate of attendance on US-Iran Symposium on Resilient Cities,

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

[Summer 2014] Accepted application for Summer Internship program at the

University of Arizona, Tucson, USA under supervision of Prof. YC Chiu

[2012-2014] Certificate of attendance on the 11th, 12th and 13th International

Conference on Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Tehran, Iran.

[2013-2014] Certificate of attendance on the 4th International Conference on

Seismic Retrofitting, Tehran, Iran and 5th International Conference on

Natural Disaster Management, Tehran, Iran.

[July 2012] Ranked 2nd in GPA among all of Civil Engineering students, since my

GPA has been improved noticeably.

Date of birth:

April 14th 1992

Contact Info:

vafaei_bijan@dena.sharif.edu ir.linkedin.com/in/bijanvafaei/

Phone : +98-21-22-83-30-32 +98-912-619-2088

PO box: 19369-53858 , Tehran, Iran

[October 2012] Certificate of ULTRASONIC TESTING (UT LEVEL II) Receive the certificate of attendance on 40 hours training ULTRASONIC

TESTING (UT LEVEL II) and meet the requirement according to

SNT-TC-1A of American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) Under supervision of Prof. M. Behzad (Chairman in Center for Training

Workshops, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN) Instructor: Behnam Rabiee (ASNT NDT LEVEL III FILE NO: 157001)

[2010] Ranked 171th in University Entrance Exam (KONKOOR-E-SARASARI)

Among about 300,000 participants in Iran, 2010.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

Student Research Assistant, in Sharif Institute of Transportation Studies & Research (ITSR) As a research student for more than a year, under supervision of Prof. H. Nassiri.

Working in laboratory, I have contributed in several research works on Tehran Transportation System and

Planning, Traffic Operations and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) under the supervision of Prof.

Habibollah Nassiri and his PhD students, since 2013.

B.Sc Project about "Disaster Management" and "Resilient Cities" "Technical-Economic Evaluation of Reversible Town's Criteria from the perspective of Urban

Transportation. casestudy region 22 of Tehran". (Summer 2014)

240 hours of Internship at "RahPooyan Programming Company" copartner with "Tehran

Traffic Control Company" Becoming familiar with several projects such as "Intelligent Traffic Control and Mechanized Violation

Recording System", "Electronic Ticket Supply and Wireless " and "Variable Message Signs".

My responsibilities included helping some of the most professional staff in doing significant task,

cooperation in calculations for data analyzing, involving in process of producing periodic reports, updating

message signs and etc. (Spring 2014)

Field research project on Tehran Transportation:

"Effect of Pavement Rehabilitation process and bridge's width on Traffic Flow" As final projects of the Traffic and Highway Engineering Course.

Tehran is plagued with so-called phenomenon of poor pavement rehabilitation and maintenance

management. This factor in combination of inappropriate bridge's width will resulted in oversaturated flow

on bridges. Pavement rehabilitation process, in non-peak time by considering other traffic flow information

and also bridge's width, among the various variables, has extraordinary effects on smoothing the traffic flow

which also can diminish the effects of bridge's width. In two course projects, separately, we worked on roots

of this problems and suggest optimal time for maintenance of the most important bridge of Tehran.

Student Research Assistant, in Materials and Concrete Technology Laboratory (MCT LAB) Under supervision of Prof. A.R. Khalo and M.M. Alizadeh Kharazi (Lecturer), since summer 2012. In MCT

LAB, we work on Concrete project for producing laboratory made “High Strength Concrete (HSC)” under

controlled conditions plus examining strength gain. Evaluation and estimation of several mixtures treatment.

Promotion durability of “Self-consolidating Concrete (SCC)” by using different ashlars powders as filler

and pozzolan and varied additives.

Designer, developer, managing executor and supervisor In educational organization of Iran

Kanoon Farhangi Amoozesh The first and only open-form based test for school students with smart evaluation system that was able to

support approximately 50,000 students with smart feedback system within less than 20 hours in Iran’s

biggest and most successful educational organization Kanoon Farhangi Amoozesh.

PUBLICATIONS

P. Hosseini, A. Afshar, Bijan Vafaei, A. Booshehrian, A. Pajum, A. Esrafili "Effects of nano-clay

particles on the short-term properties of self-compacting concrete" Submitted to the Construction & Building Materials Elsevier 2014, CONBUILDMAT-D-14-01816

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

[Fall 2014] Laboratory Assistant for Pavement Design and Lab Course

Sharif University of Technology, Instructor: Prof. A. Motamed Responsible for grading problem sets, weekly experiments deal with

bituminous material characteristics related to Super-pave laboratory and

Marshall Test and supervising the final course about “Asphalt binders”.

[2012-2014] (2 years) Teaching Assistant for Numerical Computation Course

Sharif University of Technology, Instructor: Prof. N. Bagherpour

Responsible for holding weekly problem solving sessions, preparing

Assignment and homework for 100 Electrical and Civil eng. Students

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Familiar with Microsoft SQL server management studio

Programming and Simulation (Expert) MATLAB, Python, C++, Visual Basic , Java

Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop

Structural, and Statistical Modeling Software SAP, ETABS,

AutoCAD, MathCAD

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Persian (Native), English (Fluent), French (Familiar)

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Analysis and Design of an 8-Story Concrete Building as the "Concrete Project" course, under

supervision of Professor A.R Khalo.

Designing the piling of a warehouse structure for storage of equipment and materials plus the piling

of a water tank as a project for the “Foundation Analysis and Design” course, under supervision of

Professor Ahmadi.

Designing a basic wastewater treatment plant for both physical and biological treatment of

wastewater as a project for the “Environmental Engineering” course, under supervision of Professor

Arhami.

Complete architectural design of a five-storey building.

Surveying a part of the university campus and mapping the data by AutoCAD.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Snowboarding (Winter 2010- Present)

Member of Tehran Ski Team and Ski Instructor

Head of Section in Civil Engineering Student Association (October 2011 – July 2012) School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sharif University of Technology,

Under supervision of Vice Chancellor for Research and Technology Professor M.Tajrishi.

Coordination of scientific academic activities for students, i.e. conducting seminars and

conferences, weekly workshop on OPENSEES and ETABS & SAFE Structural software programs.

Editor-in-Chief Sharif Civil Magazine (October 2010 – July 2012)

Volunteer worker on a nonprofit charity organization MAHAK Charity (Occasionally) Society to support children suffering from cancer