S. (Saman) Behrouzi
Profile
Saman is a Ph.D. researcher in the department of Transport & Planning. His main focus is on multiscale visualization of different types of transportation networks. Saman acquired his M.Sc. in Information Technology - Computer Networks from Sharif University of Technology - Iran, and prior to joining TU Delft, he was a research assistant at University of Tehran - Iran. His main contributions as a research assistant was designing machine learning models and data analysis in different fields of research like bioinformatics, complex network analysis, and bibliometrics.
Research
In his Ph.D. research, Saman will be developing methodologies for a seamless yet consistent transition of data visualization between different transportation network scales with minimum loss of information. There are various open challenges within the field of visualization and transportation for building such multiscale visualization. One challenge is to formulate hypergraphs that encompass the relationship between the infrastructure of different modes and the relationship between the different transportation scales - network-level, corridor-level, and street-level. Another challenge is to create a consistent aggregation of data that corresponds to the different transport scales. This requires an intersection of network science, dimensionality reduction techniques, and interactive visualization technologies. Moreover, the project involves collecting requirements from stakeholders such as traffic operators, city planners, and citizens for developing the visualizations and evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of the visualizations on the stakeholders.
