Mojgan Jadidi
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, PEng
Biography
Dr. Mojgan Jadidi is an inspired faculty member at Lassonde school of Engineering, Geomatics engineering program who embraces the power of location turn it to knowledge discovery for better and informed decision making in the context of smart buildings, infrastructures and cities. She received her PhD in Geomatics from Université Laval in 2014 working on development of Fuzzy Spatial Datacube for Risk Assessment. She has MSc in Earthquake and Seismology Engineering from Rose School, Italy and Université Joseph Fourier, France and BSc in Civil-Survey Engineering from Iranian University of Science and Technology. Her research has been funded by multiple grants from NSERC, Mitacs, COMREN and internal York University funds. She is currently associate Director of ESRI Center of Excellence at York University. Before joining Lassonde School of Engineering, she was a postdoctoral researcher at GeoICT Lab working on BIM-GIS data integration and dynamic visualization of urban data using recent 3D web services from September 2014 to June 2016 (a project funded by CIVDDD and BRAIN Alliance). Dr. Jadidi won a number of international awards and scholarships for post doctorate, graduate studies, such as the NSERC in 2016, ESRI Students Award in 2011 and Erasmus Mundus Master Scholarship from the European Commission in 2006. She is active member of ISPRS Commission IV/W7 GeoData Management since 2016.
Research Interests
- Geospatial Big Data Modelling
- Building Information Model (BIM) and 3D GIS Integration
- Spatial Graph and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
- Dynamic Visualisation
- Geospatial Knowledge discovery and Data Mining
- 3D Web Mapping
- Applications: Smart Environmental/Building/Cities and Intelligent Transportation
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Recent Stories
Dr Sarah Kaykhosravi successfully defended her Doctor Dissertation!
June 11, 2021
Please join me to congrats Dr Sarah Kaykhosravi for her excellent work and accomplishment successfully defending her PhD dissertation on GIS based LID framework for sustainable urban runoff management.
Dr Sarah Kaykhosravi became officially my (co-supervise with Prof Usman Khan) first PhD graduate thanks to great and insightful examination committee! Good luck with your new adventure Sarah!
Dr. Mojgan Jadidi on Unusually Well Informed Podcast
May 20, 2021
Unusually Well Informed is a podcast that examines trends in technology, innovation and business and how we can all contribute to an abundant and just future.
Dr. Mojgan Jadidi and the host, Tim Hampton, talked about geomatics and its impact on our lives, her work as an engineering professor, and the importance of ethics in engineering. They explored her research interests including predicting and mitigating the impact of earthquakes and coastal erosion, automated marine vehicles and route planning, low impact development and storm water management.
Xuyang Han Received 2021 BeSpatial Student Bursary and 2021 Esri Canada GIS Scholarship
May 14, 2021
We are every pleased to announce that Xuyang, our MSc. grad student, is the winner of this year’s BeSpatial Student Bursary and 2021 Esri Canada GIS Scholarship for his paper and poster entitled “Modeling Vessel Behaviours by Clustering AIS Data Using Optimized DBSCAN”.
Mr Aman U. Usmani successfully defended his master thesis!
April 21, 2021
Our lab had another good news! Mr Aman U. Usmani defended his master thesis successfully working hard to contribute towards BIM and GIS data interoperability using semantic web technology. Aman implemented an automatics ontology generation tool for BIM and GIS data from their xsd schema.
Congratulation Aman. Special thanks to the examination committee Magdalena Krol, Ph.D., P.Eng. Gunho Sohn Manos Papagelis for their dedication and constructive feedback.
Engineering team addresses flood management, urban planning and sustainable development
Climate change and urbanization are increasing the frequency and intensity of floods in cities. Three researchers at the Lassonde School of Engineering sought to address this, perfectly illustrating just how York University brings expertise to the table to build new tools and strategies to tackle the historic crises we are currently facing.
With funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Professor Usman Khan led this new research in collaboration with Professor Mojgan Jadidi and grad student Sarah Kaykhosravi.
Urban flooding can have catastrophic effects on the environment, urban planning, development and the economy
Xuyang Han successfully defended his master thesis!
February 23, 2021
Today is a great day for our lab, Xuyang Han successfully defended his master thesis and showcase his great contribution on marine trajectory clustering application using enhanced DBSCAN using AIS data, a new direction to auto vessels development.
Thank Prof. Jadidi and Prof. Armenakis to be excellent mentors in this journey! Xuyang Han is officially the first graduated grad student at the GeoVA Team in York University – Lassonde School of Engineering! More exciting news will come from our lab in the coming month!
Interdisciplinary Lassonde research team publishes in special edition of journal ‘Water’
With the constant migration of people to urban centres, the growing density of cities like Toronto have increased the risk of urban flooding while climate change and decaying infrastructures intensify the situation.
An interdisciplinary research team at the Lassonde School of Engineering comprised of Engineering Professor Usman Khan, Geomatics Professor Mojgan Jadidi, Civil Engineering PhD student Sarah Kaykhosravi and undergraduate student Karen Abogadil set out to investigate solutions to increased flooding in urban centres.
Professor draws on expertise of the Lassonde Education & Innovation Studio
When remote course delivery became a reality for the 2020 fall semester, Mojgan Jadidi knew she would need some support in turning her third-year course, ESSE3600 – GIS and Spatial Analysis, into a successful online experience, so the Lassonde assistant professor of geomatics engineering turned to the most likely source of assistance: the Lassonde Education and Innovation Studio (LEIS).
LEIS was established in the spring of 2020 as a way of assisting faculty at the Lassonde School of Engineering in bringing innovation into their classrooms. When the pandemic hit and instruction moved online, their work became highly valued. Jadidi is a member of LEIS, as well as a client.
Lassonde hosts 16 students for 2020 Helen Carswell STEAM Program for Women
The Lassonde School of Engineering welcomed 16 female high school students to participate in the Helen Carswell STEAM Program for Women. This year the program ran over a two-week period in a completely virtual format. The program offered participants a paid research opportunity as lab assistants doing meaningful work in science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM).
Research projects included:
- Geospatial Crowdsourcing: Revitalizing Global Partnerships, Mojgan Jadidi
- Geospatial Crowdsourcing: Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies, Melanie Baljko
- Electronic Music For Social Impact, Franz Newland
- Green Energy in Ontario, Peter Taylor
Lassonde team reinvents Renaissance engineering course
Don’t expect traditional subject matter or standard delivery from the team now teaching Renaissance Engineer 1: Communications, Ethics & Problem Solving at York University’s Lassonde School of Engineering.
“We always had a vision of the Lassonde School of Engineering as a different type of engineering school that embraces diversity, social science, the United Nations Sustainability Goals and experiential learning,” says Professor Andrew Maxwell, Bergeron Chair in Technology Entrepreneurship and one of the course’s instructors. “To do that, we needed to transform the way we teach.”
Luckily for first-year engineering students, the four faculty members involved with this mandatory course are among those at Lassonde most comfortable with online technology: Maxwell; Jeffrey Harris, an assistant professor in the teaching stream; Mojgan Jadidi, an assistant professor in the teaching stream; and Kai Zhuang, a sessional instructor and educational developer.
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