Dr Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan BSc, PGCert, MSc PhD, FHEA, MCIHT

Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan

Department of Civil Engineering
Lecturer in Infrastructure Asset Management

Contact details

Telephone
0121 414 2933
Email
m.eskandaritorbaghan@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
Department of Civil Engineering
The University 麻豆精选
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Dr Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan is a lecturer in Infrastructure Asset Management at the Department of Civil Engineering with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in risk management and linear infrastructure systems from University 麻豆精选.

Mehran spent five years in the civil engineering industry, as a geotechnical engineer, before returning to academia to study a Master in Construction Management and then the PhD both at the University 麻豆精选.

He then worked as a research fellow at the University 麻豆精选 for around five years, before becoming a lecturer. He was also a visiting research fellow at the University of Nottingham.

Mehran has been engaged in supervising a number of PhD students. His research portfolio and interest lie in the field of smart management of infrastructure systems, investigating the application of robotics and autonomous systems for condition monitoring and repair of urban infrastructure.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Risk Based Approach for Importing Renewable Electricity, University 麻豆精选, 2016
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE), University 麻豆精选, Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • MSc (Distinction) in Construction Management, University 麻豆精选, 2011
  • BSc in Civil Engineering, Uromieh University, Iran, 2005

Biography

Dr Mehran Eskandari Torbaghan qualified with a BSc in Civil Engineering, from Uromieh University in Iran. He then joined construction industry and worked as a geotechnical engineer for nearly five years. Mehran studied a master's in Construction Management, at the University 麻豆精选, graduated with a Distinction. He went on to study for a PhD in Risk Management and Renewable Energy, at the University 麻豆精选.

Since his PhD graduation, he was engaged in numbers of research projects on road managing and railway engineering. He was also involved in different teaching activities, including MSc Road Management Programme. His role as a research fellow was started with Project looking into interaction of buried utilities and roads, before moving to project where he investigated the applications of robots and drones in monitoring and repairing city infrastructure. The last research project that Mehran was involved in as a research fellow was the (CRISPS) project. As part of the CRISPS project, he was demonstrating the technical and economic suitability of three global best-practice road-surfacing technologies for the range of traffic and environmental conditions of high volume roads.

Teaching

Dr Eskandari Torbaghan primary teaching interests are in the infrastructure asset management (MSc and MEng), along with rural roads and road design and planning (MSc), and Geotechnical Engineering principles (BEng and MEng).

Postgraduate supervision

Digital twins for Roads
Automated condition assessment of infrastructure systems, e.g. pavement
Risk Assessment and Drainage Systems
Risk Assessment and Railway Engineering, Fault-Tree Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation
Risk Assessment and Urban Transport

Research

Mehran principal research interest lies in the field of smart management of infrastructure systems, investigating the application of robotics and autonomous systems for condition monitoring and repair of urban infrastructure.

His vision is to explore the application of automation techniques including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning approaches to inform decision-making in infrastructure asset management, including those related to roads, maintenance type and timing as part of achieving a proactive asset management approach.

Other activities

  • Member of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT)
  • Fellow in Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Special Issue Editor of MDPI Sustainability Journal

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Liu, Y, Junwu, W & Eskandari Torbaghan, M 2025, '', Automation in Construction, vol. 175, 106181.

Chen, K, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, Thom, N & Faramarzi, A 2025, '', Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 142, 109922.

Chen, K, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, Thom, N, Garcia-Hern谩ndez, A, Faramarzi, A & Chapman, D 2024, '', Case Studies in Construction Materials, vol. 20, e03186.

Li, Z, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, Zhang, T, Qin, X, Li, W, Li, Y & Zhang, J 2024, '', IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems , vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 12490-12503.

Li, Z, Zhang, T, Miao, Y, Zhang, J, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, He, Y & Dai, J 2024, '', Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering.

Movahedifar, R, Royal, A, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, Metje, N & Chapman, D 2024, '', Results in Engineering, vol. 23, 102537.

Li, Z, Miao, Y, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, Zhang, H & Zhang, J 2024, '', Automation in Construction, vol. 158, 105251.

Du, H, Wei, L, Dimitrova, V, Magee, D, Clarke, B, Collins, R, Entwisle, D, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, Curioni, G, Stirling, R, Reeves, HJ & Cohn, AG 2023, '', Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, vol. 104, 101991.

Sasidharan, M, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, Fathy, Y, Rogers, C, Metje, N & Schooling, J 2023, '', Communications in Transportation Research, vol. 3, 100109.

Ngezahayo, E, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, Metje, N, Burrow, M, Ghataora, G & Desalegn, Y 2023, '', Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 15, no. 23, 16332.

Torbaghan, ME, Sasidharan, M, Jefferson, I & Watkins, J 2023, '', IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 20-29.

Conference contribution

Hojjati, A, Movahedifar, R & Eskandari Torbaghan, M 2024, . in TM Evans, N Stark & S Chang (eds), Geo Congress 2024: Geotechnical Data Analysis and Computation. Geo-Congress 2024, no. 352, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), pp. 464-474, Proceedings of Geo-Congress 2024: Geotechnical Data Analysis and Computation, Vancouver, Canada, 25/02/24. <>

Corker, J, Remenyte-Prescott, R, Torbaghan, ME & Ninic, J 2023, . in Proceedings of the 12th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability., 5, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, 12th IMA International Conference on Modelling in Industrial Maintenance and Reliability (MIMAR), Nottingham, United Kingdom, 4/07/23.

Literature review

Tanzadeh, R, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, Venetsaneas, N & Moghadas Nejad, F 2025, '', Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Transport, vol. 178, no. 2, pp. 141鈥�150.

Paper

Ngezahayo, E, Eskandari Torbaghan, M, Luiu, C, Avis, W & Obuolloh, OE 2023, '', Paper presented at XXVII World Road Congress - PIARC, Prague, Czech Republic, 2/10/23 - 6/10/23.