Behnam Sherafat on Clubhouse

Bio

📍Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 🇺🇸
✅PhD Candidate 📚🖋📈📑💻
Construction Engineering👷🏻
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah 🏛
✅M.Sc: University of Tehran
Construction Engineering and Management
✅B.Sc: Sharif University of Technology
Civil Engineering

https://www.linkedin.com/in/behnam-sherafat-105b4478
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Research Interests:
1️⃣IoT and Information & Sensing Technologies
1️⃣Construction Automation
3️⃣Automated Construction Monitoring
4️⃣Sound Data Analyst (Sound Signal Processing, Sound Source Separation, Time- and Frequency- Domain Analysis, Beam-forming Techniques, Sound Source Localization)
5️⃣Building Information Modeling (BIM)
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Professional Appointments:
1️⃣Graduate Research Assistant
University of Utah

Duties:
1. Collecting sound data from construction job sites using single-channel off-the-shelf microphones and microphone arrays
2. Developing a hybrid method for automatically monitoring construction equipment and its activities
3. Developing methods for separating sound sources from multiple construction machines
4. Estimating equipment productivity rates and quantity of completed work
5. Developing a hybrid IoT-based system for recognizing, tracking, and recording construction equipment activities and then processing and integrating at the project (company) levels.

2️⃣NSF-Intern: Data Scientist📊📈
Technology and Research Innovation division of the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT)
Supervisor: Adam Radel (Data And Analytics Manager)
Colleagues:
- Stanley Chiang (Business Intelligence Administrator)
- Leonel Nieto (Business Intelligence Administrator)
- Paige Sidwell (GIS Analyst))

Duties:
1. Analysing traffic and accident data
2. Predicting accidents using machine learning techniques
3. Identifying the hidden relations between the accident variables using Association Rule Mining (ARM)

3️⃣BIM Specialist
Tecnosa R&D Center, University of Tehran
www.tecnosa.ir