Dr. Saiedeh Razavi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at McMaster University. She is also the Chair in Heavy Construction. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo and joined McMaster from Concordia University where she was working as a postdoctoral fellow on automation in construction. Through her academic and industry involvement, Dr. Razavi has gained fourteen years of experience in collaborating and leading multi-disciplinary team-based projects in sensing, automation, information technology, intelligent systems, and their applications in transportation, infrastructure management, and logistics. Dr. Razavi holds academic appointments in the Department of Civil Engineering and at the McMaster-Mohawk Bachelor of Technology-Civil Engineering Technology Program. She is also an associate member of the McMaster’s School of Geography and Earth Sciences and an associate editor of the ASCE Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. She teaches courses in project management, engineering economics, construction management, and optimization for engineering systems.