Associate ProfessorNader Naderpajouh

Project Opportunities

Title: AI Techniques for Emergency Management and Critical Infrastructure

Summary of opportunity:

Research Areas:

Climate change

Opportunity synopsis:

The projects will conduct research in AI techniques for emergency management and critical infrastructure. 

Offering:
Two PhD scholarships offered to Australian citizens or permanent residents for 3.5 years which includes:

• Stipend of $41,650 per annum
• $5,000 per annum for training
• $5,000 for travel
• a thesis allowance
• a 6 month internship with an industry partner and undertake training courses from CSIRO on AI and analytics. 

Successful candidates must:

• Have a Bachelor or a Master degree in a relevant discipline, including Engineering, Social Science, Science, Economics etc.
• Be an Australian citizen or permanent resident

How to apply: To apply, please email nader.naderpajouh@sydney.edu.au the following:

• CV
• Transcripts 

----------Current Research Projects----------

• Project governance and governmentality as collaborative challenges (2026-2029) – Co-Investigator
• Bushfire information database - scoping study (2025) - Lead investigator
• Inquiry into measuring vulnerability, costing risk and designing transitions to a climate resilient housing system (2025-2026) - Co-investigator
• Use of AI/ML for extracting hazard data from satellite imagery and oblique photography (2024-2025) - Lead investigator
• Social asset mapping: Guidance for local social preparedness (2024-2025) - Co-investigator
• Mapping the more-than-human justice network (2024-2025)-Co-investigator
• AI techniques for emergency management and critical infrastructure (2022-2027) - Co-investigator
• Community risk assessment (2023-2024) - Lead investigator
• Self-organising systems to minimise future disaster risk (2022-2024) - Co-investigator
• Risk governance for procurement in future fuels (2021-2022) - Co-investigator
• Community driven approach to As Low As Reasonably Practicable (ALARP) risk governance (2021) - Co-investigator
• Understanding drivers for public damage of distribution assets (2020-2021) - Co-investigator
• SAFETY4RAILS: Data-based analysis of safety and security protection for detection, prevention, mitigation and response in trans-modal metro and railway networks (2020-2022) - Co-investigator
• Risks in the regulatory framework of the building industry (2020) - Co-investigator
• Participatory governance of integrated and resilient mixed-use developments (2019-2020) - Lead investigator
• Development of the construction capacity index (2019-2020) - Lead investigator
• Towards evaluating the employment impacts of the building maintenance programs (2019-2020) - Co-investigator
• Assessing the feasibility and effectiveness of pipeline intrusion avoidance solutions and decision support for selection of the technology (2019-2021) - Co-investigator
• Regulatory dynamics of infrastructure resilience (2018-2019) - Lead investigator
• Developing industry primers for resilience (2018-2019) - Co-investigator
• Dynamic modelling of budget allocation at educational organisations to enhance resilience (2018) - Co-investigator
• Operational paradigm for engineering resilience of interdependent infrastructure systems (2017) - Lead investigator