Dr. Saberi is an Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Prior to joining UNSW, he was an academic at Monash University, Melbourne from 2014 to 2018. He holds a PhD degree in Transportation Systems Analysis and Planning from Northwestern University, USA. He also has a Master's degree in Transportation Engineering from Portland State University, USA and a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, IRAN. He is leading the CityX research lab as part of the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) which focuses on scientific understanding of cities through modelling, simulation, data analytics, and visualisation. His research interests and experience cover a range of transportation engineering areas including traffic flow theory & characteristics, large-scale transportation network modelling, complex networks, pedestrian crowd dynamics and simulation, and urban data analytics & visualisation.

Dr Saberi is also a co-founder of footpath.ai, a UNSW spinout, that scales and automates mapping of the walking infrastructure with GeoAI and computer vision.

Marie is a Senior Consultant at Veitch Lister Consulting, with transport advisory experience across Australia and New Zealand. She has worked on major multimodal infrastructure, business cases, disaster response projects, and public transport planning, such as for Southeast Queensland’s 10-year Bus Network Plan and Canberra Light Rail. Marie brings a transdisciplinary lens, exploring how transport intersects with culture, climate, and equity. With former leadership roles in New Zealand's Planning Institute and Women’s Infrastructure Network, she is passionate about improving our collective capability to navigate complexity and change.