Dr. Soheil Sabri
DirectorDr. Soheil Sabri is an Assistant Professor at the School of Modeling, Simulation and Training, Knights Digital Twin Initiative at the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is an Urban Planning and Geospatial Scientist focused on advancing urban development through research, practical work, and education. His main interests include Urban Digital Twins, Multi-dimensional Planning Support Systems, and analytical tools that provide data-driven insights for urban planning.
Dr. Sabri leads pioneering research and education in Urban Digital Twins, covering areas like Development Envelope Control, Rule-Based Compliance Assessment, and Environmentally Sustainable Design (ESD). He significantly influences digital urban planning through his roles in various scientific and professional organizations, including IEEE Digital Twin and Parallel Intelligence, IEEE Systems, Man, Cybernetics Society, Co-chairing and Ambassadorship of the Academia and Research within the Digital Twin Consortium and contributing to the Metaverse and Urban Digital Twin working groups at Open Geospatial Consortium.
Ph.D. Students
Kwabena Anane-Nsiah
Digital Transformation and Digital Twin
Nasim Yeganeh
Hurricane Damage and Rental Housing Affordability Fluctuation
Nikoo Mirhosseini
Utilization of Building Information Modeling to Streamline the Process of Building Permit Systems
Sherry Dubin
Research Assistant Senior Software Engineering
Amy Kvien
Estimating Life-Cycle of the U.S. Natural Gas Emissions
James Owusu Appiah
A Digital Twin Enabled Multi Agentic Approach to Automated MEP Compliance Check
Ensiyeh Javaherian Pour
Developing 3D Spatial graph database
Phani Raja Bharath Balijepalli
Adaptive Multi-Fidelity Modeling and Continuous State Synchronization for Digital Twins of Physical Systems
Hossein Zamani Saghazadeh
AI-Enabled Digital Twin Framework for Demand-Responsive Urban Air Mobility Network Design and Operations
Current Researchers
Dr. Maxwell Omeje
Post-Doc Scholar
Alex Hynds
Researcher
Jedidah Wong
Researcher
Dr. Mahdi Aghaabbasi
Courtesy Appointment
Past Research Associates
Dr. Amir Mahdiyar
Post-Doc in Decision Support Systems
Dr. Hesam Tahami
Post-Doc in Optimization
Kalp Devangbhai Thakkar
Research Assistant IoT/Software Eng
Janani Nagaraj
Research Assistant Visualization
Benjamin Lee
Research Assistant Geospatial Engineering
Dr. Reza Mortaheb
Researcher in Geospatial Analysis and Urban Planning
Naga Vaishnavi Marupaka
Research Assistant Visualization
Kyle Shervington
Research Assistant AI/Software Eng
Hemant Kanoujia
Researcher