University Scholarship
Publications and Grants

Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani

sghanipoor@sdsu.eduorcid.org/0000-0002-7314-2689

Appointments

  • Associate Professor, 2020-Present
    Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, US
  • Assistant Professor, 2015-2020
    Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, US
  • Research Associate, 2014-2015
    Center for Infrastructure-Based Safety Systems, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Blacksburg, VA, US
  • Graduate Research Assistant, 2013-2014
    Center for Infrastructure-Based Safety Systems, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Blacksburg, VA, US
  • Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant, 2010-2014
    Civil Eng, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, US

  • PhD, 2010-2014
    Civil Eng., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, US

Profile updated October 8, 2026.

Scholarship

Academic Publications

Assessing Driver Distraction From Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Under‐Bridge Inspection Trucks: A Driving Simulator Study Using Eye Tracker and EEG
Zainab Afzali Kusha; Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani; Reza Akhavian
Iet Intelligent Transport Systems, 2026, journal article
Automobile driving simulators Electroencephalography Traffic safety Transportation engineering
Detecting synthetic population bias using a spatially-oriented framework and independent validation data
Jessica Embury; Atsushi Nara; Sergio Rey; Ming-Hsiang Tsou; Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani
International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2024, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 3
Geographic information systems Software frameworks Spatial analysis (Statistics)
Identifying and Labeling Potentially Risky Driving: A Multistage Process Using Real-World Driving Data
Charles Marks; Arash Jahangiri; Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani; Ladislav Routil
Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2021, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 5
Automobile driving Machine learning Traffic safety Transportation engineering
Implications of a Narrow Automated Vehicle-Exclusive Lane on Interstate 15 Express Lanes
Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani; et al.
Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2021, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 17
Automated vehicles Express highways Intelligent transportation systems Transportation engineering
Application of Real Field Connected Vehicle Data for Aggressive Driving Identification on Horizontal Curves
Arash Jahangiri; Vincent J. Berardi; Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018, journal article, Cited by: OpenAlex: 39
Roads Traffic safety Transportation engineering Vehicles

Dissemination

A Holistic Inquiry of Intelligent Speed-Assist Technology: Safety Impacts, Technology Implementation, and Challenges
Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani; Nusheen Baradaran; Arash Jahangiri
2025, report

Data and Process

Big Data Visualization and Spatiotemporal Modeling of Aggressive Driving (03-087)
Charles Markes; Arash Jahangiri; Ming-Hsiang Tsou; Atsushi Nara; Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani
Vtti, 2019, data set