Prof. Mahmoud Reza Delavar

University of Tehran, Iran

Prof. Mahmoud Reza Delavar is Director, Center of Excellence in Geomatic Eng. in Disaster Management and Director, Land Administration in Smart City Lab., School of Surveying and Geospatial Eng., College of Engineering, University of Tehran. Dr. Delavar has received his BSc. in Civil Eng.-Surveying from Technical University of KNT, Tehran, Iran in 1989, MSc in Civil Eng. - Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing from University of Roorkee (Currently IIT Roorkee), Roorkee, India in 1992 and a PhD in Geomatic Eng.-GIS from University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia in 1997. He is chairing WG IV/2 (Artificial Intelligence and Uncertainty Modeling in Spatial Analysis) in International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) during 2022-2026. He is Iran national representative to International Society of Urban Data Management (UDMS) since 2006. Prof. Delavar is founder of Iranian Society of Surveying and Geomatics Eng. (ISSGE) and is in the editorial board of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) and Geo-spatial Information Science (GSIS). Prof. Delavar is a member of International Society of Urban Informatics. Prof. Delavar has published 400 papers in reputable national and international conferences and Journals. Prof. Delavar has supervised 122 MSc. and PhD theses and Postdoc research so far. His research interests are in spatial data quality and uncertainty modeling, temporal GIS, disaster management, smart cities, cadaster, land administration, spatial data infrastructure (SDI), building information modeling/management, (BIM), multi-dimensional GIS, ubiquitous GIS, spatial interoperability, spatial data fusion, spatial data science, intelligent GIS, urban growth modeling, land use and land cover change modeling, and integration of remote sensing and GIS.