Summary
Meead Saberi is a transportation professor and entrepreneur based at UNSW Sydney, combining deep academic expertise in traffic flow, large-scale network modeling, active transportation and urban data analytics with hands-on startup leadership as co-founder and CEO of footpath.ai. He holds a PhD from Northwestern and has led multiple ARC-funded projects focused on walking, cycling and car-reduced street design, translating research into tools for micro-mapping sidewalks using AI and computer vision. Meead’s work spans theory to practice—developing city-scale mesoscopic traffic models, national cycling data platforms and pedestrian network models—while engaging industry and policy partners. With a blend of rigorous modeling skills and product-minded innovation, he seeks to make streets more walkable for people and navigable for robots, an uncommon intersection of civil engineering, data science and robotics.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc Civil & Environmental Engineering (Transportation Engineering), M.Sc Civil & Environmental Engineering (Transportation Engineering) at Portland State University
PhD Civil & Environmental Engineering (Transportation Systems Analysis and Planning), PhD Civil & Environmental Engineering (Transportation Systems Analysis and Planning) at Northwestern University
Bachelor's degree Civil Engineering, Bachelor's degree Civil Engineering at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad