Fereshteh Sattari
Fereshteh Sattari, PhD, MEd, BSc
Research Associate & Lecturer
David and Joan Lynch School of Engineering Safety and Risk Management
University of Alberta
Fereshteh Sattari obtained her PhD in Chemical & Materials Engineering-Process Control from the University of Alberta, Canada. Her area of research was optimizing and simulating the biomass conversion process by applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
As a Research Director and Instructor at the Lynch School of Engineering Safety and Risk Management, Chemical & Materials Engineering Department at the University of Alberta, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses such as Quantitative Risk Analysis(CME 694) and supervises various research projects. In one of these research projects, her responsibility is to apply AI and ML to analyze incident reports and reduce incident rates in oil & gas companies. She also works in the Canadian Rail Research Laboratory (CarRRL). In her role, she leads a project whose main objective is to enhance Canada’s strategy for safely transporting dangerous goods by rail. Her research also includes enhancing safety management systems practices on construction projects: a proactive data-driven approach for project safety planning and control, and knowledge transfer in the oil & gas industry: a case study in the corrosion and integrity management sector. She is also a co-principal investigator in some pipeline and oil & Gas projects. In addition, she works with Alberta Innovates, researching codes, standards, and regulatory and insurance gap analysis for hydrogen value chain development. She also helps develop graduate course material and is in charge of developing new research and engagement proposals.