Arash Tavakoli

Arash Tavakoli, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Villanova University and the director of the Human-Centered Cities Lab. His research focuses on the intersection of transportation engineering, human behavior and urban design—using technologies such as virtual reality, physiological sensing and artificial intelligence to reimagine how people interact with infrastructure. Through his work, he aims to build safer, human-focused transportation systems for the cities of tomorrow.