Principal Investigator
Dr. Shabnam Jabari, Associate Professor, P.Eng
Principal Investigator and Lab Director
University of New Brunswick
Associate Professor at UNB working on geospatial AI, remote sensing, and urban digital twins for climate resilience and disaster management.
Senior Collaborators
Derek Lichti
Professor, Department of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary
University of Calgary
Professor in the Department of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Calgary and long-standing collaborator with ASIL on terrestrial LiDAR, 3D metrology, and digital twinning research.
Heather McGrath
Research Scientist, Natural Resources Canada
Natural Resources Canada
Research Scientist at Natural Resources Canada and long-standing ASIL collaborator on flood detection, disaster management, and urban climate resilience research.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Faezeh Soleimani Vostikolaei
Postdoctoral Fellow • Project Technical Leader
University of New Brunswick
Postdoctoral researcher leading ASIL's LoD2 building modeling pipeline, with focus on bimodal segmentation and graph neural networks for roof component extraction.
PhD Students
Abbas Salehi
PhD Candidate
University of New Brunswick
PhD Candidate researching detailed LoD3 city modeling, with focus on facade element reconstruction and occlusion-aware segmentation from multi-view imagery.
Andrea Reid
PhD Student
University of New Brunswick
Investigating accessible geospatial tools and workflows for accurate flood mapping in urban areas.
Master’s Students
Colin Richardson
Master's Student
University of New Brunswick
Investigating Digital Twinning for Energy modeling applications.
James Durant
Master's Student
University of New Brunswick
Master's student developing methods for automated LoD2 building model generation from aerial and street-level data sources.
Samuel McNally
Master's Student
University of New Brunswick
A second year MScE student analyzing the spatial accuracy of building Gaussian splatting, and improving it through segmentation and spatial constraints.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Darian Crouse
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of New Brunswick
Undergraduate research assistant analyzing calibration target room networks for geomatics instrument testing and accuracy assessment.
Dweep Ghosh Saha
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of New Brunswick
Undergraduate research assistant working on LiDAR-based calibration target geometry, thermal 3D modeling, and administrative contributions to the ASIL website.
Liam Delong
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of New Brunswick
Undergraduate research assistant working on thermal building digital twin development with applications in energy efficiency modeling.