Sara Behdad
· Associate ProfessorUniversity of Florida · Environmental Engineering Sciences
Active 2009–2026
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About
Sara Behdad is an associate professor at the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure & Environment. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013. Her research focuses on sustainable design, e-waste management, process modeling, decision analysis, and product lifecycle engineering. Her work emphasizes sustainable materials management and product lifecycle engineering, aiming to develop environmentally friendly solutions for waste management and sustainable product development.
Research topics
- Computer Science
- Computer Security
- Business
- Artificial Intelligence
- Process management
- Engineering
- Marketing
- Environmental economics
- Risk analysis (engineering)
- Systems engineering
Selected publications
Blockchain for the future of sustainable supply chain management in Industry 4.0
Resources Conservation and Recycling · 2020 · 830 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingTask allocation and planning for product disassembly with human–robot collaboration
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2022 · 160 citations
Cost analysis and optimization of Blockchain-based solid waste management traceability system
Waste Management · 2020 · 139 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingA Review of Prospects and Opportunities in Disassembly With Human–Robot Collaboration
Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering · 2023 · 46 citations
Abstract Product disassembly plays a crucial role in the recycling, remanufacturing, and reuse of end-of-use (EoU) products. However, the current manual disassembly process is inefficient due to the complexity and variation of EoU products. While fully automating disassembly is not economically viable given the intricate nature of the task, there is potential in using human–robot collaboration (HRC) to enhance disassembly operations. HRC combines the flexibility and problem-solving abilities of…
From present to future: A review of e-waste recycling processes
Waste Management · 2025-05-30 · 17 citations
reviewSenior authorCorresponding
Recent grants
NSF · $292k · 2017–2020
NSF · $148k · 2020–2021
NSF · $151k · 2020–2021
Frequent coauthors
- 25 shared
Ardeshir Raihanian Mashhadi
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- 24 shared
Behzad Esmaeilian
Tuskegee University
- 19 shared
Deborah Thurston
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 19 shared
Mostafa Sabbaghi
- 16 shared
Xiao Liang
Texas A&M University
- 16 shared
Willie Cade
- 15 shared
Minghui Zheng
Texas A&M University
- 14 shared
Hao‐Yu Liao
National Taiwan University
Education
Ph.D.
Industrial and Systems Engineering
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