BOSTON, MA, November 17, 2025 – McClure is excited to welcome Mahsa Jafari to the Transportation team as a Traffic Safety Engineer.
Masha earned her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Toronto Metropolitan University, specializing in Transportation Engineering, with research focused on developing data-driven frameworks to analyze traffic crashes using machine learning and statistical modeling. She also holds a Master of Science. in Transportation Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology and a Bachelor of Science. in Civil Engineering from the University of Tabriz.
Masha brings strong experience in transportation engineering and safety analytics across research and consulting. As a Research Assistant at Toronto Metropolitan University, she led a project for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation using a systemic safety approach with advanced machine-learning techniques. Her work has been published in academic journals, presented at conferences such as TRB and RSS, and she is active in TRB’s professional community. She previously worked as a Transportation Engineer, contributing to public transportation network design, intersection analysis, microsimulation modeling in Vissim, and roadway assessments. She has also served as a Teaching Assistant at Toronto Metropolitan University and Northeastern University.
At McClure, Masha will support transportation engineering initiatives involving traffic safety analysis, modeling, microsimulation, crash analytics, and data-driven decision-making. She is eager to apply advanced analytical and machine-learning techniques to real-world challenges and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver community-focused infrastructure solutions.
When asked what drew her to McClure, Masha said “I chose McClure for several reasons. First, the company’s commitment to innovation strongly aligns with my own interests in advancing analytical methods in transportation safety. Second, throughout the hiring process, everyone I met was genuine, collaborative, and clearly invested in both team success and individual professional growth. That culture made McClure feel like the right environment for the next stage of my career. Finally, I saw a clear opportunity to contribute meaningfully while continuing to learn and develop within a supportive and forward-thinking team.”
About McClure
Founded in 1956, McClure has grown to a firm of over 280 professionals in fifteen offices. With a vision of making lives better, McClure brings engineering and development expertise with a collaborative approach to identify the best strategies and solutions to bring our client’s vision to life. We look at every project through the lens of economics by thinking, designing, and building for the future. McClure’s expertise is in guiding clients on making long-term capital investments in the areas of aviation, bridge, community development, construction observation, development, landscape architecture, structural, survey, traffic and safety, transportation, wastewater, and water.