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Baher Abdulhai

Professor

Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, Department of Civil and Mineral Engineering
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BIO

Professor Baher Abdulhai has 33 years of experience in transportation systems engineering and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He is the founder and Director of the Toronto ITS Centre and the founder and co-Director of the Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems (CATTS). Abdulhai received several awards including IEEE Outstanding Service Award, Teaching Excellence award, and research awards from Canada Foundation for Innovation, Ontario Research Fund, and Ontario Innovation Trust. He served on the Board of Directors of the Government of Ontario (GO) Transit Authority from 2004 to 2006. He served as a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in ITS from 2005 to 2010. The ITS Centre won the Ontario Showcase Merit Award of Excellence and the National GTEC Bronze Medal Award in 2005. His research team won international awards including the International Transportation Forum innovation award in 2010 (Hossam Abdelgawad), IEEE ITS 2013 (Samah El-Tantawy) and INFORMS 2013 (Samah El-Tantawy). In 2014, he won the University of Toronto Inventor of the Year Award. In 2015 he has been inducted as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC). In 2018, he won the prestigious CSCE Sandford Fleming (Career Achievement) Award for his contribution to transportation in Canada. He has been elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2020. In 2021, he won the Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering Medal for career Engineering Excellence.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director at The Toronto Intelligent Transportation Systems Centre
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1998 - present
  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada1998 - present

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Member
    the Board of Directors of the Government of Ontario (GO) Transit Authority2004 - 2006

DEGREES

  • PhD in Transportation Engineering
    University of California, Irvine, Irvine, United States
  • MASc in Civil Engineering
    Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
  • BASc in Civil Engineering
    Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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