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CURRICULUM VITAE
Young-Ji Byon
Associate Chair and Assistant Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research (KUSTAR)
PO Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Cell: +971 (0)55-297-0854
Citizenship: Canadian
Education
PhD University of Toronto
Department of Civil Engineering,
September 2005 – November 2010 (*Degree conferred in March 2011)
Byon, Young-Ji (2012). GISTMARG: GPS and GIS for Traffic Monitoring
and Route Guidance (Doctoral dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)
Supervisors: Prof. Baher Abdulhai and Prof. Amer Shalaby
MASc University of Toronto
Department of Civil Engineering,
September 2003 – December 2004 (*Degree conferred in March 2005)
Byon, Young-Ji (2005). GISTT: GPS-GIS integrated system for travel time
surveys. (MASc dissertation, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)
Supervisors: Prof. Baher Abdulhai and Prof. Amer Shalaby
BASc University of Toronto
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
September 2000 – June 2003 (*Degree conferred in June 2003)
BASc. Thesis topic: Effect of Supercritical CO2 and N2 on the
Crystallization of Linear and Branched Propylene Resins Filled with
Foaming Additives
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– For my senior years, I specialized in manufacturing option and graduated
as rank #1 student
– Published an Web of Science paper as an undergraduate student: Naguib,
Hani E., S.W. Song, Y.J. Byon, and C.B. Park. Effect of Supercritical CO2
and N2 on the Crystallization of Linear and Branched Propylene Resins
Filled with Foaming Additives. University of Toronto/Nomaco Inc. SPE,
ANTEC Technical Papers, Vol. 46, pp. 1867-1873, 2000.
University of Toronto
Engineering Science
September 1998 – February 2000
– The most elite multidisciplinary engineering program of its kind in
Canada at the University of Toronto
– For the first 2 years of undergraduate program, I learned the fundamental
knowledge at higher levels for all Civil, Materials, Computer, Electrical,
Computer Science, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
– The fundamental courses taken related to the Civil Engineering field
include, Structural Analysis(CIV102 by Prof. Collins), Statics, Dynamics,
Fluid Mechanics and Hydrology, Numerical Analysis (later I became a
Teaching Assistant in the Graduate School), Engineering Materials (later I
became a Teaching Assistant in the Graduate School), Solid Mechanics,
Engineering Design, Engineering Economics and Construction Management,
Probability and Statistics for Civil Engineers (Later I became the sole
lecturer of the course of 150 students for 2 consecutive years myself and the
course evaluation was higher than the average of all professors in the Civil
Engineering department for all years)
– Admission grade from high school was 99% which is equivalent of top
0.5% of Canada
High School Humberside Collegiate Institute
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1995 – 1998
Middle
School
Port Credit Secondary School
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
1994 – 1995
Elementary
School
Shin Dong Elementary School
Seoul, South Korea–1994
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Postdoctoral Works
Postdoctoral
Research
Fellow
University of Calgary
Schulich School of Engineering
GeoSensor Web Laboratory
(Temporal Spatial Sensors including GPS and Smartphones for
TrafficPulse Project)
December 2010 – December 2011
Application of Advanced GIS, GPS, Social Network Services, Smartphones
for Intelligent Transportation Systems and Transportation Engineering
Topic: Transportation Mode Detection from GPS data, 3-D GIS, Live Web
GIS, Utilization of GPS and Accelerometers in Smartphones (Android and
Iphone)
Supervisor: Prof. Steve Liang
http://sensorweb.geomatics.ucalgary.ca/about-us
Postdoctoral
Research
Fellow
University of Chile (Universidad de Chile)
Department of Civil Engineering,
October 2009 – May 2010
Research for the Transantiago Public Transit, Santiago, Chile
Topic:‘Transit Performance Monitoring and Analysis with Real-Time
Massive GPS Bus Probes of Transantiago in Santiago, Chile: Emphasis on
Development of Indices for Bunching and Schedule Adherence’
Supervisor: Prof. Marcela Munizaga, Prof. Francisco Javier Martinez
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Graduate Student Supervision
Co-Supervisor
Master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, KUSTAR
Student Name: Eman Obaid Abdalla Hableel
-Advising on the topic of ADS-B signal which is mainly used by aviation traffic management
-Produced 1 WoS journal paper and 2 international conference papers (WoS and Scopus)
Funding History
KUIRF Level 1, 2015: CO-PI: Dr. Young-Ji Byon, (AED 132,000)
Analysis of Energy Efficient Building through Building Energy Modeling in Design
KUSTAR-KAIST Level 2, 2014:
PI at KAIST: Dr. Hwasoo Yeo, PI at KUSTAR: Dr. Young-Ji Byon, (AED 333,000)
Traffic Monitoring and Travel Time Prediction using Mobile Sensing Data
KUSTAR-KAIST Seed Money 2013:
PI at KAIST: Dr. Hwasoo Yeo, PI at KUSTAR: Dr. Young-Ji Byon, (AED 245,000)
Real Time Traffic Monitoring and Network-wide Travel Time Prediction with Multi-Sensor
Data Fusion in Mobile Environment
Research Proposal Experiences
2010 GEOIDE (GEOmatics for Informed DEcisions)(www.geoide.ulaval.ca/home.aspx)SII
–PIV-#89, “TrafficPulse App and Geopot Cloud”
2010 MITACS Canada: Making research count(www.mitacs.ca);Elevate Strategic Funding,
“Development of Framework for Integrating Smartphones for Public Transit
Information Applications”
2008 Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (www.mto.gov.on.ca);Highway Infrastructure
Innovation Funding Program: Data Fusion of Multiple Traffic Information Sources.
“Traffic Data Fusion using SCAAT Kalman Filters”
2006 Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (www.mto.gov.on.ca);Highway Infrastructure
Innovation Funding Program: Dynamic Traffic Monitoring via GPS Technologies.
“Critical Software Algorithms for Trip Detection, Link Matching and Mode
Identification (Topic 107: Using GIS, GPS and Other Land Information Technologies)
2004 Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (www.mto.gov.on.ca);Highway Infrastructure
Innovation Funding Program: GISTT: GPS-GIS Integrated System for Travel Time
Surveys
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Scholarly and Technical Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Papers (*Corresponding Author)
Oh, S., Byon, Y.J., Jang, K., and Yeo, H.*, Short-term travel-time prediction on
highway: A Review on Data-driven approach, Transportation Reviews, Jan 2015, Vol
35, Issue 1, pp. 4-32, DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2014.992496 (Web of Science and
Scopus Listed)
*Byon, Y.J., and Liang, S., Real-Time Transportation Mode Detection using
Smartphones and Artificial Neural Networks: Performance Comparisons between
Smartphones and Conventional Global Positioning System sensors, Journal of
Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations, DOI:
10.1080/15472450.2013.824762, June 2014 (Web of Science and Scopus Listed)
*Baek, J., Byon, Y.J., Hableel, E., and Al-Qutayri, M., Making air traffic surveillance
more reliable: a new authentication framework for automatic dependent surveillance-
broadcast (ADS-B) based on online/offline identity-based signature, Security and
Communication Networks, March 2015, Vol 8, Issue 5, pp. 740-750, DOI:
DOI: 10.1002/sec.1021 (Web of Science and Scopus Listed)
Jeong, Y.-S., *Byon, Y.-J., Castro-Neto, M.M., and Easa, S.M., Supervised
Weighting-Online Learning Algorithm for Short-Term Traffic Flow Prediction, IEEE
Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, December 2013, Vol. 14, Issue: 4,
pp. 1700-1707, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2013.2267735 (Web of Science and Scopus
Listed)
*Li, Y.Q., Mei, S.G., Byon, Y.J., Wang, J.L., and Zhang, G.L., Highly Solar
Radiation Reflective Cr2O3–3TiO2 Orange Nanopigment Prepared by a Polymer-
Pyrolysis Method, ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 2014, 2 (2), pp 318–
321,
DOI: 10.1021/sc400363b (Web of Science and Scopus Listed)
Wang, J.L., *Li, Y.Q., Byon, Y.J., Mei, S.G. and Zhang, G.L. Synthesis and
characterization of NiTiO3 yellow nano pigment with high solar radiation reflection
efficiency, Powder Technology, Feb 2013, Vol 235, pp. 303-306 (Web of Science
and Scopus Listed)
*Byon, Y.J., B. Abdulhai, and A. Shalaby. Incorporating Scenic View, Slope, and
Crime Rates into Route Choices: Emphasis on 3-D GIS with Digital Elevation Models
and Crime Rate Geospatial Data. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the
Transportation Review Board, No. 2183, TRB, National Research Council,
Washington, D.C., 2010, pp. 94-102. (Web of Science, Scopus, and TRB Listed)
*Byon, Y. J., B. Abdulhai, and A. Shalaby. Real-Time Transportation Mode
Detection via Tracking Global Positioning System Mobile Devices. Journal of
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Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 13, No. 4, October 2009, pp. 161-170. (Web
of Science and Scopus Listed)
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers (*Presenter)
Roh, C.G., Son, B., Byon, Y.J., and *Kim, T.H., Influence of Heavy Vehicles on
Highway Traffic Flows: Case study in Greater Seoul Area, Korea. TRB 94th Annual
Meeting, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington,
D.C., 2015.
(TRB Listed)
*Eman Hableel, Young-Ji Byon, and Joon Sang Baek, Public Key Infrastructure for
UAE: A Case Study, The 6th International Conference on Security of Information and
Networks, November, 2013 (Scopus and ACM Listed)
Byon, Y.J., Jeong, Y.S., Easa, S.M., and Baek, J., Feasibility Analysis of
Transportation Applications Based on APIs of Social Network Services, The 8th
International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-
2013), December 9-12, 2013, London UK, (Scopus Listed)
Joonsang Baek, *Young-Ji Byon, Eman Hableel, and Mahmoud Al-Qutayri, An
Authentication Framework for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Based
on Online/Offline Identity-Based Signature, the 8th International Conference on P2P,
Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing, October 28-30, 2013, University of
Technology of Compiegne, Compiegne, France. (Web of Science, Scopus and IEEE
Xplorer listed)
*Young-Ji Byon, Young Seon Jeong, Joonsang Baek, and Chan Yeob Yeun, GPS
and GIS for Travel Time Surveys in UAE, Geospatial Scientific Summit (GSS) 2013,
November , 2013, Dubai, UAE.
*Young-Ji Byon, Young Seon Jeong, Peng-Yong Kong, Mohamad Z. Zineddin, 3-D
GIS and Intelligent Transportation Systems, Geospatial Scientific Summit (GSS)
2012, November 12-13, 2012, Dubai, UAE.
Raja Jayaraman, *Young-Ji Byon, Young-Seon Jeong and Kyriaki Polychronopoulou,
Future Applications of GIS in UAE Healthcare Industry: Emphasis on Geo-tagging
Hospitals for Emergency Vehicle Routing and Drug Management, Geospatial
Scientific Summit (GSS) 2012, November 12-13, 2012, Dubai, UAE.
*Ren-Yu Li, Steve H.L. Liang, Dong-Woo Lee and Young-Ji Byon, TrafficPulse: A
Mobile GISystem for Transportation, MobiGIS 2012 ACM SIGSPATIAL
International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems, November 6th
2012, Redondo Beach, CA, USA. (Scopus and ACM Listed)
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*Byon, Y.J., C.E. Cortés, Francisco J. Martinez, M. Munizaga, and M. Zúñiga.
Transit Performance Monitoring and Analysis with Massive GPS Bus Probes of
Transantiago in Santiago, Chile: Emphasis on Development of Indices for Bunching
and Schedule Adherence. TRB 90th
Annual Meeting, Transportation Research Board
of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2011. (TRB Listed)
*Byon, Y. J., A. Shalaby, and B. Abdulhai. Traffic Data Fusion using SCAAT
Kalman Filters. TRB 89th
Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD.
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2010.
pp. 16. (TRB Listed)
*Byon, Y.J., B. Abdulhai, and A. Shalaby. Impact of Sampling Rate of GPS-Enabled
Cell Phones on Mode Detection and GIS Map Matching Performance. TRB 86th
Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD. Transportation Research Board of the
National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2007. pp. 21. (TRB Listed)
*Byon, Y. J., A. Shalaby, and B. Abdulhai. GISTT: GPS-GIS Integrated System for
Travel Time Surveys. TRB 85th
Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM.
Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2006.
pp. 16. (TRB Listed)
*Byon, Y.J., B. Abdulhai, and A. Shalaby. Travel Time Collection and Traffic
Monitoring via GPS Technologies. 9th
International IEEE Conference on Intelligent
Transportation Systems, ITSC 2006, Sept 17-20, Toronto, Canada, Paper Number:
432 (Scopus and IEEE Xplorer Listed)
*Byon, Y.J., B. Abdulhai, and A. Shalaby. Travel Time Collection and Real Time
Route Guidance with Global Positioning System (GPS) and Geographical
Information System (GIS). CSCE 2005 Conference, Toronto, Canada.
*Naguib, Hani E., S.W. Song, Y.J. Byon, and C.B. Park. Effect of Supercritical CO2
and N2 on the Crystallization of Linear and Branched Propylene Resins Filled with
Foaming Additives. University of Toronto/Nomaco Inc. SPE, ANTEC Technical
Papers, Vol. 46, pp. 1867-1873, 2000. (Web of Science Listed)
Conference Presentations without Proceedings (*Presenter)
*Byon, Y.J., Baek, J.S., and Jeong, Y.S. Determination of Noise Accumulation using
ADS-B Signals and Geographic Information Systems, INFORMS Annual Meeting:
Bridging Data and Decisions, November 9-12, 2014, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Young-Ji Byon and *Young Seon Jeong, Transit Passengers’ Schedule Awareness
and Vehicle Load Level Simulation in Abu Dhabi, 2013 ITS America Annual Meeting
and Exhibition, April 22-24, 2013, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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*Young-Ji Byon, Said Easa, Raja Jayaraman and Young Seon Jeong, Monitoring
Shock Waves on the Roads via Massive GPS Probes, INFORMS Annual Meeting
2012, October 14-17, Phoenix, AZ, USA
*Raja Jayaraman, Young-Ji Byon and Young Seon Jeong, Mitigating the Effects of
Drug Shortages in the Global Healthcare Supply Chains, INFORMS Annual Meeting
2012, October 14-17, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Conference Abstracts (*Presenter)
*Byon, Y.J., Baek, J.S., and Jeong, Y.S. Determination of Noise Accumulation using
ADS-B Signals and Geographic Information Systems, INFORMS Annual Meeting:
Bridging Data and Decisions, November 9-12, 2014, San Francisco, U.S.A.
*Byon, Y.J. and Said Easa. Social Network Services for Transportation Engineering:
Preliminary Analysis and Future Implications, Intelligent Transportation Systems of
Canada, Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, ACGM 2011
Technical Reports
2007 Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (www.mto.gov.on.ca);Highway Infrastructure
Innovation Funding Program: Dynamic Traffic Monitoring via GPS Technologies.
“Critical Software Algorithms for Trip Detection, Link Matching and Mode
Identification (Topic 107: Using GIS, GPS and Other Land Information Technologies)
2005 Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (www.mto.gov.on.ca);Highway Infrastructure
Innovation Funding Program: GISTT: GPS-GIS Integrated System for Travel Time
Surveys
Invited Talks and Presentations
Dr. Young-Ji Byon, “Transportation Issues in Abu Dhabi, UAE”, July 2014, KAIST,
Korea.
Dr. Young-Ji Byon, Dr. Kitae Jang, and Dr. Yeo, “Intelligent Transportation System
Applications for UAE”, KU-KAIST 4th Research Symposium, December 2013,
KUSTAR, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Byon, Young-Ji (2013), “GIS, Transportation and Engineering”, 6th
Annual
Geospatial Intelligence Middle East 2013: GIS for Defense, Intelligence & Security,
May 15th
2013, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Byon, Young-Ji (2009), “Thinking Outside of Box: Innovative Thoughts for Traffic
Engineering”, Civil Engineering Faculty Meeting, Universidad de Chile (University
of Chile), Santiago, Chile
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Byon, Young-Ji (2008), “3-D GIS and Transportation Engineering”, Transportation
Research Seminar, ITS Testbed, University of Toronto
Byon, Young-Ji(2007) “Traffic Data Fusion Techniques and ITS”, Urban Studies Lab,
Yeonsei University, South Korea
Byon, Young-Ji (2006), “Transportation Mode Detection using GPS and GIS”,
Transportation Research Seminar, ITS Testbed, University of Toronto
Byon, Young-Ji (2006), “3-D GIS and Digital Elevation Model for Transportation
Engineering Applications”, Civil Engineering Transportation Lab at the Tokyo
University, Japan
Byon, Young-Ji (2005) “Transportation Engineering and Planning: U of T Research”,
invited talk, for high school students during the Intelligent Transportation Systems
(ITS) Lab Tour at the University of Toronto
Byon, Young-Ji. (2004), "GPS for Travel Time Data Collection and Real Time Route
Guidance", Transportation Research Seminar, ITS Testbed, University of Toronto
Theses
Byon, Y., 2011. "GISTMARG: GPS and GIS for Traffic Monitoring and Route
Guidance" Ph.D. Thesis. Graduate Department of Civil Engineering, University of
Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Byon, Y., 2004. "GISTT: GPS-GIS Integrated System for Travel Time Surveys"
M.A.Sc. Thesis. Graduate Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada
Byon, Y., 2003. "Solubility of Gases in Polymers" B.A.Sc. Undergraduate Program
Thesis, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Canada
Media
“Quienes Young-Ji?”, T-Noticias, Ingenieria, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile,
-Interviewed on the Post-Doctoral work in Chile (2009)
“The Nature of Things” by Christopher Hume, Toronto Star columnist, CBC TV
-Interviewed on my PhD thesis work. (2008)
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Teaching and Academic Working Experience
Post
Graduate
Supervisor
2013-
Present
Course
Instructor
Sept 2014-
Present
Sept 2013-
June 2014
Sept. 2012-
June 2013
Jan. 2012 –
May 2012
Researcher
Co-Supervisor
Master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Eman Obaid Abdalla Hableel
-Advising on the topic of ADS-B signal which is mainly used by aviation
traffic management
AERO/CIVE/MECH 201 Engineering Dynamics, Khalifa University, UAE
CIVE 492 Urban Transit Planning and Operations, KUSTAR, UAE
CIVE 180 Engineering Graphics and Visualization, KUSTAR, UAE
AERO/CIVE/MECH 201 Engineering Dynamics, Khalifa University, UAE
CIVE 310 Geomatics, Khalifa University, UAE
CIVE 380 Transportation Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE
AERO/CIVE/MECH 201 Engineering Dynamics, Khalifa University, UAE
ENGR 200 Statics, Khalifa University, UAE
ENGR 200 Statics, Khalifa University, UAE
Dec. 2010 –
2011
GeoSensor Web Laboratory
University of Calgary
- Integration of live GIS, 3-D GIS and Android/iPhone applications for ITS
applications
Oct. 2009 –
May. 2010
Transportation Engineering Laboratory
Universidad de Chile (University of Chile)
- Developed a data analysis procedure and tool that extract public transit
performance measures from the buses of Transantiago, the metro transit
system in Santiago, Chile
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May 2004 –
Sept. 2009
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Laboratory
University of Toronto
- Developed a traffic monitoring system, GISTMARG (GPS-GIS Integrated
System for Traffic Monitoring and Route Guidance) that utilizes mobile GPS
devices in GIS platform
- Developed 3-D GIS based route guidance algorithms
- Developed a travel time survey tool, GISTT (GPS-GIS Integrated System
for Travel Time Surveys) that is developed in ArcGIS platform using
ArcObjects and MapObjects customization programming language
Lecturer
Sept. 2007 -
May 2009
Probability and Statistics for Civil Engineers (CIV263H1S)
Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
- Course evaluation was higher than average of all engineering courses
- Offered to 2nd year undergraduate engineering students
- Enrolment of over 150 students each term
- Designing lectures for 5 hours of weekly sessions and assignments
- Preparing and marking midterm and final examinations
- Assisting students outside of class hours
- Managing 5 teaching assistant graduate students
Teaching
Assistant
Spring 2005
-
Spring 2007
Probability and Statistics for Civil Engineers (CIV263H1S)
Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
- Offered to 2nd
year undergraduate engineering students
- Held weekly tutorials to teach materials related to weekly assignments
- Invigilated bi-weekly quizzes
Fall 2004 -
Fall 2008
Engineering Mathematics I (CIV261F)
Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
- Offered to 2nd
year undergraduate engineering students
- Taught numerical methods in tutorials and helped students with assignments
Materials for Civil Engineers
Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
- Offered to 3rd
year undergraduate engineering students
- Taught the properties of concrete and other materials for constructions
Fall 2000 -
June 2002
Engineering Design (MIE241S)
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
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- Taught 2nd
year under graduate students while I myself was under graduate
student
- Evaluated engineering projects for their structural strength and innovations
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Professional Working Experience
September
2010 – 2011
Trans-Plan Inc.
Vice-President
- Advises on various types and fields of transportation engineering including
ITS, transit, planning and operations
- Develops smartphone applications for transportation surveys and traffic
monitoring
Summer
2008
IntelliCAN Transportation Systems Inc.
Transportation Engineer
- Designed a research project to assess the performance of GPS based parking
monitoring device by Skymeter Corp.
- Development of Comprehensive Traffic Microsimulation Models for the
Toronto Queens Quay Corridor for the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization
Corporation (TWRC)
Summer
2006
IntelliCAN Transportation Systems Inc.
Transportation Engineeer
-Assessed the performance measures of street cars on the Queen's way
-Collected data on the field (Supervisor: Kenny Ling)
- Development of Comprehensive Traffic Microsimulation Models for the
407 ETR Widening Project, Phase II: Highway 400 to Highway 410 for the
407ETR Corporation
Summer
2001
Newman Engineering Inc.
Product Designer and Programmer
-Designed a product prototype for “Soundblast” product sold in Canadian
Tires Inc.
-Programmed G-Codes for cutting with CNC machines
Software Experiences
ArcGIS, ArcObjects and MapObjects
- Used them for my M.A.Sc. and Ph.D research works with respect to transportation
applications. My experience with them can be adapted to any new GIS platforms
C++, Visual Basic, VBA
- ArcObjects and MapObjects can be accessed via VBA in ArcGIS or DLL using C++
Paramics, Vissim, EMME 2
- Worked with the transportation micro-simulation packages in various projects and
graduate course assignments
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Neurosolutions, MATLAB - Used for implementing artificial intelligence methods
Professional and Scientific Membership
-Reviewer, Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
-Reviewer, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, Taylor & Francis Group.
-Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
-Reviewer, Journal of Advance Transportation Engineering
-Reviewer, Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research
Board.
-Reviewer, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.
-Reviewer, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
-Reviewer, Journal of Applied Mathematics
-Reviewer, Journal of Advanced Transportation
-Reviewer, KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering
-Reviewer, Conference Proceedings of Geospatial Scientific Summit (GSS) 2012,
November 12-13, 2012, Dubai, UAE.
- Reviewer, Transportation Research Board (GIS & Applications Committee ABJ60)-
Member, Transportation Division, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
- Reviewer, 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems,
ITSC 2006
- Member, Transportation Research Board (TRB)
- Friend, Geographic Information Science & Applications (ABJ60)
- Member, Institute of Transportation Engineering (ITE)
- Member, Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF)
- Member, Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA)
- Member, Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE)
- Member, IEEE
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-Member,KOTAA, Korea Transportation Association in America
-Member, INFORMS, Institute for Operations Research and the Management
Sciences
-Member, ITS Canada, Intelligent Transportation Systems Society of Canada
-Member, CSCE, Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
-Member, ONE-ITS Research Society, Canada
Academic and Teaching Career Development
2011
2008-
2009
ArcGIS 10.1: Transform your Organization Seminar, Westin Mina Seyahi, Dubai,
October 16th, 2012
Mitacs Elevate, Project Management Workshops, Toronto, Canada, 2011
Mitacs Elevate 1-Day Training, Communicating Your Unique Value To The
Marketplace, Toronto, Canada, 2011
Mitacs Elevate Presentation Skills Workshop, Toronto, Canada, 2011
Prospective Professors In Training (PPIT) Program at the University of
Toronto
-The PPIT program aims to prepare senior Ph.D. students to become successful
junior faculty members.
-The program touches on many aspects of the academic career; that includes
establishing a research program, managing time and students, applying for
research grants, and university administration and governance services.
-A core component of the program is to attend a series of lectures towards
developing teaching skills.
2007 Completed the “Engineering Learning and Teaching” Seminar Series at the
University of Toronto
-The course aims to develop the necessary skills required for course design,
classroom management and handling of teaching responsibilities.
2006 Chaired and Co-Chaired technical sessions at the 9th International IEEE –
-Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (September 17-20, 2006),
Toronto – CANADA
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2004 Successfully completed the Teaching Assistants’ Training Program (TATP)
atthe University of Toronto
-The TATP Certificate provides TAs with a practical and productive way to
reflect on their teaching, participate in pedagogical development, implement new
teaching strategies and engage in dialogue with colleagues from across campus
about teaching experiences.
Academic and Organizational Services
Sept 2014-
Present
Manager
GIS and Transportation Lab (H334)
-Setting up the new lab of CIEE for potential presentations and
demonstrations related to GIS and Transportation engineering.
2012-
Sept 2014
2013-
Aug 2014
2013
2013
2012-
Present
2012-
Present
Civil Engineering Departmental Intranet Web Master
-Maintains the official departmental web page on the Intranet
Civil Engineering Departmental Internship Officer
-Communicate with the Internship Office and Grade CIEE students on
Internship
Guest Editor of a Web of Science Journal (Impact Factor = 0.727)
Special Issue for International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member for Transportation
Engineering
The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and
Communications (August 20-23, 2013, Beijing, China)
- http://www.china-iot.net/GreenCom_program_track7.htm
- Security and privacy in vehicular networks
- Privacy enhanced social networks
- Remote data integrity and possession
Organizing Committee Member (IEEE Sponsored)
Geospatial Scientific Summit (GSS) 2012, November 12-13, 2012, Dubai,
UAE.
Geospatial Scientific Summit (GSS) 2013, November 27-28, 2012, Dubai,
UAE.
http://www.gistec.com/events/gss/committee2013.html
Committee Member (2013-Present), Founding organizing member
(2012-2013)
Library Committee
-Represents the Civil Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering (CIEE)
and Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE) Departments
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2012-
Present
2012-
Present
2013-
Present
2012-
Present
2013-
Present
2008
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee Member, Khalifa University
Representing Civil Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering
Department
Official Point of Contact
Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC), Abu Dhabi Systems & Information
Centre (ADSIC) and ESRI’s MoU at Khalifa University of Science
Technology and Research
-Helping all interested faculty members at Khalifa University get access to
the maps from Abu Dhabi governments and installing, maintaining and
tutoring on using the ArcGIS software on their computers
Associate Chair
Department of Civil Engineering
Khalifa University of Science Technology and Research
Advisor of Civil Engineering Students
Advises to 12+ Civil Engineering Undergraduate Students
Committee Member and Editorial Board of Petrotex Publication Group
http://www.petrotex.us
-Journal of Enviromentally Friendly Processes
-American Journal of Oil and Chemical Technologies
Vice-President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student
Chapter at the University of Toronto
-Duties include organizing scientific seminars related to transportation
research, and planning social events for members
2007 Elected as the Senior Director and Mentor of the Korean Engineering
Student Association (KESA) at the University of Toronto, a student group
recognized by the University and a member.
Vice-President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student
Chapter at the University of Toronto
2006 Co-founded the Korean Graduate Student Association at the University of
Toronto, and completed the process of registering the association as a
recognized group by the University of Toronto.
Vice-President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student
Chapter at the University of Toronto
2005 Vice-President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student
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Chapter at the University of Toronto
2004 Vice-President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Student
Chapter at the University of Toronto
2000 Elected as the President of the Engineering Science program at the
University of Toronto representing 140 2nd
year undergraduate students
1999 Elected as the President of the Engineering Science program at the
University of Toronto representing 200 1st year undergraduate students
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Scholarships and Awards
2014 Certificate of Reviewing Excellence
Elsevier and the Editors of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging
Technologies awarded the certificate to selected reviewers with major
contributions
2011, 2010,
2007, 2006
Korean Transportation Association in America (KOTAA) Excellent Research
Award
- Received the awards at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual
conferences
2009 Millennium Institute Complex Engineering Systems
(Iniciativa Científica Milenio) Chile Post-Doctorate Fellowship
-A government funded research group in Santiago, Chile
-Chilean international research funding in collaboration with their nation’s
top school, Universidad de Chile.
2004-2009 The University of Toronto Open Fellowship
-Research grant based on grades annually
2007 Transportation Seminar Presentation Award, ITS Lab, University of
Toronto
- Topic on "GPS for Travel Time Data Collection and Real Time Route
Guidance"
2002 Ranked 1st in Mechanical Engineering (Manufacturing Option)
Undergraduate Program
2001 Selected as a finalist of New York Student Design Competition
2001 The Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering 24th Annual Student
Design Competition, Memorial University, St. John's Newfoundland Canada
- Represented University of Toronto, Ranked 4th in Canada
1998 Leonardo Davinci National Engineering Contest
- Ranked within top 100 in Canada
1994-1998 School champion medals received in Canadian Mathematics Competition for
consecutive 5 years
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List of References
Professor Baher Abdulhai, PhD
University of California - Irvine
(PhD Co-Supervisor)
- Canada Research Chair in Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS)
- Director, Toronto Intelligent Transportation
Systems Centre
- Associate Professor, Civil Engineering,
University of Toronto
35 St. George Street
Toronto, ON
Canada M5S 1A4
Tel: (416) 946-5036
Fax: (416) 978-5054
Email: [email protected]
Professor Amer Shalaby, PhD
University of Toronto
(PhD Co-Supervisor)
- Associate Professor, Civil Engineering,
University of Toronto
35 St. George Street
Toronto, ON
Canada M5S 1A4
Tel: (416) 978-5907
Fax: (416) 978-5054
Email: [email protected]
Professor Steve H.L. Liang, PhD
Assistant Professor York University, Ontario,
Canada
(Supervisor of my postdoctoral work)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Geomatics
Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering,
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Tel: (403)220-4703
Fax: (403)284-1980
http://sensorweb.geomatics.ucalgary.ca
Email: [email protected]
Professor Kaiwen Xia, PhD
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
(Instructor of CIV261F)
- Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering,
University of Toronto
GB 314A, 35 St. George Street
Toronto, ON
Canada M5S 1A4
Tel: (416) 978-5942
Email: [email protected]