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I am a Senior Transportation Engineer at AtkinsRéalis. I earned Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Wyoming (UW) in 2021. Earlier, I received M.Sc. in Civil Engineering from UW in 2018 and completed B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2014.  Prior to joining Atkins, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at UW and Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI). 

My background, academic research, and experiences are in the field of transportation and traffic engineering with a focus on traffic safety and operations. My major areas of interest include Big Data analytics, statistical and machine learning modeling of traffic safety data, traffic operation analysis, naturalistic driving studies, human factors, traffic simulation, and cooperative automated systems. My research holds a unique place in the field because I focused on addressing the most critical safety and operation challenges faced by transportation agencies. I have more than 9 years of research experience, and have been contributing to various research projects and delivering research and technical assistance to several clients including the US DOT-Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT), and Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). Being involved in a variety of research projects, I have been capable of lessening the common gap between research and practice by bringing together my critical thinking and analytical ability to generate research outcomes more relevant and applicable to solve practical problems. Over the past 9 years, I have acquired unique skills, such as analyzing Big Data, leveraging advanced statistical modeling and machine learning techniques, and developing microsimulation models in my research works. All of these skills have made my research approaches and findings exceptional and innovative.  

I am a recognized expert in naturalistic driving studies and have conducted numerous research on this topic. I have authored/co-authored more than 30 peer-reviewed research articles published in esteemed journals and presented in leading transportation engineering conferences including Accident Analysis and Prevention, Journal of Safety Research, Journal of Transportation Safety and Security, Transportation Research Record, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations, etc. My publications have been cited more than 600 times according to Google Scholar, thereby demonstrating that these publications are widely recognized and relied upon in the field of transportation engineering. I have been serving as an active reviewer of multiple renowned journals/conferences, such as Accident Analysis and Prevention, Transportation Research Board (TRB) and Transportation Research Record, ASCE–Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, and Journal of Transportation Safety and Security. 

I am currently a Member and Secretary of the TRB Standing Committee on Road Weather (AKR50). In recognition of my significant contributions to the area of traffic safety and human factors research in transportation engineering, I have been nominated by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine to serve as a Panel Member of a BTSCRP Project (BTS-28) on Teen Driving Performance Associated with Distraction, ADHD, and Other Risk Factors. In addition, I received multiple awards including the ITE CO/WY Section Student of the Year Award, ITE CO/WY Section Graduate Level Scholarship, ITE CO/WY Section Executive Committee Leadership Award, and Lifesavers Traffic Safety Scholar. I have also been nominated to present my dissertation in Doctoral Student Research in Transportation Safety-Hybrid Session at the 99th TRB Annual Meeting in 2020.

Through my work, I always dedicate myself to provide practical and implementable solutions for issues related to safety and operations of transportation. The overreaching goal of my work is to improve the safety, mobility, and operations of roadways by proposing various practical and implementation strategies through my unique skills and extensive experience in Big Data analytics, statistical modeling, data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques, spatial analysis, and microsimulation modeling.