Biography

Dr. Tony Z. Qiu is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and holds both the Canada Research Chair in Cooperative Transportation Systems and the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Intelligent Transportation Systems. After joining the University of Alberta in 2009, Dr. Qiu founded the Intelligent Transportation Systems research lab. He is also the Scientific Director for the Autonomous Systems Initiative, a multi-million dollar Campus Alberta research program focused on developing artificial intelligence and automated systems. 

Dr. Qiu received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 and his BSc and MSc from Tsinghua University of China in 2001 and 2003, respectively. From 2008-2009, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the California PATH Program at the University of California, Berkeley. His research aims to enhance our understanding of roadway traffic operation and control as well as explore new transportation technologies like connected and automated vehicles. He has collaborated with organizations across the public and private sectors on projects related to intelligent transportation systems, wireless sensor networks for traffic data collection and analysis, advanced traffic management systems, advanced traveller information systems, and other new technologies and practices.

Dr. Qiu can be contacted at tony.qiu@ualberta.ca. 

Awards & Honours

• Best Paper Award - IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems (IEEE ICAS), 2021

• NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2020

• Young ITS Canada Leadership Award, Awarded by the 2019 ITS Canada Awards Committee and the Board of Directors of ITS Canada, 2019

• Canada Research Chair in Cooperative Transportation Systems, 2018

• 2017 ITS Canada Award – in the category of Canadian Universities/Colleges ITS Project/Program/Innovation Award, for ACTIVE-AURORA Connected Vehicle Test Bed, October 2017

• 2017 Best Paper Award – “An Enrollment and Registration Service for Secure V2X in ITS,” ITS World Congress, October 2017

• 2016 TRB Truck and Bus Safety Committee Deborah Freund Paper Award 

• ITS Canada Award – in the category of New Canadian Commercial/Industry/Academic Technology Innovation/R&D, for research collaboration with City of Edmonton, awarded at ITS Canada Annual Conference, May 2016 

• Second Best Poster Award – NSERC DIVA Network Workshop, February 2016

• Faculty of Engineering Research Award—University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering, 2015

• Minister’s Award of Excellence—Process Innovation, 2013. 

• Best Paper Award—Annual CSCE Conference: 9th International Transportation Special Conference, 2012.

• Best Poster Award—World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) in Berkeley, 2007.