JOB TITLE/DEPARTMENT:
Professor (Director)/Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto
BIO/CV:
Amer Shalaby is Professor and Bahen/Tanenbaum Chair in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute (UTTRI), founding Director of the Transit Analytics Lab (TAL) and Co-Director of the Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation Systems (CATTS).
Dr. Shalaby is specialized in transit planning and scheduling, intelligent transit systems, transit operational management, transit system resilience, automated and connected transit technologies, and AI applications to transit.
Dr. Shalaby is an elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, the recipient of the CSCE Sandford Fleming Award, ThinkTransit Award of Excellence in Innovation and TRB William Millar Award. He has served on the editorial boards of several international journals. Dr. Shalaby has also served on advisory panels of multiple transportation projects in Canada and internationally.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. Shalaby’s research interests include the areas of:
• Transit planning and scheduling
• Intelligent transit systems
• Transit operational management
• Transit system resilience
• Automated and connected transit technologies
• AI applications to transit
• Transport planning and management for large-scale events
CONTACT:
Email: amer.shalaby@utoronto.ca
Phone: (416) 978-5054
Website: http://civmin.utoronto.ca/home/about-us/directory/professors/amer-shalaby/