I have worked as a research associate at the Institute of Transport and Logistic Studies, University of Sydney and a research fellow at Queensland University of Technology.

My current research focusses on joint modelling of traffic flow and traffic safety.

Professional affiliations

• Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012 – Present
• Member, Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (AHB45), Transportation Research Board of the National Academics, USA, 2018 – Present
• Member, TRB ACP50-3 Subcommittee on Connected and Automated Traffic Flow, Transportation Research Board of the National Academics, USA, 2020 – Present
• Member, Institute of Transport Engineers, 2019 – Present
• Member, Engineers Australia, 2020 – Present
• Member, Pakistan Engineering Council, 2012 – Present

Awards

• Best Runner-up Paper Award (2025)
• Best Supervisory Team of the Year (2024)
• Best Early Career Achievement (2023)
• Best early career researcher award (2022)
• Best paper award by Transportation Research Board (2022)
• Best paper award by Accident Analysis and Prevention (2021)

External activities

• Keynote at Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon
• Guest lectures at University of Massachusetts, Lowell
• Session chairs at IEEE conference on Connected Vehicle Systems and Traffic Flow Operations
• Delivered a guest talk on connected vehicle systems in a dedicated section at Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board

Key collaborators

My research and enterprise activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners, including:

• Local road authorities, including Nottingham, Transport for Greater Manchester, Kent, Bolton, Buckinghamshire, Leicester and many others
• Consultancies like ARUP, AECOM, Arcadis
• Transport and Mains Road, Queensland, Australia
• iMOVE