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Mahmudur Fatmi is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. He received his PhD in Civil Resource Engineering from Dalhousie University in November 2017 and started as an assistant professor at UBC in July 2018. As the director of the UBC Integrated Transportation Research (UiTR) laboratory, his research focuses on transportation demand modelling and simulation to assist in the formulation of effective transportation and land use policies as well as infrastructure investment decisions aimed at decarbonizing the transportation sector. His work primarily concentrates on developing and applying econometric and machine learning models to understand travel behavior, as well as building and deploying agent-based microsimulation tools for testing alternative transportation-related scenarios. The central concept of his research involves understanding interconnections among transportation choices, land use-related decisions, and environmental impacts. He actively collaborates with industry, government transit agencies, and indigenous communities, and he has initiated collaborations with Canadian and international scholars.
University of British Columbia • Okanagan campus
Teaching and conducting research in transportation engineering.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.