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Zachary received his PhD from McGill University and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, specifically at the Transport and Mobility Laboratory (TRANSP-OR). He joined Concordia University in 2010 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning & Environment, before transitioning to the Concordia Institute of Information Systems Engineering in 2021. His professional background includes experience as a transportation modeler and regional public transportation planner. His research interests emphasize emerging technologies in transport-related data collection, computational geospatial data processing, statistical artificial intelligence techniques, and discrete choice experiments. Zachary teaches courses focusing on advanced quantitative methods and transportation Geographic Information Systems (GIS), where students become familiar with R programming and statistical analysis. He has supervised graduate students and published numerous papers on intelligent transportation systems and data analysis methods, contributing to the field in various impactful ways.
Concordia University • Montreal, QC, Canada
Teaching and researching in transportation and information systems.
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