Faculty + Staff

Dr. Tony Qiu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta and holds both the Canada Research Chair in Cooperative Transportation Systems and the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Intelligent Transportation Systems. Since joining the U of A in 2009, Dr. Qiu founded the Centre for Smart Transportation (CST) and was recently appointed the Scientific Director for the Autonomous Systems Initiative (ASI), a multi-million dollar, Campus Alberta, research program focused on developing artificial intelligence and automated systems. He received his Ph.D. 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. 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 Traveler Information Systems, and other new technologies and practices. In recognition of this work, Dr. Qiu was the recipient of the Young ITS Canada Leadership Award in 2019.

For more information, please visit Dr. Qiu's faculty profile or website. He can be contacted at tony.qiu@ualberta.ca.

Dr. Amy Kim joined the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta in August 2011. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 2011. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked in the transportation engineering and planning industry both in the U.S. and Canada. Her research interests are in transportation systems analysis; transportation systems design and management concepts; urban and interurban multi-modal systems planning; air transportation; and transportation economics.

For more information, please visit Dr. Kim's faculty profile or website. She can be contacted at amy.kim@ualberta.ca.

Dr. Karim El-Basyouny is the holder of the inaugural City of Edmonton Research Chair in Urban Traffic Safety. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia in 2011. His research applies advanced statistical techniques to traffic safety in order to evaluate safety-based initiatives. Currently, he is organizing this research around four subjects: crash modeling, safety evaluation, speed management, and the analysis of surrogate safety measures.

For more information, please visit Dr. El-Basyouny's faculty profile. He can be contacted at basyouny@ualberta.ca.

Dr. Tae J. Kwon joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor in August 2016, shortly after earning his PhD degree at the University of Waterloo with the prestigious UW Engineering Doctoral Thesis Award. His current research areas include location optimization of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) facilities, winter road maintenance, spatial and temporal analyses of road traffic and safety using geostatistics, geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) transportation, and application of Big Data for estimation and forecasting of road and traffic conditions. He has published more than 30 papers including peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, project reports and book chapters. Dr. Kwon received the Early Career Researcher Award three times in 2017 and 2018 from the University of Alberta. In March 2019, he also received the 2019 Great Supervisor Award for excellent supervisory contributions and dedicated work of great supervisors at the University of Alberta.

For more information, please visit Dr. Kwon's faculty profile. He can be contacted at tjkwon@ualberta.ca.

Liqun Peng is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Dr. Qiu in the Centre for Smart Transportation (CST) at the University of Alberta. He received his Ph.D. degree in Automotive Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology in China in 2015. Prior to returning to CST, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Qiu on ACTIVE-AURORA connected vehicle test-bed from 2015-2017. More recently, Liqun was appointed as an Associate Professor at East China Jiaotong University, P.R. China, 2017-2019. His current research interests are in the areas of connected vehicle and traffic big data analysis, specifically for improving traffic mobility and safety on both arterial roads and freeways. He enjoys jogging, hiking, and travelling in his spare time.

Dr. Sharon Harper has recently joined the CST as the Technical and Communications Writer after 15 years experience in Higher Education in the UK. There, she worked with students and academics at all levels, as well with artists, photographers and designers looking to express their ideas effectively through the written word. She specializes in communications writing, academic copy editing and writing skills, and focuses on content structuration and argumentation as well as the fundamentals of grammar and spelling. She is also a published researcher and author.

Rachelle Foss is a technical writer and editor for the Centre for Smart Transportation at the University of Alberta. Rachelle has been writing and editing professionally since 2011. Her experience spans various levels of communication including The Western Sentinel military newspaper, magazine articles, and ILM training modules for NAIT. She is the editor of a horror fiction anthology published in 2017. And, in addition to serving as a member of the editorial board for an undergraduate research journal since 2011, Rachelle has published seven undergraduate environmental research papers. Despite a diverse range of experience, technical and academic writing is her guilty pleasure. Rachelle graduated from Grant MacEwan in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Communication and Professional Writing.