Student Profiles
Mostafa Tawfeek graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt (2010), and got his MSc degree in Transportation Engineering (2014). Mostafa worked as a transportation engineering teaching assistant for Ain Shams university, El-Sherouk Academy, and Canadian International college in Cairo, Egypt. Moreover, he participated in several surveying and transportation projects in Egypt and several structural engineering projects in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Mostafa joined the transportation group at U of A as a graduate research and teaching assistant in Sept. 2014. He has also been involved in several research projects related to traffic safety and connected and autonomous vehicles. Mostafa's research has been presented at several international and national conferences. In addition, he was a member of the planning team of the first connected vehicle test bed in Canada. Mostafa's research interests include traffic microsimulation modelling, connected and autonomous vehicles, intelligent transportation systems, naturalistic driving data, sustainable transportation and traffic safety.
Active in his community, Mostafa has volunteered as a board member of the Institute of Transportation Engineering (ITE) student chapter at U of A and the treasurer of the Egyption Student Association (ESA). Currently, he is a representative of the graduate student on the FGSR council, a member of the GSA Award Selection Committee, and a volunteer in the Office of Sustainability at U of A.
Mostafa can be reached at mostafa.h.tawfeek@ualberta.ca.