Bilal Farooq
Bilal Farooq is Canada Research Chair in Disruptive Transportation Technologies and Services and an Associate Professor at 吃瓜直播. Always quick to take things apart to see how they work internally, Farooq calls this approach 鈥渓earning through curiosity,鈥� and it still drives him today. Farooq鈥檚 spirit of inquiry animates his work in traffic flow simulation and prediction, connected autonomous vehicles, and urban congestion.
He is the Founding Director of Laboratory of Innovations in Transportation (LiTrans). Bilal worked in the software industry for several years before starting his PhD in Transportation Engineering at University of Toronto in 2006. From 2011-2013 he did his Post-Doctoral research at EPFL, Switzerland. He received Early Career Researcher Awards both in Qu茅bec (2014) and Ontario (2018).
Selected Publications
Hasanpour, M., & Farooq, B. (2025). . Case Studies on Transport Policy, 20(101430).
Farooq, B., Badu-Marfo, G., & Al Mallah, R. (2024). . VTC Spring 2024, 1鈥�7.
Nazemi, M., Rababah, B., Ramos, D., Zhao, T., & Farooq, B. (2024). . CoRR, abs/2408.11769.