Bilal Farooq
Bilal Farooq is Canada Research Chair in Disruptive Transportation Technologies and Services and an Associate Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. Always quick to take things apart to see how they work internally, Farooq calls this approach “learning through curiosity,” and it still drives him today. Farooq’s 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 Québec (2014) and Ontario (2018).
Selected Publications
Hasanpour, M., & Farooq, B. (2025). The effects of urban form on public transportation demand in a developing city (external link) . Case Studies on Transport Policy, 20(101430), 101430. doi:10.1016/j.cstp.2025.101430
Farooq, B., Badu-Marfo, G., & Al Mallah, R. (2024). Defense via Behavior Attestation against Attacks in Connected and Automated Vehicles based Federated Learning Systems (external link) . VTC Spring 2024, 1–7.
Nazemi, M., Rababah, B., Ramos, D., Zhao, T., & Farooq, B. (2024). Decoding Pedestrian Stress on Urban Streets using Electrodermal Activity Monitoring in Virtual Immersive Reality (external link) . CoRR, abs/2408.11769.