Zachary Patterson
Zachary Patterson is a Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE) at Concordia University in Montreal. He received his PhD from McGill University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland in the Transport and Mobility Laboratory (TRANSP-OR). Before joining CIISE in 2021, he served as Assistant and Associate Professor in Concordia’s Department of Geography, Planning & Environment starting in 2010.
Professionally he worked as transportation modeler at the Montreal regional public transportation planner, l'Agence metropolitaine de transport. Zachary's research focuses on: the use of emerging technologies in transport-related data collection, computational geospatial data processing, data analysis and inference with statistical and artificial intelligence techniques and discrete choice experiments.
Selected Publications
Alsaleh, T., Farooq, B., & Patterson, Z. (2026). Mobility Behaviour of Immigrants in Canada: Analyzing Mode Choice Using GPS Panel Data and Mixed Logit Models. (external link) arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.15564.
Waqfi, L., Mollajafari, M., Farooq, B., & Patterson, Z. (2026). The residential location choice of immigrants: a systematic review and future directions (external link) . Transport Reviews, 46(3), 487-524.