Zachary Patterson
Zachary Patterson is a Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering. Zachary received his PhD from McGill University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne in Switzerland in the Transport and Mobility Laboratory (TRANSP-OR). He was Assistant and Associate Professor starting in 2010 in the Concordia University department of Geography, Planning & Environment. In 2021 he joined the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE).
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.
Recent Publications
Liu, B., Widener, M. J., Smith, L. G., Farber, S., Gesink, D., Minaker, L. M., Patterson, Z., Larsen, K., & Gilliland, J. (2023). Time-Geographic Project of Household Food Provision: Conceptualization and a Pilot Case Study (external link) . Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(3), 675–699.
Rahmani, S., Baghbani, A., Bouguila, N., & Patterson, Z. (2023). Graph Neural Networks for Intelligent Transportation Systems: A Survey (external link) . IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1–40.
Smith, L. G., Widener, M. J., Liu, B., Farber, S., Minaker, L. M., Patterson, Z., Larsen, K., & Gilliland, J. (2022). Comparing Household and Individual Measures of Access through a Food Environment Lens: What Household Food Opportunities Are Missed When Measuring Access to Food Retail at the Individual Level (external link) ? Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 112(2), 542–562.