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Transportation & the Built Environment
Research Expertise
Transportation and the built environment are essential to the way we live and move. FEAS research addresses the urgent need for sustainable and resilient infrastructure.
By integrating smart technologies like autonomous vehicles and advanced materials, we aim to revolutionize mobility, reduce environmental impact, and enhance quality of life. Our work on the built environment—buildings, roads, and public spaces—focuses on creating safe, accessible, and sustainable infrastructure to meet the needs of growing communities.
Sample research areas include:
- Equity & Inclusivity in the Built Environment
- Infrastructure & Asset Management
- Housing & Infrastructure
- Northern & Indigenous Communities
- Occupant Comfort & Behaviour
- Remote Sensing
- Supply Chain & Logistics
- Urban Design
Cheryl Atkinson
Associate Professor; Associate Chair of Global Learning
Areas Of ExpertiseArchitectural Design, Housing and Infrastructure, Urban Design, Construction, Circular Economy, Health Wellness and Equity,
Ehsan Rezazadeh Azar
Assistant Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseComputer Vision-based Data Collection in Construction, Artificial Intelligence Applications in Built Environment, IT in Project Management, Data-driven Infrastructure Asset Management
Goetz Bramesfeld
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseApplied Aerodynamics, Flight Vehicle Design and Analysis, Small UAV Design, Rotary and Fixed Wing Aerodynamics, Motorless Flight, Flight Dynamics
Michael A. Chapman
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseImage Processing, 3D Topographic and Built Environment Modelling, Deformation Measurment and Analysis, Mobile Mapping, Sensor Fusion for Precision Mapping
Hitesh Doshi
Professor
Areas Of ExpertisePerformance of Building Envelope; Green Roofs, Blue Roofs, Cool Roofs, Rooftop Gardening, Building Energy and Water Conservation; New Home Warranty and Construction Performance; Sustainability and Building Codes and Policies
Said Easa
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseTransportation Engineering; Automated Vehicle Planning and Control; Road Safety; Transportation Human Factors; Geometric Design
Jennifer Esposito
Assistant Professor, Architect
Areas Of ExpertiseArchitectural Design, Professional Practice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Domestic Spaces, Storytelling in Architecture, Detailing and Construction, Tectonics and Materiality
Reza Faieghi
Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering / Director, Autonomous Vehicles Laboratory
Areas Of ExpertiseRobotics, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, Uncrewed Ground Vehicles, Motion Control, Motion Planning, State Estimation, Object Detection
Leila Marie Farah
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseDesign; Health; Inclusivity; Provisioning of Cities; Ecological Design; Urban Agriculture; Food Systems
Bilal Farooq
Associate Professor / Program Director, MEIE
Areas Of ExpertiseOn-demand Multimodal Transportation Systems, Sustainable Urban Transportation, Urban Air Mobility, Automated Vehicles, and eXtended Reality for Transportation
Paul Floerke
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseArchitectural Education, Architectural Design and Building Construction, Sustainable Design, Architectural Theory and Planning Theory, Research Through Design
Will Galloway
Associate Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseUrban Planning, Digital Fabrication, Resilience Theory, Alternative Architecture Practice
Mark Gorgolewski
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseSustainable Building, Circular Economy in Construction, Low Carbon Buildings, Energy Efficiency
Darko Joksimovic
Associate Professor / Department Chair
Areas Of ExpertiseUrban Water Systems Analyses, Green Infrastructure Monitoring and Modelling, Decision Support, Hydroinformatics
George Thomas Kapelos
Professor and Former Department Chair
Areas Of ExpertisePublic Space, Healthy Environments, Building Community, Design Equity, Architectural Pedagogy, and Modernism, Media and National Identity.
June Diana Komisar
Professor / Associate Chair, Undergraduate Student Affairs
Areas Of ExpertiseArchitectural Design, History and Theory of Architecture, Designing for Urban Agriculture
Mohamed Lachemi
Professor, President and Vice-Chancellor
Lisa Landrum
Department Chair of Architectural Science / Professor / Architect
Areas Of ExpertiseArchitectural Design, Imagination, Agency, Performing Arts, History & Theory, Poetics & Ethics, Creative & Critical Thinking, Pedagogy, Architectures of Peace and Justice
Songnian Li
Professor / Associate Chair, Graduate Studies (Civil Engineering)
Areas Of ExpertiseGeocollaboration and Group Decision Support, Big Geospatial Data Analytics, Geospatial Web and Web Services, Human Mobility, Spatio-Temporal Dynamics, Solar Energy Potential Mapping, Digital Twins
James Li
Professor
Jinyuan Liu
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseGeotechnical, Piles, Urban Tunnelling, Deep Excavation, Soil Mixing, Soil Nailing
Jenn McArthur
Professor / Graduate Program Director, Project Management in the Built Environment
Areas Of ExpertiseSmart & Sustainable Buildings, Cognitive Digital Twins, Smart and Ongoing Commissioning, Energy-Efficiency, Fault Detection & Diagnosis, Building Decarbonization, and Developing Tools to Inform Urban Decarbonization Policy
Bhagwant Persaud
Professor, Transportation Engineering
Areas Of ExpertiseRoad Safety, Traffic Injury Prevention, Highway Design, Traffic Operations and Management, Traffic Simulation, Traffic Crash Data, Surrogate Measures of Safety
Terri Peters
Associate Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseArchitecture, Building Performance Evaluation, Design for Daylight, Environmental Simulation, Healthy Housing, Pedagogy, Sustainable Design
S. Madeh Piryonesi
Assistant Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseData analytics; Infrastructure asset management; Construction management; Climate resilient infrastructure; BIM; Pavement; Optimization
Marco L. Polo
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseCanadian Architecture; History and Theory; Regionalism; Sustainable Design; Equity, Inclusivity and Quality in the Built Environment
Russell Richman
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseBuilding Science, Energy Consumption & Conservation in Buildings, Material Performance, Large Building Airtightness Testing, Archetype Based Modelling
Khaled Sennah
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseBridge Design, Evaluation, and Rehabilitation; Advanced Composite Materials in Bridges and Structures; Structural dynamics; Steel, Concrete, and Timber Design, Experimental Testing, Product Certification, Ultra-high-performance Concrete and Fiber-reinforced Concrete.
Mohamad T. Shahab
Assistant Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseControl Theory, Robotics, Adaptive Control, Autonomy, Control & Optimization, Autonomous Systems
Ahmed Shaker
Professor, Geomatics Engineering / Associate Dean, FEAS International / Director, Remote Sensing Innovation Lab (RSIL)
Areas Of ExpertiseRemote Sensing, Image Processing, LiDAR, Sensor and Data Integration, Feature Extraction
Medhat Shehata
Professor, Associate Dean, Teaching and Outreach
Helen Stopps
Assistant Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseBuilding Science; Smart Sensing and Diagnostics; Indoor Air Quality; Drone Photogrammetry and Digital Mapping Applications; Community-led housing; Climate Resilience; AI and Data Tools; Participatory and Justice-based Methods
Amirnaser Yazdani
Department Chair
Arnold Yuan
Professor
Areas Of ExpertiseInfrastructure Asset Management; Engineering Risk and Reliability; Public-Private Partnerships; Civil Systems Engineering
