Founder and Lab Director

Dr. Sk. Md. Mashrur

Transportation engineer, educator, and researcher advancing resilient and sustainable urban mobility at BUET.

Lab Director

Dr. Sk. Md. Mashrur

Assistant Professor of Transportation Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering · Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Dr. Mashrur has served as a full time BUET faculty member since 2016. He completed his PhD in Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto in July 2023 with a dissertation on transit demand resilience. Since September 2023, he has combined graduate supervision and research at BUET with an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship involving the University of Toronto and McMaster University.

His research connects transit analytics, travel behaviour and choice modelling, electrification, accessibility and transport poverty, intelligent transport systems, machine learning, geospatial analysis, and agent based simulation. His work is designed to produce actionable policy insight for data scarce and resource constrained urban transport systems.

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Lab Director

2016Joined BUET faculty

2023PhD, University of Toronto

23Peer reviewed conference presentations

16Published journal articles in the supplied CV

Academic journey

From BUET to Toronto and back

2023 · University of Toronto

PhD in Civil Engineering

Thesis: Multifaceted Investigations on Transit Demand Resilience: A Roadmap for Developing Sustainable Urban Transit Policies

Supervisor: Prof. Khandker Nurul Habib

2018 · BUET

MSc in Civil Engineering, Transportation

Thesis: Modeling Bus Priority with Intermittent Bus Lane for Local Traffic Conditions

Supervisor: Prof. Md. Hadiuzzaman

2016 · BUET

BSc in Civil Engineering

Thesis: Forced Behavior of Non Motorized Vehicles on Road Network Performances: A Micro Simulation Approach

Supervisor: Prof. Md. Shamsul Hoque

Research focus

Movement made more human

Public transit analytics Electric, connected and autonomous vehicles Intelligent transport systems Travel behavioural analysis Accessibility, equity and transport poverty Agent based and microscopic simulation AI, geospatial analysis and safety intelligence

His work includes survey design, choice experiments, survey and big data preparation, strategic urban transportation planning, and operational demand models for congested networks and mixed traffic conditions.

Recognition

Awards and fellowships

2023 to 2026 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
2022 to 2023 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2021 to 2022 Soberman Graduate Student Fellowship
2021 to 2022 CITE Joint Section Student Presentation Competition, second runner up
2020 to 2021 Fortran Traffic Systems Graduate Scholarship
2019 to 2020 Alan Tonks Scholarship in Transportation Engineering
2019 to 2023 University of Toronto Fellowship
2016 to 2017 Best Paper Award, BUET ANWAR ISPAT Civil Engineering Summit
2011 to 2014 BUET Dean's Award and Academic Merit Scholarship

Beyond the classroom

Practice and professional service

Alongside academia, Dr. Mashrur has served as a Junior Consultant with BUET's Bureau of Research, Testing and Consultation since December 2016. His assignments include transport modelling, feasibility studies, connectivity review, and traffic impact assessment for major urban projects in Dhaka and Chattogram.

His current service includes Director of Administration at BAETE within The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh. He reviews for Transportation, Transportation Research Part D, Transport Policy, Travel Behaviour and Society, Case Studies on Transport Policy, and other journals, as well as the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.

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