Mohamed Zaki

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Concordia University (2008) 
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Concordia University (2003)
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Ain Shams University (2000)


Dr. Mohamed Zaki is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western University. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor in the Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering Department at the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Florida until June 2022. Earlier, at UCF, Dr. Zaki was also the Student Coordinator for the newly developed Master's program in Smart Cities and was a Research Associate at the Bureau of Intelligent Transportation Systems and Freight Security at the University of British Columbia (UBC).

He received his Doctoral degree in Computer Engineering at Concordia University, Montreal, in 2008. Dr. Zaki pursues multidisciplinary research that advances smart mobility through a fundamental understanding of road culture with a specific emphasis on active mobility and traffic safety. His research bridges transportation engineering, mathematical reasoning, and computer engineering. He has published more than 50 peer-review journal papers and was awarded the 2021 Thomas C. Keefer Medal from the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering.

He is a Handling Editor for the Transportation Research Record Journal, an IEEE member, and serves on the Transportation Research Board AED50 Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications, and the American Society of Civil Engineers Transportation Safety Committee.