CivMin alumna Sanjana Hossain (CivMin PhD 2T3) was listed as one of U of T Engineering’s 15 Grads to Watch in 2023. This academic year she began a new chapter in her professional life as an assistant professor at Howard University.
Her thesis, under the supervision of Professor Khandker Nurul Habib, investigated the feasibility of synthesizing travel data from multiple sources to generate more comprehensive and representative information to support disaggregate travel demand modelling.
During her PhD, Hossain worked as a data science intern on the Policy, Research & Economics team at Uber Technologies Inc. She was also the recipient of many scholarships, including the Ontario Trillium Scholarship, the Transport Canada Scholarship and the graduate student fellowship from U of T’s School of Cities. In 2021, she was awarded the Jim Davey Award by the Canadian Transportation Research Forum for her paper, which explored the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on bicycle-sharing demand in Toronto.
Hossain reached out to CivMin to reflect on her time at U of T and to share the recent professional update:
I recently joined Howard University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering within the College of Engineering and Architecture. In this role, I will be teaching and conducting research on transportation systems, with a focus on developing advanced models supported by multi-source data fusion to inform evidence-based infrastructure planning and operations. I will also be collaborating with the Research and Education for Promoting Safety (REPS) Tier-1 University Transportation Center and the Howard University Transportation Research Center (HUTRC), working closely with agencies such as the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT).