Resume of Md Shohel Reza Amin, PhD

1. Md. Shohel Reza Amin, PhD
625 Rue Milton, Apartment 804, Montreal, Quebec, CA, H2X 1W7
Tel: (438) 936-4119, (514) 289-2024; E-mail: md_amin@encs.concordia.ca; shohelamin@gmail.com
PERSONAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Dedicated, determined quality-driven, mature and enthusiastic engineer and planner willing to travel and
relocate as necessary.
A positive and productive thinker, utilizing my academic training with hands on experience in transportation
planning, traffic simulation, travel demand modeling and pavement engineering with strong observation and
analytical skills. Team player who also excels as an individual contributor.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
 Transportation interoperability and adaptability analysis,
 Safety Analysis using accident data and conflict analysis,
 Transportation operation and safety analysis for Transportation modes,
 Traffic and transportation simulation, travel demand modeling and transportation planning
 Pavement design and maintenance operations
 Network optimization for route choice algorithm
 Accessibility analysis of public transit
 Geographic Information System (GIS)
 Project planning, scheduling and management
COMPUTER PROFICIENCY
TransCAD, TRANUS, ArcGIS, GeoDa, VISSIM, AutoCAD, Remsoft, SPSS, STATA, WinBUGS, Microsoft
Project, MS Office, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
WORK EXPERIENCES
Transport Consultant (08/2009 –07/2009)
House of Consultants Ltd., Dhaka, Bangladesh
 District Towns Infrastructure Development Project of the Local Government Engineering Department
at Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives, Government of Bangladesh.
 Study transportation planning and policies; chair and conduct public meetings; present periodically the
progresses to Ministry and consulting firm; support and project values compatible with the Ministry
standards; prepare work schedules to meet multiple deadlines and changing priorities, supervise
municipality staff and project team; and write reports for preparing Transportation Master Plan of five
towns in Bangladesh.
Course Instructor (11/2014 – 05/2015)
Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
 Taught courses on Transportation Planning and Design (CIVI 474) and Urban Transportation
Planning (CIVI 6411).
Transportation Engineering Research Assistant (09/2011 – 04/2016)
Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
 Conducted research on pavement design and management system, integration of land use and
transportation modeling, travel demand modeling, and traffic simulation and forecasting.
 Taught courses on Transportation System Analysis, Pavement Design, Highway and Pavement
Design, Civil Engineering Systems and Transportation Engineering.
Assistant Professor and Lecturer (03/2005 – 10/2009)
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 Taught courses on Transportation Planning, Introduction to Structural Engineering, Development
Economics, Project Planning & Evaluation Techniques, Environmental Planning & Management and
Disaster Management Planning.
 Completed five research projects and supervised twenty-two undergraduate theses.

2. Part-time Lecturer (01/09 –08/09)
Department of Architecture, Stamford University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
 Taught course on Project Economics.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 2015
Thesis: Pavement Management Systems: Integration of Transportation Modeling, Land Use, Economy and
Indicators of Development
M. Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET),
Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2009
Thesis: Land Price and Road Infrastructure of Savar Municipality, Dhaka, Bangladesh
B. Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET),
Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 2004
Thesis: Network Analysis of Public Bus Transit of Dhaka City, Bangladesh
Certificate course, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, June 2013
Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Demand and Market Share
VOLUNTEER WORK AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
 Professional Planner registered with Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP) (Membership no. 300)
 Graduate Student Representative, Senate Research Committee (2013-2014), Concordia University
 Councilor, Board of Directors, Canadian Transportation Research Forum (CTRF) 2013-2015.
 Founder President, Montreal Students’ Chapter, CTRF, 2013 – 2014.
 Vice-President, Quebec Student Chapter, Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers (CITE), 2012-
2013.
 Member, Advisory Search Committee for the selection of Academic head of Department of Building,
Civil and Environmental Engineering at Concordia University.
 Member, Department Appraisal Committee and Graduate Curriculum Committee in the Department of
Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering at Concordia University.
 Member of Judicial Committee, Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Student Association
(ECSGA) Election 2014-2015, Concordia University.
 Chair of Organizing Committee - 1st Annual MSC-CTRF conference 2014, CITE – Concordia University
Transportation Engineering Student Conference 2013 and Concordia University Engineering &
Computer Science Graduate Association (ECSGA) Graduate Student Poster Competitions 2012 and
2013.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 Application of Backpropagation Neural Network Dealing with Uncertainties in Pavement Performance
Modelling. International Journal of Pavement Engineering. [GPAV-2014-0172.R1] [Accepted January
29, 2016]
 Thornthwaite Moisture Index Modeling to Estimate the Implication of Climate Change on Pavement
Deterioration. Journal of Transportation Engineering, 2016, 142(4): 04016007.
 Pavement Management with dynamic traffic and ANN: a case study of Montreal. Canadian Journal of
Civil Engineering, 2015, 43(3):241-251.
 Travel demand modeling to simulate traffic loads for pavement deterioration curves: dealing with
aggregate data at urban and regional scales. Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2015, 42(12):
1049–1062.
 The Stochastic Modeling of the Turning Decisions by Left-turning Vehicles at a Signalized Intersection
in a University Campus. S. Kadry and A. El Hami (eds.) Numerical Methods for Multiscale and
Multiphysics in Reliability and Safety, 2015, pp. 707-720. Springer: Switzerland.
 Climate Change Modeling and the Weather-Related Road Accidents. Transportation Research Part
D: Transport and Environment, 2014, 32:171–183.
 Simulating Freight-traffic between Atlantic Canada and Quebec to Support Pavement Management on
New Brunswick’s Regional Highway. Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 2013, 19(3):343-350.