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Zachary Patterson is a Professor at the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering. Zachary received his PhD from McGill University and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne in Switzerland in the Transport and Mobility Laboratory (TRANSP-OR). He was Assistant and Associate Professor starting in 2010 in the Concordia University department of Geography, Planning & Environment. In 2021 he joined the Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering (CIISE). Professionally he worked as transportation modeler at the Montreal regional public transportation planner, l'Agence metropolitaine de transport. Zachary's research focuses on: the use of emerging technologies in transport-related data collection, computational geospatial data processing, data analysis and inference with statistical and artificial intelligence techniques and discrete choice experiments.
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Workshop 3: Urban Systems Research This in-person workshop at Concordia University was convened to provide general updates and garner feedback on Bridging Divides projects taking under the Place and Infrastructure Theme Group. The workshop included presentations on the following:
Thomas Zhao: VR based neighbourhood preference analysis
Isaac Otchere: Customized Smartphone App for Travel Surveys
Houman Haghi: Choice set generation problem
Lina Waqfi: Migration location choice literature
Samuel Guardino: Multiagent microsimulation of urban systems
Farbod Abbasi: Population synthesis
Tareq Alsaleh: Travel mode shift analysis
Mahan Mollajafari: Travel behaviour analysis using pre-trained ML models
Alemtsehay Subhatu: Ontology for infrastructure needs of migrants
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Subhatu, A. Graph neural networks for intelligent transportation systems: A survey. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(8), 8846-8885. Concordia University Publication 2023-03-20 Chaaben, M., Baghbani, A., Bouguila, N., & Patterson, Z. (2024). Multi-STGAC: A graph attention based model for short-term bus passenger flow forecasting. IEEE. Concordia University Publication 2024-02-13 Patterson, Z.J. (2023). Book review: Climate imperialism in Africa: Critical commentary on the political economy of global climate change regime. Review of African Political Economy, 50(177-178). Concordia University Publication 2023-12-01 Farazmand, S., Narula, R., Patterson, Z., & Bouguila, N. (2024). A variational graph convolution network with normalizing flows for passenger flow prediction. IEEE. Concordia University Publication 2024-01-16 The 4th Workshop on Urban Systems Research TRS3 5.1, TRS3 5.2, TRS3 5.3 Toronto Metropolitan University, Concordia University Conference 2025-10-06 TRS3 5.1, TRS3 5.2, TRS3 5.3 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2025) – Systematic Exploration of Feature Engineering and Machine Learning Algorithms for HVAC Fault Detection Other Concordia University Event 2025-05-26 Other Innovative Approaches to Transportation Data Analysis and Intelligent Mobility Systems TRS3 4.1 Concordia University Grant 2023-04-01 TRS3 4.1 The Residential Location Choice of Immigrants: A Systematic Review and Future Directions TRS3 4.1, TRS3 5.2 Toronto Metropolitan University, Concordia University Publication 2025-10-20 TRS3 4.1, TRS3 5.2 The 8th International Conference on Interdisciplinary Urban Studies TRS3 4.1 Toronto Metropolitan University, Concordia University Conference 2025-09-30 TRS3 4.1 The 13th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods TRS3 5.1 Toronto Metropolitan University, Concordia University Conference 2025-03-30 TRS3 5.1 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Conference 2025-10-12 TRS3 5.2 ISTDM 2025 Conference TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Conference 2025-09-03 TRS3 5.2 TRB 2025 Conference TRS3 5.2 Toronto Metropolitan University, Concordia University Conference 2025-01-05 TRS3 5.2 HEART 2025 Conference TRS3 5.2 Toronto Metropolitan University, Concordia University Conference 2025-06-11 TRS3 5.2 The 13th International Conference on Transport Survey Methods TRS3 5.1 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Conference 2025-03-30 TRS3 5.1 Smartphone Travel Survey-based Adaptive Mode Choice Experiment TRS3 5.1 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-03-30 TRS3 5.1 Enhancing Population Synthesis With Generative Multi-Source Imputation TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-01-05 TRS3 5.2 Toward Realism and Diversity: Addressing Sampling and Structural Zeros in Synthetic Population Generation TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2026-01-11 TRS3 5.2 Llmsurv: A large language model-based framework for competing-risk survival modeling of daily travel-activity behavior TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2026-01-11 TRS3 5.2 Lstm vs. distilbert: A comparative study for 2025 shl recognition challenge TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-10-12 TRS3 5.2 Exploring the potential of large language models in daily travel activity pattern prediction TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-06-10 TRS3 5.2 Daily activity pattern prediction using bidirectional encoder representations from transformers (bert) TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-01-05 TRS3 5.2 A Two-Stage Deep Neural Network Framework for Choice Set Generation and Destination Choice Modeling Using Cross-Attention and ResLogit TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2026-01-11 TRS3 5.2 Reframing Choice Set Formation: An Attention-Enhanced ResLogit Model for Destination Choice TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-09-03 TRS3 5.2 Choice Set Generation in Work Destination Choice Modeling with Variational Autoencoders TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-01-05 TRS3 5.2 TRB 2025 Conference TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Conference 2025-01-05 TRS3 5.2 TRB 2026 Conference TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Conference 2026-01-11 TRS3 5.2 Emerging methods in the collection, processing and analysis of data in transportation planning TRS3 5.2 Concordia University Publication 2026-02-01 TRS3 5.2 TRB 2026 Conference TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Conference 2026-01-11 TRS3 5.2 TRB 2025 Conference TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Conference 2025-01-05 TRS3 5.2 TRB 2026 Conference TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Conference 2026-01-11 TRS3 5.2 Do Perceptions Migrate with Us? An Investigation Using Auto-Generated Travel Scenarios from Semi-Passive Travel Diary Recording TRS3 5.1 Toronto Metropolitan University, Concordia University Publication 2025-03-30 TRS3 5.1 Choice Set Generation in Work Destination Choice Modeling with Variational Autoencoders TRS3 5.2 Concordia University, Toronto Metropolitan University Publication 2025-11-06 TRS3 5.2