Wael Alhajyaseen works currently at Faculty at the Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center in the College of Engineering, Qatar University. He received the M.S. degree in transportation engineering from the University of Jordan in 2005 and the Doctor of Engineering degree in civil engineering from Nagoya University in 2010. He received several regional and international awards for his contribution in the field of Traffic Engineering such as Yasoshima Yoshinosuke Prize provided by the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies. He is specialized in traffic engineering, urban traffic control and operation, traffic safety (human factors, crash data, and causality, driving simulation), road user behavior analysis (motorized & non-motorized), and intelligent transportation systems.