Wael Alhajyaseen is an Associate Professor at the Qatar Transportation and Traffic Safety Center and the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering in the College of Engineering, Qatar University. He received his M.S. degree in Transportation Engineering from the University of Jordan in 2005 and a Doctorate in civil engineering from Nagoya University in 2010. He is the Chair of the Traffic Safety Analysis and Policy Special Interest Group of the World Conference on Transport Research Society WCTRS. He has received several regional and international awards for his contribution to the field of traffic engineering, such as the Yasoshima Yoshinosuke Prize awarded by the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies in 2009. His research interests include traffic engineering, traffic safety (human factors, crash data and causalities, and driving simulation), road user behavior analysis (motorized and nonmotorized), and intelligent transportation systems.