Rate My Professor Shimul Haque

Professor Shimul Haque serves as Head of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Transportation Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at Queensland University of Technology. He earned his PhD from the National University of Singapore (2005-2009), and his undergraduate qualifications from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, receiving the Khaleque and Bari Gold Medal (2003), Dean’s List Merit Scholarship (2003-2005), and Technical Scholarship (2000-2005). From 2009 to 2011, he was Research Associate at the National University of Singapore, joining QUT as Lecturer in 2011 and progressing to Professor and Head of School. Accredited as a road safety auditor by the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia (2010) and Land Transport Authority of Singapore (2010), he delivers professional training in road safety audit, crash location treatment, and sustainable rural road safety, including workshops in developing countries.

Professor Haque specializes in road safety engineering through econometrics and AI applications in transportation engineering and traffic safety. His interests encompass traffic conflict analysis, connected and automated vehicles, human factors and driving behaviour, vulnerable road users, black spot identification, travel behaviour, and driving simulator studies. He has led more than 30 research projects, securing about $3 million in funding from the Australian Research Council, governments, and industry. Author of over 200 peer-reviewed articles with more than 10,000 citations, his publications appear in premier journals like Accident Analysis & Prevention, Transportation Research Part C, and Analytic Methods in Accident Research. Select publications include "Severity of driver injury and vehicle damage in traffic crashes at intersections: a Bayesian hierarchical analysis" (2008), "Understanding the impacts of mobile phone distraction on driving performance: a systematic review" (2016), and "A systematic mapping review of surrogate safety assessment using traffic conflict techniques" (2021). He has garnered awards such as the David A. Hensher Prize (2024 ATRF), Best Paper at 2024 ARSC, and TRB Outstanding Paper (2022, 2023). Holding editorial roles as Editor-in-Chief of Analytic Methods in Accident Research (2025-present), Associate Editor for Accident Analysis & Prevention and ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering Part A, and committee positions with TRB and Queensland Road Safety Advisory Group, he co-founded Advanced Mobility Analytics Group for AI-based transport analytics.