Dr. Alecsandru joined the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2006. Prior to earning his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Louisiana State University in 2003 and 2006, respectively, he worked as an Assistant Lecturer in the Transportation Faculty at the Polytechnic University of Bucharest for four years, where he also earned his B.Eng. degree.

Research interests

• Traffic Simulation
• Traffic Operations and Control
• Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Soft Computing in Transportation Applications
• Sustainable Transportation Development
• Safety and Operations of Non-Motorized Road Users

Projects

• Cell-Transmission Based Model for Signalized Intersections
  
• Modeling Framework for Large-Scale Traffic Networks
  
• Montreal Public Transit System - Metro
  
• MTQ projects
  

Academic experience

• 2006 - present Transportation Professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
• 2001 - 2006 Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
• 1997 - 2001 Assistant Lecturer, Transportation Department, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania

Education

• 2006 PhD Civil Engineering Louisiana StateUniversity, Baton Rouge, LA
• 2003 MS Civil Engineering Louisiana StateUniversity, Baton Rouge, LA
• 1998 MS Telematics for Transportation Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania
• 1997 BS Automatics for Railroad Transportation Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania