Ifratul Hoque, a 25-year-old from Dhaka, Bangladesh, is beginning his MASc studies at UBC’s Okanagan Campus under the guidance of Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi. He specializes in Civil Engineering with a focus on Transportation. During his undergraduate years at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Ifratul was a founding member of the ITE BUET Student Chapter and served as president of the BUET Innovation and Designing Club. His interests lie in sustainable transportation, zero-emission transportation planning, and data-driven optimization. Over the years, Ifratul has gained experience with VISSIM and ArcGIS, as well as in various programming languages such as Python, R, C++ and MATLAB. In his free time, he enjoys reading, traveling, participating in charity work, and watching movies!
Let’s welcome our newest graduate research assistant in the UBC Integrated Transportation Research (UiTR) lab and wish him success in his new role! 🎉