Mohammad Elayan

Experience

A decade of transportation engineering practice in the MENA region, now paired with graduate research and teaching at UNL.

§01 · Positions

Roles

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lincoln, NE, USA

Graduate Research Assistant · 2023 to present Graduate Teaching Assistant · 2024 to present

Member of Dr. Wissam Kontar's research team at the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department and Nebraska Transportation Center, focusing on traffic agent heterogeneity and automated vehicle behavior control. As a teaching assistant, supports CIVE 202, Civil Engineering Analysis II, a project-based programming course, and CIVE 361, Principles of Transportation Engineering, covering highway design, traffic operations, and planning.

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TrafQuest

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Senior Transportation Engineer · 2019 to 2023 Transportation Engineer · 2013 to 2019

Led over 100 projects across the UAE and MENA region, including transportation master plans, traffic impact studies, and multimodal integration initiatives. Work spanned demand forecasting, traffic operations analysis, multimodal connectivity evaluation, microsimulation, safety analysis, geometric design, and technical reporting, serving as project manager for most of these efforts.

Project CategoryTotalEngineerManager
Transportation Master Plan20128
Traffic Impact Study642440
Transportation Integration Study11110
Strategic Freight Transport Study770
Parking Study312
Traffic Management Plan312
Evacuation Plan101
Total1094663
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Jordan University of Science & Technology

Irbid, Jordan

Graduate Research Assistant · 2011 to 2013 Graduate Teaching Assistant · 2012 to 2013

Research work focused on data collection, experiments, statistical analyses, and technical writing in traffic operations optimization, highway material performance, and waste management. As a teaching assistant, supported courses and labs including Surveying, Highway Materials, and Engineering Statics.

§02 · Grants & Fellowships

Grants, Fellowships & Awards

2025 · National Science Foundation

NSF National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Grant

"Consensus-Seeking Autonomous Agents in Complex Cyber-Physical Transportation Systems" (Award No. NAIRR250132). Role: Researcher.

2025, 2026

UNL College of Engineering Professional Development Fellowship

2025, 2026

Patrick T. McCoy Fund for Engineering Excellence

2024, 2025, 2026

MATC & NTC Travel Fund Scholarship

§03 · Mentorship

Undergraduate Research Mentorship

Jun to Aug 2026 · NSF REU Program, UNL

Grace Gabrys

Supervised research on the geospatial indexing of pharmaceutical deserts in Nebraska and optimization-based analysis of conventional and autonomous delivery options.

Jun to Aug 2025 · NSF REU Program, UNL

Mawunyo Tchamdja

Supervised research on autonomous electric mobility systems in rural Nebraska.

§04 · Toolkit

Software & Programming

Python Julia R SPSS SAS SUMO VISSIM VISUM Synchro SIDRA HCS ArcGIS QGIS GeoDa LaTeX

§05 · Connect

melayan2@nebraska.edu