Mehdi Nourinejad is an Assistant Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of York University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Rotman School of Management for two years. Mehdi’s research focuses on optimal planning and control of transportation systems in smart cities with autonomous vehicles. He is the academic editor of “Journal of Advanced Transportation” and on the editorial board of “Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.”