Two researchers within the UBC Okanagan School of Engineering (SoE) have been awarded UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowships. These awards enable faculty to pursue full-time research during a recognized study leave.
Dr. Anas Chaaban and Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi are among the 2025 recipients—ten in all across UBC—of the prestigious fellowships announced today by the Office of the VP Research and Innovation (VPRI) in Vancouver.
“Congratulations to Dr. Anas Chaaban and Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi on this significant and well-deserved recognition. Your exemplary work lifts up our School and UBCO. Kudos to and your teams for driving innovation and making a true impact in your fields and in the world around us,” said Dr. Will Hughes, Director, School of Engineering.
Dr. Anas Chaaban
Dr. Anas Chaaban, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, conducts research at the interface between communications engineering and information theory, with applications in wireless communications, sensing, and related applications.
He leads the Communication Theory Lab at UBCO, which is focused on Intelligent surfaces for wireless communications (RIS, SIM); communications and sensing; network information theory; coding theory and applications; and machine learning in communications.
“This award is a reflection of UBC’s commitment to focusing on people and impactful research,” said Dr. Chaaban. “It recognizes the excellent work of my team and collaborators, to whom I owe this recognition. It will allow me to explore new collaborations for further strengthening the research potential and impact of UBC’s Okanagan Campus.”
Read more about Dr. Chaaban.
Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi
Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at UBC Okanagan.
Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering whose research area is transportation demand modelling. He develops theory- and data-driven methods to understand travel behaviour, in addition to agent-based microsimulation techniques to test alternative transportation and land use policies, and infrastructure investment decisions.
At UBCO, he is the director of the UBC integrated Transportation Research (UiTR) laboratory. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of Climate Mobility Research (CliMR) Network—a group of multi-disciplinary researchers from both UBC campuses and community partners across British Columbia, who focuses on generating data, models and tools to decarbonize the transportation sector. He also leads the Climate Action Hub for Community-based Computational Research—a multi-disciplinary research cluster to tackle climate mitigation and adaptation challenges.
“I am very thankful for this recognition and proud of the hard work that made this possible,” said Dr. Mahmudur Fatmi. “I am grateful to my students, collaborators, external partners, and SoE for their support. This Fellowship will support innovation in developing statistical and microsimulation methodology to advance travel modelling paradigm through international and local collaborations.”
Read more about Dr. Fatmi.