Dr. Stephen Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental at the University of Alberta, joining in October 2021. Stephen’s research focuses on the intersection of evacuations, decision-making, and shared mobility and works to create more resilient, environmentally friendly, and equitable transportation systems. His dissertation research developed empirically driven and equitable evacuation and resilience strategies for governmental agencies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. Stephen leads the Resilient and Sustainable Mobility and Evacuation (RESUME) Group and is affiliated with the Centre for Smart Transportation.
Stephen has also conducted research on smart charging programs for electric vehicles, automated vehicle policymaking in the United States, mobility on demand (MOD) ridehailing and microtransit pilots, and scenario planning-based recovery of public transit and shared mobility from COVID-19. He was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow, an Eno Center for Transportation Fellow, and a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellow. Stephen received his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from UC Berkeley in December 2020. He received his M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley (2016) and a B.S. in Civil Engineering with a second major in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University (2015).
Stephen is currently involved with the Transportation Research Board in several capacities. He is the Co-Chair of the Young Member Council - Sustainability and Resilience, Research Coordinator for the Committee on Disaster Response, Emergency Evacuations, and Business Continuity (AMR20), and member of the Committee on Strategic Management (AJE10). Stephen is also a part of the Emergency Management and Evacuation Subgroup and the Human Behavior in Fires Subgroup at the International Association for Fire Safety Science.
Education
Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2020)
- Emphasis in Transportation Engineering; Minors in City and Regional Planning & Econometrics
Dissertaiton: Compliance, Congestion, and Social Equity: Tackling Critical Evacuation Challenges through the Sharing Economy, Joint Choice Modeling, and Regret Minimization; Susan Shaheen and Joan Walker
M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2016)
- Emphasis in Transportation Engineering
B.S. Civil Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (2015)
- Second Major in Sociology
Intersection of evacuations, decision-making, and shared mobility and works to create more resilient, environmentally friendly, and equitable transportation systems.
His dissertation research developed empirically driven and equitable evacuation and resilience strategies for governmental agencies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters
