He holds a Ph.D. degree in transportation engineering from the University of Central Florida. He is a registered Professional Engineer and a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer in the United States. He has over twenty years of experience in the transportation engineering industry and over ten years of graduate and undergraduate teaching experience in the United States and the Middle East. He has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator for many research projects. The outcomes of these projects include numerous published papers and presentations on a variety of transportation engineering topics.