Bara received the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship

September 15, 2025

The Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST) is a prestigious award that recognizes graduate students in Ontario for outstanding academic achievement and research excellence. For the 2025–2026 academic year, Bara Rababah, a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Laboratory of Innovations in Transportation (LiTrans), has been awarded the QEII-GSST.

Bara’s research focuses on pedestrian–vehicle interactions in immersive virtual reality environments, especially in evaluating safety within mixed traffic conditions involving both human-driven and autonomous vehicles. His work uses advanced data analysis methods including machine learning techniques to study safety indicators such as time-to-collision (TTC), post-encroachment time (PET), waiting time, and headway. His work was recently accepted at the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2025) in Australia.

This recognition highlights Bara’s contributions to advancing research in transportation safety, behavioural modelling, and emerging vehicle technologies, supporting his goals towards shaping safer and smarter urban mobility systems.