Muhammad Usman is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Ontario Research Fund – Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Urban Mobility (ORF–ISSUM) at York University. He received his M.Sc. (2016) and Ph.D. (2020) degree in Computer Science from York University. His research interests include crowd simulation, human-building interaction, virtual environments, crowd behaviours in immersive VR, computer-aided architectural design analysis and optimization, and spatial visualizations.
Dr. Usman is a part of the Ontario Research Fund – Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Urban Mobility (ORF–ISSUM)
Experience
- Sep, 2021–Present: Postdoctoral Researcher , GeoICT/ AUSMLab, York University Canada
- Sep, 2020–Aug, 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University Canada
- Sep, 2014–Sept, 2020: Research Assistant, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University Canada
- 2014–2020: Teaching Assistant, York University
Publications (2)
2025
- Yang, S., Usman, M., Hassan, A., Sohn, G., Faloutsos, P., Haworth, B. (2025). Digital Twin-based Evaluation of Tactical Interventions for High-density Pedestrian Environments. Geo-spatial Information Science, 1–19.
2023
- Hassan, A., Usman, M., Kremer, M., Yang, S., Luubert, M., Faloutsos, P., Hall, G. B., Haworth, B., and Sohn, G. (2023). Digital Twins: Simulating Robot-Human Sidewalk Interactions. International 3D GeoInfo Conference, 645-668.