Umair Durrani
Data Scientist
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolUmair Durrani is a data scientist with 11 years of experience bridging transportation engineering research and applied analytics in industry and academia. He holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and has led driving-simulator experiments, calibrated microsimulation models, and built R Shiny apps to visualize complex driver-behavior datasets. As an instructor and mentor, he has trained students and colleagues in R, statistical methods, and traffic systems while streamlining data extraction workflows to save substantial time. Currently at Presage Group Inc., he applies his research-honed rigor to commercial data problems, combining domain expertise in transportation with practical data-science delivery. Based in Canada, he maintains an active professional presence and emphasizes reproducible, open approaches to analysis that reduce reliance on proprietary tools.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Transportation Engineering, 89%, Bachelor of Science, Transportation Engineering, 89% at University of Engineering and Technology, LahoreDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Civil Engineering, 91%, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Civil Engineering, 91% at University of Windsor
English, Urdu
Github Skills (99)
traffic10
simulation10
transport10
latex9
sumo9
eclipse9
traffic-simulation9
django8
markdown8
portable8
sentry8
shiny-apps8
python8
pandoc8
r-shinylive8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
durraniu/carfollowingmodels
Apr 2021 - May 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
durraniu/equipmentValuation
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:13 reviews, 19 PRs, 21 pushes in 16 days
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