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Dominique Lord
BornSeptember, 1969
St-Lambert, Canada
NationalityCanadian/American
Alma materUniversity of Toronto (Ph.D.)
TitleProfessor, Texas A&M University

Dominique Lord is a world-renowned French Canadian/American scientist/engineer who is primarily known for his research work in highway safety and engineering. He is currently a Professor and holder of the A.P. and Florence Wiley Faculty Fellowship in the Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Texas A&M University.

Early Life and Education

Dominique was born in September 1969 and raised in St-Lambert[1], Quebec, a suburb of Montreal. He is the son of a civil/municipal engineer and a registered nurse. In high school, he attended Collège Charles-Lemoyne and then Cégep Edouard-Montpetit, focusing on STEM subjects. He graduated in Civil Engineering from McGill University in 1992 and went on to complete his M.A.Sc. (1994) and Ph.D. (2000) in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto. He conducted his Ph.D. research under the guidance of Dr. Ezra Hauer[2], a world leader in highway safety research, and Dr. Bhagwant Persaud[3], a Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University).

Career

Academic Positions

Dominique is a Professor and holder of the A.P. and Florence Wiley Faculty Fellowship in the Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Texas A&M University [4]. He joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2004, following a three-year tenure as an Associate Research Scientist with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. In 2001, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Toronto Metropolitan University. Since 2008, he has been an Associate Member of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT) at the University of Montreal.

Research Work

Dominique conducts fundamental work in highway safety. He is known to have developed the theory for characterizing the crash process from the mathematical perspective[5] and detailing the negative effects related to using data characterized by small sample sizes and low sample mean on modeling crash data with the negative binomial[6] model, the Poisson-lognormal model[7], and several crash-severity models[8]. He also advanced the knowledge in quantifying the influences of site selection and regression-to-the-mean (RTM) biases when conducting before-after studies[9]. His team has developed the negative binomial-Lindley (NB-L) model[10] for analyzing crash or any other types of data characterized with excess zero observations. Along with Dr. Soheil Sohrabi, he developed the basic framework for identifying the safest paths in route planning applications for smart phones[11] [12] [13]. A patent application is currently under review [14]. He was the first researcher to introduce the Conway Maxwell Poisson (COM-Poisson), negative binomial generalized exponential (NB-GE), Support Vector Machine, and Bayesian Neural Networks among others to the highway safety community. He has published more than 160 papers in peer-reviewed journals. His Google Scholar citation stands at 17,000+ with an h-index=60[15] (as of April 2024).

Academic Recognitions

Dominique has been identified as the researcher who had the greatest impact in highway safety research[16], ranked among the top 5 most cited authors in the Journal Accident Analysis and Prevention[17], and ranked in the top 5 in accident analysis in the world according to ScholarGPS[18]. He has also been listed in the top 1% scholars in the world for the last five years[19][20][21][22][23]. Over the last 25 years, he has received numerous prestigious awards, including the CUTC-ARTBA New Faculty Award, the D. Grant Mickle Award (twice), the ITE D.B. Fambro Award (co-wrote paper with Dr. Soheil Sohrabi), the New Investigator Award for Non-intentional Injuries by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and several best papers awards at the Annual Meetings of the Transportation Research Board, a branch of the National Academy of the Sciences (NAS).

Given his academic recognitions, Dominique is often sought by the media to provide information about his work and important issues in highway safety. In 2014, he conducted a study on the safety effects of red-light cameras in Chicago on behalf of the Chicago Tribune[24] [25] [26]. He is a frequent contributor to Toronto Star [27] , Radio Health Journal [28], and print/radio media [29] [30] [31].

Books

  • Lord, D., Qin, X., and Geedipally, S.R. (2021). Highway Safety Analytics and Modeling. 1st Ed. Elsevier Publishing ltd., Amsterdam, NL. (©2021)
  • Lord, D. and S. Washington (Eds.) (2018). Safe Mobility: Challenges, Methodology and Solutions. Volume 11 of Transport and Sustainability, Emerald Publishing Ltd, Bingley, UK. (©2018)
  • Instruction Manual for CrimeStat IV: A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations, Version 4.0 (2013). Participated in the writing of several chapters. (©2013)

Selected and most cited publications

Personal Life

Dominique is married to Leah Silverman, the daughter of Peter Silverman, and they have a son named Javier. He was a schoolmate (1 year apart) of Canadian Astronaut David Saint-Jacques in grade school.

References

  1. ^ "Saint-Lambert, Montérégie - Wikipedia".
  2. ^ "Hauer Re-defining Cause Will Lead to Better Crash Prevention - University of Toronto Transportation Research Institute".
  3. ^ "Bhagwant Persaud - Toronto Metropolitan University".
  4. ^ "Faculty Profile of Dr. Lord".
  5. ^ "Characterizing the Crash Process From the Mathematical Perspective".
  6. ^ "Negative Binomial Model for Small Sample Size and Low Sample Mean".
  7. ^ "Poisson-lognormal Model".
  8. ^ "Crash-severity Models".
  9. ^ "Influences of Site Selection and RTM Biases in Before-After Studies".
  10. ^ "Negative Binomial-Lindley Model for Analyzing Crash Data".
  11. ^ "New Texas A&M research could lead to safer routes on navigation apps and tools".
  12. ^ "Texas A&M study finds navigations apps may take you fastest route, not necessarily safest".
  13. ^ "Can We Trust Computers To Drive Our Cars?".
  14. ^ "Method and system of evaluation of navigation safety".
  15. ^ "Google Scholar Citations".
  16. ^ "Impact of Research in Highway Safety".
  17. ^ "Top 5 Most Cited Authors in Accident Analysis and Prevention".
  18. ^ "Top 5 in Accident Analysis - ScholarGPS".
  19. ^ "Top 1% Scholars in the World".
  20. ^ "Top 1% Scholars - Continued Recognition".
  21. ^ "Top 1% Scholars - Annual Listing".
  22. ^ "Top Scholars Recognition".
  23. ^ "Continued Recognition in Top 1% Scholars".
  24. ^ "Chicago red light cameras provide few safety benefits".
  25. ^ "Radar guns and cameras don't stop accidents, huh?".
  26. ^ "Would red-light cameras help make Milwaukee's streets safer? The evidence suggests they would, but there are caveats".
  27. ^ "AShould speed limits be lowered to save lives? Not necessarily".
  28. ^ "Can We Trust Computers To Drive Our Cars?".
  29. ^ "A street paved with gold".
  30. ^ "Speed cameras safer for officers at intersections, former Mountie says".
  31. ^ "Greater Long Island: This might be the most dangerous north-south highway on Long Island".
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