Azam Khan

Co-Founder & CEO
Trax

Azam Khan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Trax, a cloud-based AI-enabled regulatory platform for the built environment. Trax has over 300 municipal customers across Canada with more than 150 in Ontario alone, representing more than 65% of Ontario’s large municipalities. Prior to Trax, Azam was Director of Complex Systems Research at Autodesk Research leading a team of researchers, software developers, architects, and engineers. His professional experience also includes working as Research Scientist at Alias Systems, and as Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Adobe, and ATI.

Azam received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. He founded the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD) in 2010, has been Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, was the Velux Guest Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and Design, and was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of CIFE at Stanford University, a research center for Virtual Design and Construction. He has co-authored over 80 research papers in modeling and simulation theory and practice, visual analytics, visual cognition, Human Bayesian inference, human-computer interaction, sustainability, sensor networks, and architectural design.