Dr. Sai Venkata Ramana Ambadipudi completed his M. Sc. in Physics from IIT Kanpur in 2007 after which he worked in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), India, as a scientist till 2019. Currently he is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Traffic Flow Dynamics and Computation group at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He obtained his Ph.D. in 2016 for a part of his work at BARC. He is a theoretical and computational physicist with main interests in statistical physics of equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems. Currently his focus is on modeling collective effects in traffic flow and statistical physics of machine learning.

Dr. Wenqing Li received his B.Sc. degree from the College of Electrical and Information Engineering at Hunan University in 2012, and his Ph.D. degree from the College of Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2018. He is now a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Division of Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi. His research interests include statistical analysis, machine learning algorithms, and their applications in transportation systems and industrial processes.

Bilal Thonnam Thodi received his B.Tech. degree in Civil Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology in 2014 and M.Tech. degree in Transportation Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) in 2017. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Transportation Planning & Engineering at New York University, NY, U.S.A. His research interests include applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to problems in traffic operations.

Yue Wang received her B.Sc. degree from the College of Automation at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2015, and her M.Sc. degree from the College of Control Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University in 2018. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University, NY, U.S.A. Her research interests include adversarial learning and cybersecurity applications in transportation.

Chuhan Yang is a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science. He received his M.Sc. degree in Statistics from Columbia University and his B.Sc. in Mathematics from Wuhan University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at New York University, NY, U.S.A. His current research interests include machine learning, transfer learning and data visualization.

Li Li completed her Ph.D. at New York University (NYU). She finished her Master's and Bachelor's Degrees in Traffic Engineering from Tongji University, China. Her research interests focus on connected vehicles, automated vehicles, electric vehicles, and distributed/real-time control for large scale traffic networks.

DianChao Lin completed his Ph.D. at New York University (NYU). He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Traffic Engineering and Traffic Information Engineering & Control from Tongji University, Shanghai, China, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. His research interests include traffic state estimation, applications of game theory to automated vehicles, and multi-modal traffic flow in urban networks.

Mani completed his BSc. in Civil Engineering from NYU Abu Dhabi in May 2019. His final thesis was on optimizing pedestrian evacuation through reinforcement learning techniques. His other research interests include recommender systems analysis, transport infrastructure modeling, traffic analysis, and control.

Dr. Jérôme Benoit obtained his doctoral degree in theoretical physics. He is currently a Research Scholar with the Ronin Institute. He was a Research Associate in the Traffic Flow Dynamics and Computation group at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He conducts research in mathematical and theoretical physics. His main research interests include Geometrical Topology, Network Theory, and Information Theory.

Deepthi Mary Dilip is an Assistant Professor at BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus. She received her M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees from National Institute of Technology, Calicut and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 2009 and 2015, respectively. She held a Post-Doctoral Associate position with New York University Abu Dhabi prior to joining BITS Pilani. Her research interests include probabilistic modeling of transportation systems and reliability analysis.