Michael Levin - My bio

Bio

Michael W. Levin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He became licensed as a Professional Engineer in July 2025. Dr. Levin is on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. His work has been published in top journals including Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and has received several awards, including the 2025 Alfred Noble Prize, the 2019 Ryuichi Kitamura Award, and the 2016 Milton Pikarsky Award. His research focuses on traffic flow and network modeling of connected autonomous vehicles and intelligent transportation systems.

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I grew up in Houston, TX and I enrolled in the Turing Scholars Computer Science honors program at The University of Texas at Austin in 2009. In October of 2009, I was hired by Travis Waller to develop software implementations of new convergence algorithms for dynamic traffic assignment, and I continued working with Natalia Ruiz-Juri and Jen Duthie at the Center for Transportation Studies until I finished my degree in 2013. Simultaneously, I enrolled in the UTeach program, culminating in a semester student teaching 9th grade algebra at Austin High School, and educator certification for math grades 8-12. Afterwards, I immediately started a MS/PhD in Civil Engineering with Steve Boyles (who replaced Travis after he moved to UNSW) and started researching automated vehicles. After I finished my PhD in 2017, I joined the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota. In July 2022, I took a leave of absence to work at Amazon in Arun Jotshi's Topology Science team, which was part of Supply Chain Optimization Technologies, where I worked on facility location for inbound crossdocks and fulfillment centers. I returned to teaching at the University of Minnesota in July 2023.

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