Research Interests

• • Big Data Analytics in Transportation: machine learning, artificial intelligence, travel demand and behavior analysis, transportation safety data analysis, discrete choice modeling;

  • Connected, Autonomous, and Electric Vehicles: technologies, transportation, energy use and environmental impact analyses, simulation and modeling, optimization and control;

  • Multimodal Transportation and Shared Mobility: carsharing, bike-sharing, public transit, and non-motorized transportation (bicycle and pedestrian) systems planning and operations, and transportation equity;

  • Traffic System Operation and Control: traffic simulation, operations and control, and active traffic management (variable speed limits and managed lanes); 

  • Transportation System Analysis and Network Modeling: equilibrium-based traffic assignment, network design and highway improvements, travel time reliability, freeway bottleneck identification and mitigation, and congestion pricing; 

  • Operations Research: Nonlinear programming, integer programming, metaheuristics, network optimization, and stochastic optimization; and

  • Computer Software Development using C/C++/Java/SAS/R/Python.

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher von Braun