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Associate Professor
Director of STL & CATS
• Associate Professor • Director of Smart Transportation Lab• Director of Center for Applied Transportation Sciences (CATS)• Licensed P.E. in Arizona and Missouri
Assistant Research Professor
CATS Center Manger
Sep. 2022 - Present
• Highway Traffic Analysis• Traffic Safety
CATS IT Manager
July 2023 - Present
• System Architecture Optimization• Database Optimization & Management• Data Solution Development• Software Development• People Management
Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. Student
Fall 2021-Present
• Traffic Safety
Fall 2023 - Present
• Website administrator • Data Mining
M.S. Student
• Data Collection
Postdoctoral Researcher
May 2024 - Present
Graduate Research Assistant& Lab Manager
• Traffic Modeling
Summer 2021 - Present
• Traffic Safety• Traffic Operations
M.E. Student
Undergraduate Research Assistant
B.S. Student
• Data Collection• Research Assistance
Visiting Scholar
Research Specialist
Sep. 2023 - Present
Fall 2019 - Present
• Traffic Data Analytics
Student Worker
Spring 2024 - Present
• Data collection
• Data Collection• Website Assistance
Summer 2022 - Present
Spring 2023 - Present
Fall 2023
Spring 2019 - Summer 2023
• Traffic Data Analytics• Web Application Development• Machine Learning
Sep. 2021 - Aug. 2023
Assistant CATS Center Manager
• Traffic Signal Systems• Transportation Data Analytics• Traffic Control and Estimation
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
Fall 2018 - Fall 2022
• Traffic Data Analytics• Freeway Operations
Lab Trainee
Fall 2019 - Summer 2022
• Traffic data collection• Traffic data analytics
Spring 2022
• Data collection and analysis
Spring 2019 - Spring 2022
• Literature Review Support
Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
• Dissertation Topic TBD• Transferred to Alyssa Ryan in Fall 2021
Spring 2020 - Spring 2021
• Traffic Data Analytics• Traffic data collection
Fall 2019 - Fall 2020
• Data-Driven Analytics
Oct. 2019 - Oct. 2020
Ph.D. Student - Southwest Jiaotong University, China
• Public Transit Planning• Traffic Simulation
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019
• Probe Vehicle GPS Data Driven Research
Fall 2019
Aug. 2018 - July 2019
M.S. Student - Tongji University, China
• Pedestrian Delay Study
Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
• Traffic Data Collection Logistics• Traffic Data Processing
Spring 2018
Spring 2017 - Fall 2017
• Bluetooth Devices• Data Collection
Fall 2016 - Fall 2017
Ph.D. Student - Southeast University, China
• O/D Estimation/Traffic Simulation
High School Trainee
Spring 2017
High School Student
• Training for Traffic Data Analytics• Home school: Basis High School
Fall 2015 - Summer 2017
Spring 2016 - Spring 2017
• Bluetooth Project• GPS Data Collection for Signal Retiming
Summer 2015 - Fall 2016
• Dissertation: Comparative Analysis of Multiple Data Sources for Travel Time and Delay Measurement
Spring 2016 - Fall 2016
• New Traffic Data Collection Methods
Spring 2016
B.S. Student - Federal University of Triangulo Mineiro, Minas Gerais, Brazil
• Pedestrian and Bikes
Graduate RA & TA
Fall 2014 - Fall 2015
Spring 2014 - Summer 2014
• Traffic Crash Data Analysis
Summer 2014 - Fall 2014
Ph.D. Student - Iran University of Science and Technology
Aug. 2023 - Jan. 2024
• Computer Vision• Transportation Sensing• Big Data Analytics• Smart Cities• Autonomous Vehicles
Fall 2020 - Summer 2023
• Traffic Simulation• Proactive Traffic Demand Management
Spring 2023
Aug. 2021 - Aug. 2022
Center Manager
• Traffic Safety• Traffic Operation
Summer 2021 - Summer 2022
• Research website development
Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
• Data Collection • Website Administrator• Project Marketing Support
Post-doctoral Researcher
June 2021 - March 2022
• Sustainable Transportation• Data Analytics
Lab Trainee & Teacher Assistant
Summer 2021 - Fall 2021
• Traffic Data Collection
Fall 2019 - Spring 2021
• Traffic data collection
Aug. 2019 - Oct. 2020
• Traffic SafetyData Analysis• Traffic Operations
Sep. 2018 - Mar. 2020
• Hybrid-Data Approach for Estimating Trip Purposes• Ramp Queue Length Estimation
Spring 2019 - Fall 2019
• CE 363 Online Course Develpment• Advanced Traffic Management Systems Evaluation
Fall 2014 - Fall 2019
• Dissertation: Data-Driven Safety Approaches for Transportation Operations and Planning
Fall 2016 - Spring 2018
• Traffic Safety• Performance Measurement
• Video Sensor Data Analysis• Data Collection Coordination
Aug. 2017 - Feb. 2018
• Public Transit
Summer 2017 - Fall 2017
M.S. Student - Wuhan Institute of Technology, China
• Computer Vision
• Big Freeway Data• Big Traffic Data
M.E. Student (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
• Bluetooth travel time software development
Jan. 2017 - Aug. 2017
• Dissertation: Estimating Freeway Travel Time Reliability for Traffic Operations and Planning• Traffic Operation Planning
Fall 2014 - Spring 2016
• ITS and Traffic Signal Systems Research
Undergraduate RA & TA
Visiting Student
Fall 2016
• Bluetooth Data Collection• Traffic Signal Project Support
• Bluetooth Research• Discontinued Spring 2016
Summer 2015
• Traffic Engineering Training
Undergraduate Research Assistant)
• Transportation web system development research
Fall 2013 - Spring 2014
• Website administration• Lab Design and Construction • Bluetooth traffic detection project research
