I am currently serving as the department chair of the college of Civil Engineering at the University of Kentucky. I started my career at the University of Nevada Las Vegas where I served as both a Professor and the Assistant Director of the Center for Transportation Research. I then moved to Iowa State University and served as a Professor of Civil Engineering and the Associate Director of the Center for Transportation Research and Education (now Institute for Transportation). My research areas include Highway Safety, Information Systems, Planning Models, Railroads, and Transportation Management.

In my spare time, I like to camp and play basketball.

My main research efforts focus on roadway geometric design and safety, with extensive work on attempting to identify areas where design can be improved to enhance roadway safety. My most recent work included the development of a new functional classification system to be used in the upcoming edition of the Green Book and the development of guidelines on the selection of left-turn phasing at signalized intersections. I am currently collaborating with colleagues in Italy to develop a bicycle app that would allow for rating the safety of a route, which is based on data collected using an instrumented bicycle.

My main activities are trekking and traveling to exotic places where I enjoy interesting and new foods! I also like to cook..

My recent research involves integrating data from multiple sources to enhance operation, planning, and modeling of transportation system. Currently, I'm leading a study to facilitate incorporating travel time reliability into agency decision-making process.

When not in the office, I enjoy movies, reading, and being a soccer mom.

My recent research investigates the application of continuously collected transportation data to the systematic retrospective evaluation of transportation projects. This research provides a platform from which to better evaluate the accuracy of travel models in forecasting the effects of real-world transportation projects.

Outside of work I enjoy playing with sticks and building forts with my two boys and our Bernese Mountain Dog. On Fridays, I get lunch with the PI for the Erhardt Isotope Geochemistry Lab.

I recently graduated from the University of Kentucky and received my PhD degree in Transportation Engineering. My dissertation focuses on how day-to-day travel time variation affects travelers’ route choice decisions and incorporating such consideration into path finding and traffic assignment models. Right now I’m working at the Kentucky Transportation Center as a post-doctoral researcher. I have been a major team member on several research projects involving multi-source data integration and analysis, performance measurement and monitoring, reliability model development, calibration and evaluation, and transportation data visualization.

In my spare time, I enjoy running, cooking, watching movies, and taking photographs.

I am currently working on assessing the impact of Transportation Network Companies on the existing traffic ecosystem. By studying their assimilation in major metropolitan cities, I aim to analyze their contribution to the changes in travel demand, travel time reliability, and mode choice behaviors. Before pursuing my graduate studies, I worked as a software engineer at Publicis.Sapient. A minor in applied statistics allows me to combine my passion, statistics with my background: transportation to answer the questions that afflict transportation policy makers.

Outside of work, I am usually dabbling with cooking exotic food or contributing to global political commentary blogs!

Transporation affects nearly every aspect of peoples lives in one way or another. That and the growth of big data in recent years, with all the excitement and opportunities it brings to the field, are what lead to me choosing Transportation Engineering. My current research is looking into what drives transit ridership and how Transportation Network Companies, such as Uber and Lyft, affect a city and its transit system. In particular, I am focusing on the effect that Uber and Lyft has on MUNI bus ridership in San Francisco, California.

When I am not saving the world one model at a time, I am usually helping my family on our farm, golfing, listening to the Talking Headways and Freakonomics Radio podcasts, or watching the Reds and Bengals post mediocre seasons.

My areas of interest are crash analysis, traffic safety, highway geometric design, traffic simulation and modelling. My master's research focused on the safety implications of different left-turn phasing at signalized intersections. I am planning to pursue a career in research and academia.

The two other things which I love are music and cooking. On weekends, I cook spicy Indian food for my friends!

I’m originally from East Kentucky and after graduating with a B.S. in Mining Engineering as well as an MBA spent around a year and a half in the Coal industry. Given the current economic climate, I felt it better to return to school and pursue my M.S. in Civil Engineering with a focus in Transportation. Transportation is a dynamic field with many advancements coming in the near future which is the reason why I wanted to pursue the field. Currently, my research revolves around data applications for probe GPS speed data using Python and other tools. More specifically, my thesis involves using these GPS speed data to develop a data-driven approach to accurately identify the effects of congestion in work zones.

In my spare time, I enjoy playing golf as well as racing anything I can get my hands on. As of right now, I’m racing go-karts at the local track here in Lexington. Follow my progress here. My racer name is Not Captain Slow.

I did my B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. I majored in Structural Engineering back home; magnificent bridges attracted me so. A year at the World Bank working for the Transportation Unit GT106 made me realize that I can contribute more for my country with advanced knowledge in Transportation Engineering so I decided to switch. I am currently working on assessing traffic forecast accuracy: the magnitude and the sources of error.

I am a quiet man, but you should come to the CATSlab and ask me about high-fantasy books.

My undergraduate research consisted of two projects including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the annual Seatbelt survey.  The conducted research for the ADA was to ensure that sidewalks and curb ramps adequately meet ADA standards.  The Seatbelt study was a survey to see whether drivers or passengers were wearing seatbelts across the state.

In my free time, I enjoy staying active with running, cycling, playing hockey and Ultimate Frisbee, and doing bar trivia with my friends.

For the past year I’ve worked for the Kentucky Transportation Center as a student researcher and participated in projects such as the annual Safety Belt Survey, iRAP (International Road Assessment Program), and recently began work on a project analyzing the effects of Socio- Economic and Demographic data on crash rates in Kentucky.

In my spare time I’m hiking, blogging (about hiking), exploring, singing/songwriting, playing ukulele, dabbling in photography, watching (too much) TV, and generally thinking about the breadth of options life has to offer. Links to my music ventures and my blog can be found below.

I recently completed both a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Civil Engineering at the University of Kentucky. As an undergraduate, I researched railroad at-grade highway crossings. As a graduate, my research focused on estimating annual average daily traffic on all local roads in Kentucky. I currently work at the Kentucky Transportation in the Traffic and Safety section where I conduct research pertaining to crash prevention.

Aside from research, I enjoy cooking and baking. I am also an avid gun collector and go target shooting every chance I get.

I graduated from the University of Kentucky with degrees in Chemistry (2015) and Civil Engineering (2017), and currently work at the Kentucky Transportation Center. During school, my primary research focus was on the applicability of the zipper merge, a new merging technique for work zones. My research also includes GIS network routing analysis, geometric design and data management, traffic control methods and roadway chemical treatment evaluations. I served as the President of the student section of the Institute for Transportation Engineers, a group that gets UK transportation students involved with others across the country.

Outside of work, I enjoy hiking, reading, and I like to bake and bring treats into the office. I also run my fashion blog, which includes tips for dressing professionally on a budget. 

Most of my research in the past 18 years has focused on highway safety, crash analysis, roadway asset inventory and management, and human factors. In addition to engineering-related research, I have spent a lot of my career focused on database design and software development. I also started the transportation software company Pin3, LLC. The flagship software we provide is SignProx. This software is used by county, city, and state agencies to locate and track highway signs. I am a registered professional engineer in the state of Kentucky and a registered GIS professional (GISP) in the United States.

I live in Lexington, Kentucky with my wife, daughter, and son. When I am not being an engineer, I like to play loud music! I play bass in a TOOL tribute band and drums in a Pearl Jam tribute band. Prior to that, I was in an original band called Orangewhip.