Alberto Broggi received the Dr.Eng. degree inelectronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information technology from the Universita` di Parma, Parma, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively.

He was an Associate Researcher with the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione from 1994 to 1998, an Associate Professor of artificial intelligence with the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica from 1998 to 2001, and is currently a Full Professor of computer science with the
Universit di Parma. He has authored more than 150 refereed publications in international journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and delivered invited talks at many international conferences. His research interests include camera-based sensing and perception for the navigation of unmanned vehicles. Dr. Broggi was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS from 2004 to 2008, and from 2009 he is serving the IEEE ITS Society as President-Elect. He has been the founding editor of both the ITSC Newsletter and a regular department on ITS for the IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine that he ran since 1999.

Sudarshan S. Chawathe serves as Associate Professor of Computer
Science, and Cooperating Associate Professor of the Climate Change
Institute, at the University of Maine. He received the M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, and the
the B.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the the
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He is the recipient of
the President's Gold Medal from IIT Kanpur and a CAREER award from
National Science Foundation. His research interests include
semi-structured databases, information integration, streaming query
processing, data mining, differencing, change management, XML and the
Web, intelligent transportation systems, service-oriented
architectures, and peer-to-peer systems.

Dr. Chowdhury is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University, USA. He received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of Virginia in 1995, where his research integrated principles from both systems and transportation engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in Ohio, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of ITS, and the Guest Editor for the special 2008 World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems issue of the Journal of ITS. Dr. Chowdhury has also co-authored two textbooks on ITS.

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Dr Hussein Dia specialises in the development of real-time algorithms for traffic management applications, and in traffic simulation and modelling of ITS impacts. In his former role as Director of the ITS Research Laboratory at the University of Queensland, he has provided a broad range of specialist consulting services in ITS, traffic simulation and modelling, problem scoping, expert advice, independent audit and project management.

Hussein has over 26 years of engineering experience in public and private sector organisations both in Australia and overseas. He has in-depth knowledge and understanding of emerging transport technologies and problems facing the transport sector, gained through world-wide interaction with researchers and practitioners. This is demonstrated by his involvement in the development of innovative computer modelling and simulation techniques to solve transport and ITS problems, including adaptive short-term traffic forecasting, automated incident detection, variable speed limits, fuel consumption and pollutant emissions algorithms in addition to models of driver behaviour and route choice under the influence of traffic information. Through his research and consulting work, he has made significant contributions, innovations and extensions to best practices in the areas of ITS and traffic simulation.

Hussein is a Chartered Professional Engineer and is affiliated with a number of professional organisations such as the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE).

• Intelligent Transportation Systems: Transportation and Automotive Safety
• Intelligent Systems and Control
• Artificial Neural Networks with Applications in Complex Networks Modeling, Driver Behavior Modeling, and Automotive Safety
• Vehicle Collision Avoidance, Warning Systems, and Driver Assistance
• Dynamics, Computational Mechanics, and Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis
• Vehicle and Barrier Crashworthines

Dr. Wei (David) Fan is currently serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas at Tyler. Dr. Fan holds a Ph.D. (2004) in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He was a Senior Analytical Optimization Software Developer for the R&D Department at SAS Institute Inc. located in Cary, North Carolina from 2004-2006 prior to joining the UT Tyler Civil Engineering faculty in August, 2006.

Dr. Fan’s primary research interests include transportation network modeling and optimization (such as traffic assignment, network reliability, and optimal pricing), public transportation system design and planning, traffic operations and simulation, signal timing and optimization, operations research, transportation planning and demand forecasting, and pavement database & management information system. He is extremely knowledgeable in the operations research field, including optimization and statistics. He loves mathematical and network programming, stochastic optimization, algorithm & software development, and statistical analysis of transportation data. He has over 15-year experiences with optimization, simulation and computer software development using C/C++, Visual Basic and Java. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions - Intelligent Transportation Systems and also sits on the editorial board of two other prestigious journals. He is a frequent reviewer for more than 12 top-tier transportation journals and an active member of three technical committees of Transportation Research Board. Dr. Fan had authored numerous journals and conference publications and had given many conference and invited presentations of his research results.

Qiang Ji received his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He is also a program director at the National Science Foundation, managing NSF's computer vision and machine learning programs. He has also held teaching and research positions with the Beckman Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, the Dept. of Computer Science at University of Nevada at Reno, and the US Air Force Research Laboratory. Prof. Ji currently serves as the director of the Intelligent Systems Laboratory (ISL) at RPI.

Prof. Ji's research interests are in computer vision and probabilistic machine learning and their applications in various fields. He has published over 150 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.

Professor Lee Der-Horng is an associate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). Professor Lee was graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) with his PhD degree in Civil Engineering in 1996. Prior Professor Lee was recruited to NUS as an Assistant Professor in 1999, he worked in Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the US Department of Energy (DOE) as a Research Fellow from 1996 to 1997 and a Researcher at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) from 1997 to 1999. From 2004 to 2006, Professor Lee served as the Degreed Program Director of The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific (TLI-AP), a collaborative effort between NUS and Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in the areas of global logistics and supply chain management. Professor Lee’s expertise includes Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), airport development and management, container port operations, transportation planning and development, etc. Professor Lee has authored more than 200 referred journal articles, book chapters, books, and conference papers detailing his research activities.

Professor Lee is an editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. He also serves as a member of Editorial Advisory Board for six other international referred journals including Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (Elsevier), Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review (Elsevier), ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Journal of Urban Planning and Development, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (Taylor & Francis), International Journal of ITS Research (published by ITS Japan), and Journal of Remanufacturing (Springer).

Professor Lee is well-known in the international academic community of transportation and logistics. Bilingual in Mandarin and English and familiar with eastern and western cultures, Professor Lee has been frequently consulted by local and international medias, multinational corporations, financial institutions, think tanks, non-government organizations, and government agencies for policy, strategic, technical and managerial matters and issues in the areas of transportation and logistics.

Lefei Li (Member 2006) is an assistant professor in the department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University. He is serving as the co-director of the Tsinghua Operations and Service Research Lab (TOPS). He received his B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2002, M.S. (2004) degree in Industrial Engineering and Ph.D. (2006) degree in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona. Dr. Li joined Tsinghua University in 2006, conducting research in ITS and logistics systems.

Dr. Li’s research focuses on applying system engineering and industrial engineering concepts and techniques to Urban Transportation Systems. His current research interests include Transit Signal Priority System, Transfer Coordination in Public Transportation, and Artificial Transportation System.

After joining Tsinghua University as a faculty member three years ago, Dr. Li has managed or actively participated in several urban transportation and logistics/service network design projects, sponsored by top logistics companies or public agencies in China. His research funding is now at the level of half-million Chinese Yuan.

Dr. Li has published several journal papers and peer-reviewed conference papers, which present his research in transit signal priority, traffic flow forecasting and artificial logistics system for disaster relief.

Dr. Li has been active in IEEE ITS Society conferences, serving as session chair, reviewer, associate editor in MESA, SOLI, IV and ITSC. He was the program co-chair for SOLI’07 in Philadelphia USA and ITSC’08 in Beijing China.

Dr. Li has been actively participating the editorial work of the magazine and transactions. From 2009, he is serving as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He also serves as the guest editor for a special issue of ITS magazine.  

Dr. Lingxi Li received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008.

Since August 2008, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), where he is now an Assistant Professor. Since October 2008, he has also been with the Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI) at IUPUI.

His research interests include modeling, diagnosis, and control of complex systems; fault-tolerant systems; discrete event systems; graph theory; and their applications to intelligent transportation systems, power systems, communication networks, and biological systems.

Dr. Li is currently serving as a reviewer/guest reviewer for a number of international journals and as a program committee member/program co-chair for several international conferences.  

In 2009 Dr. Riad I. Hammoud (with Prof L. B. Wolff) founded a new Springer book series on Augmented Vision & Reality. He holds six patents and had published over 70 referred publications in journals, conferences, books and workshops. He authored four Springer-Verlag edited books: "Augmented Vision Perception In Infrared", "Passive Eye Monitoring", "Face Biometrics for Personal Identification", and "Interactive Video". In 2004 and 2005 he was appointed as guest editor of two special issues of Springer International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), and Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding Journal (CVIU). He is involved in the SPIE Defense and Security Newsroom.

Dr. Riad I. Hammoud is the founder of the IEEE workshop series on vision perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum (IEEE OTCBVS). In 2008, he organized two special tracks of the 2008 SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress and Exhibition, on "Autonomous/Robotics Vehicles" and "Drowsiness and Distraction Monitoring & Measurability". He is been serving on the technical program committee of several journals and conferences including IET ITS, PAMI, IJCV, CVPR and ICCV. He served as chair of the "Non-Visual Imagery" track of IEEE Advanced Video and Signal Surveillance (AVSS 2008). Dr. Riad I. Hammoud was nominated by US government as an outstanding researcher/professor in 2005. In 2009, he was offered an Associate Professor Position at the university of KUSTAR (Abu Dhabi Campus).

Miguel Ángel Sotelo received the Dr. Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1996 from the Technical University of Madrid, the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2001 from the University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain, and the Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the European Business School in 2008. From 1993 to 1994 he has been a Researcher at the Department of Electronics, University of Alcala, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests include Real-time Computer Vision and Control Systems for Autonomous and Assisted Intelligent Road Vehicles, as well as Vehicle-Infrastructure cooperation. He has been recipient of the Best Research Award in the domain of Automotive and Vehicle Applications in Spain, in 2002 and 2009, and the 3M Foundation Awards in the category of eSafety in 2003 and 2004. He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Open Transportation Journal. Since 2004, he serves as Auditor and Expert at FITSA Foundation for RTD Projects in the domain of automotive applications. In 2005, he became member of the ITS-Spain Committee. Dr Sotelo has served as Project Evaluator and Reviewer for the European Commission in the field of ICT for Intelligent Vehicles and Cooperative Systems in the VI and VII Marco Program. He is co-founder and Administrator of Vision Safety Technologies Ltd, a spin-off company established in 2009 to commercialize computer vision systems for road infrastructure inspection.  

Dipti Srinivasan is a senior member of IEEE and a member of IES, Singapore. She has published over 100 technical papers in international refereed journals and conferences.

Shuming Tang (M'03) received her Ph.D degree in automatic control engineering with the highest honor from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Currently, she is a Research Professor in the Institute of Automation, Shandong Academy of Sciences and Director of the Intelligent Control and Systems Engineering Center. She is also an Appointed Professor in Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shandong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests are focused on intelligent transportation systems (ITS), automation control, computational intelligence and complex systems, and artificial transportation systems (ATS). She has published extensively in those areas.

Dr. Tang received the prestigious President's Special Scholarship Award by the CAS in 2005 (each year 20 awards are chosen from over 10,000 PhD dissertations across all research fields). Dr. Tang also received the TOP 50 Best Dissertation Award in 2006 by CAS. Her dissertation was also recently nominated for the TOP 100 Best Dissertation Award in China (out of roughly 60,000 PhD dissertations nation-wide; the results will be announced in Spring 2007) and and the IEEE ITSS PhD Dissertation Award (results pending). She has received several best student paper awards in international conferences in the ITS area. Dr, Tang is very active profesionally in the ITS research community. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on ITS and a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE ITS Society. She is a co-Chair of the Technical Committee on ATS of ITSS. She also played an instrumental role in forming two local ITSS chapters in China.

He graduated from the University of Sarajevo in 1973 (Control) and completed his MPhil and PhD studies in Control in 1976 and 1986 respectively. He also graduated from the Conservatorium of Music, University of Sarajevo and played violin with professional orchestras.

His research interests and contributions to research span the areas of control systems, decision theory, intelligent control and computer & systems engineering; and, the application of these methodologies to industrial automation, mechatronics, intelligent robotics, computer and communication systems, knowledge management and intelligent vehicles & transport systems.

In recognition of his research achievements Professor Vlacic has been awarded: (i) the 2004 IEE Achievement Medal, IEE United Kingdom; (ii) the 2004 Sir Lionel Hooke Award, IEE Australia; (iii) the 2000 Project Excellence Award, Engineers Australia – Queensland; and (iv) was named the 2003 Engineers Australia Queensland Professional Engineer of the Year.

He serves/has served as Associate Editor of: (i) Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems (since 2006); (ii) IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (since 2005); (iii) International Journal of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering (since 2003); (iv) IEEE-CSS, Conference Editorial Board (since 2001); (v) Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics (1998-2003); (vi) Journal of Micromechatronics (since 1998); (vii) the Asian Journal of Control (1998-2001); and (viii) Journal on Information and Management (1995-2000).

He has authored/co-authored over 140 journal and conference papers, books and book chapters.

Dr Ljubo Vlacic FIEAust FIET CPEng(Aus) RPEQ(Aus) CEng(UK)

Alexander Zelinsky is a senior member of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and is a past president of the Australian Robotics and Automation Society (1997-99). In 1997 he founded and organized the first of a series of biannual academic meetings to promote the development of robotics technology for non-industrial applications through the International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR). He is a member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine and International Journal of Robotics Research.