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Trnascations Associate Editors
Brackstone, Mark
   
   
 
 
Chen, Hsinchun
Dr. Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona and Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year (1999). He received the Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from New York University. He is author of seven books and more than 100 SCI journal articles covering intelligence analysis, data/text/web mining, digital library, knowledge management, medical informatics, and Web computing. He serves on the editorial board of Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and Decision Support Systems. Dr Chen is founding director of the UA Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman E-Commerce Lab. The UA Artificial Intelligence Lab, which houses 40+ researchers, has received more than $17M in research funding from NSF, NIH, NLM, DOJ, CIA, and other agencies over the past 15 years. Dr. Chen is also conference chair of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Library (JCDL) in 2004. Dr. Chen is also instrumental in the development of Intelligence and Security Informatics research in U.S. and had served as conference co-chair of the NSF/NIJ/DHS/CIA-sponsored Symposium on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2003 and 2004. His COPLINK system has been widely adopted in law enforcement (more than 100 agencies) and the intelligence community (CIA, NSA, and Department of Homeland Security) in the USA.
     
Darbha, Swarnoop  
 
     
De Schutter, Bart  
Bart De Schutter received the degree in electrotechnical-mechanical engineering in 1991 and the doctoral degree in Applied Sciences (summa cum laude with congratulations of the examination jury) in 1996, both at K.U.Leuven, Belgium. Currently, he is associate professor at the Delft Center for Systems and Control of Delft University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands. Bart De Schutter was awarded the 1998 SIAM Richard C. DiPrima Prize and the 1999 K.U.Leuven Robert Stock Prize for his PhD thesis. His current research interests include traffic control, control of large-scale transportation networks, hybrid systems control, multi-agent systems, and optimization.
     
Dia, Hussein    
Director, Intelligent Transport Systems Research Laboratory
Senior Lecturer, Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
BSc (Purdue) MSc (Purdue) PhD (Monash) MIEAust MASCE MITE CPEng NPER

Hussein's main professional interests are in the areas of traffic simulation and modelling of ITS impacts and the development of real-time algorithms for traffic management applications. He has 18 years of experience in public and private sector organisations both in Australia and overseas. He has previously worked in consulting, research and Information Technology organisations and academia, where he consulted and conducted research in Transportation and Decision Support Systems.

Hussein has extensive and demonstrated involvement in ITS education, professional development, research and consulting. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer and is affiliated with a number of professional organisations such as the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), the Institution of Engineers Australia (IEAust) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Hussein currently serves as the Queensland Director for the ITE Australia and NewZealand Section.

H.Dia@uq.edu.au
www.itslab.eng.uq.edu.au
     
Dingus, Thomas
Thomas A. Dingus is a Professor of Civil Engineering and is the Director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute.
Prior to his appointments at Virginia Tech, Dr. Dingus was an Associate Director in the University of Iowa Center for Computer-Aided Design, where he was responsible for the administration of the human factors research program associated with the Iowa Driving Simulator. Dr. Dingus was also the founding Director of the National Center for Advanced Transportation Technology at the University of Idaho. He received his Ph.D. in 1987 in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Prior to attending graduate school, Dr. Dingus served for one year as a Research Scientist for the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory Advanced Simulation Techniques Branch and for four years as a Human Factors Engineer and Senior Human Factors Engineer for Martin-Marietta Aerospace. Since 1989, Dr. Dingus has been under continuous contract with General Motors Research Laboratories, while consulting on a variety of advanced automotive design and test and evaluation applications.
His research centers on intelligent vehicle highway systems, driver attention demand, driver workload, advanced information display design, human factors, and safety.
Dr. Dingus has been involved in the specification, design, and construction of three instrumented research vehicles, has conducted six major on-road instrumented vehicle studies (over 30,000 miles), and has been involved in nine major driving simulation studies.
Dr. Dingus is currently a member of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America, the American Society of Safety Engineers and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
     
Erera, Alan    
Research Interests
  • logistics systems design and control
  • vehicle routing
  • dynamic and stochastic logistics problems
  • transportation system design and control
  • transportation system security and efficiency
     
Eskandarian, Azim    
Research Interests
  • 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
     
Fukuda, Toshio  
Toshio Fukuda (M'83-SM'93-F'95) graduated from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1971 and received the Master of Engineering degree and the Doctor of Engineering degree both from the University of Tokyo, in 1973 and 1977, respectively. Meanwhile, he studied at the graduate school of Yale University from 1973 to 1975. In 1977, he joined the National Mechanical Engineering Laboratory in Japan. From 1979 to 1980, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Stuttgart, West Germany. He joined the Science University of Tokyo in 1981, and then joined Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nagoya University, Japan in 1989.

At present, he is Professor of Dept. of Micro System Engineering and Dept. of Mechano-Informatics and Systems, Nagoya University, Japan. He is mainly engaging in the research fields of intelligent robotic system, self-organizing system, micro robotics, robotic system under hostile environment, bio-robotic system, neuromorphic intelligent control, fuzzy control, control of mechanical systems and technical diagnosis.
     
Goudy, Roy  
  Roy Goudy is a graduate of the University of Washington where he earned a BS in Metallurgical Engineering in 1981. He also earned an MS in Physics from the University of Utah in 1989. Since 1990 he has been with Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. in Japan. There, he developed laser radar systems for both object and lane detection, then developed international standards for advanced driver assistance systems such as adaptive cruise control, forward obstacle warning systems and maneuvering aids for low speed applications before moving on to the development of automatic brake control systems. From 2001 to 2004 he participated in the US Department of Transportation's Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) Enhanced Digital Map project where played a key role in the development of Toyota's Stop Sign Assistant system. While participating in the IVI project he earned MS degrees in Automotive Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University in 2003 and 2004 respectively. He is currently a project manager in AISIN Seiki's ITS Engineering Department.
     
Johnson, Brian    
Brian K. Johnson, Ph.D., PE (Member IEEE) is a professor in the University of Idaho Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His ITS related research interests include: real-time hardware-in-the-loop traffic simulation, plug-and-play control networks, ITS network security, secure and dependable embedded control systems, and intelligent control schemes for high speed rail locomotives. He is active with the IEEE Power Engineering, Industry Applications and Industrial Electronics Societies.
     
Kaysi, Isam
Dr. Kaysi, is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, specializing in transportation. At AUB, he teaches graduate courses in transport operations, urban transportation planning, demand analysis, and transportation economics. He received his Masters degree in Civil Engineering (1988) and Ph.D. degree in Transportation Systems (1992) from MIT. His research interests include advanced technology applications in transport, national and regional transportation planning, and public transport systems. He has published more than 50 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Dr. Kaysi has also acted as an advisor and consultant on numerous assignments in North and South America, Europe, the Arab Gulf, and Lebanon.
     
Kohno, Ryuji    
Ryuji Kohno received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1984. Dr. Kohno is currently a Professor of the Division of Physics, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University. In his currier he was a director of Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory of SONY CSL during 1998-2002 and currently a director of UWB Technology institute of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). In his academic activities, he was elected as a member of the Board of Governors of IEEE Information Theory (IT) Society in 2000 and 2003. He has played a role of an editor of the IEEE Transactions on IT, Communications, and Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). He is a fellow of IEICE and has been the Chairman of the IEICE Technical Committee on Spread Spectrum Technology, that on ITS, and that on Software Defined Radio(SDR). Prof. Kohno has contributed for organizing many international conferences, such as an chair-in honor of 2002 & 2003 International Conference of SDR(SDR'02 & SDR'03), a TPC co-chair of 2003 International Workshop on UWB Systems(IWUWBS'03), and a general co-chair of 2003 IEEE International Symposium on IT (ISIT'03), that of Joint UWBST&IWUWB'04 and so on. He was awarded IEICE Greatest Contribution Award and NTT DoCoMo Mobile Science Award in 1999 and 2002, respectively.
     
Lee, Der-horng
  Professor Lee Der-Horng is an associate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at NUS. Professor Lee was graduated with his PhD degree from the University of Illinois in 1996 and his expertise includes intelligent transportation systems (ITS), travel forecasting, traffic simulation, transportation planning, supply chain planning and optimization, etc. Professor Lee has authored more than 175 referred journal articles, book chapters, books, and conference papers detailing his research activities.
Professor Lee was an Honoree of 2002 TR100 Award by MIT's Technology Review. TR100 is an award for World 100 top innovators under 35 whose work and ideas will change the world. Professor Lee has been listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering since 2003, Marquis Who's Who in World since 2004, and Marquis Who's Who in Asia since 2005. He holds memberships in two key research committees of Transportation Research Board (TRB), National Research Council, US National Academies. Professor Lee is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He also serves as a member in Editorial Advisory Board for Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies (Elsevier), ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Journal of Urban Planning and Development, and International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (Taylor & Francis). Professor Lee is also the Secretary for T-Log, the International Conference of Transportation Logistics, initiated in 2005 by the National University of Singapore, University of Tokyo, Tsinghua University (China), University of Hong Kong, and Chulalongkorn University (Thailand).
Professor Lee is active in international transportation research and professional activities. Bilingual in Mandarin and English and familiar with eastern and western cultures, Professor Lee is frequently consulted by companies, organizations, and governments on transportation issues and projects.

dhl@nus.edu.sg
www.eng.nus.edu.sg/civil/
www.tliap.nus.edu.sg/

     
Liu, Yili    
Professor Liu teaches courses in human factors/ergonomics. His many interests in research include human-machine information systems such as human-computer communications systems, human information processing, intelligent cognitive aids, cognitive engineering and cognitive ergonomics.
     
Mahmassani, Hani    

Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani holds the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair of Transportation at Northwestern University, where he is Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Professor (courtesy) in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management.

From 2002 to 2007, he was at the University of Maryland, where he was most recently the first holder of the Charles Irish Sr. Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and founding Director of the Maryland Transportation Initiative. Before Maryland, he was on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin for 20 years, where he was most recently the A. Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering, Professor of Management Science and Information Systems and Director of the Advanced Institute for Transportation Infrastructure Engineering and Management.

Dr. Mahmassani received his PhD in Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 and MS in Transportation Engineering from Purdue in 1978. He chairs several technical and professional committees in the US and internationally, and is the current Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Science, and Associate Editor of Transportation Research C (Emerging Technologies) as well as the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He serves on the editorial boards of the major transportation journals. He has served as the Paper Review Chair of the Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics of the Transportation Research Board since 1989, and is the immediate past president of that committee. He is a past president of the Transportation Science Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and a past President of the International Association for Travel Behavior Research. He has published over 200 refereed articles and conference proceedings, and over 100 technical reports. He has served as Principal investigator on over 100 funded research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Texas Advanced Technology Program, General Motors Research Laboratories, Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Governor's Office, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Baltimore Metropolitan Council, Maryland State Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, and served as consultant to several companies and government agencies in the areas of transportation modeling, operations, logistics and intelligent transportation systems. He has served in an advisory capacity to various institutes and programs, and has performed several program assessments of leading international research institutes and corporate R&D departments.

masmah@northwestern.edu http://transportation.northwestern.edu/mahmassani/
     
Masaki, Ichiro    
Research Interests:
Integration of component technologies and system design for ITS VLSI chip architecture machine vision systems microelectronics for communication, sensing, and control policies and system design for ITS
     
Ozguner, Umit    
Professor Ozguner specializes in large-scale, intelligent systems modeling and optimization, hybrid systems, decentralized control, automotive (ABS, active suspension, integrated vehicle dynamics), and transportation systems (optimal routing and relation to signalization), Automated Highway Systems and all aspects of ITS.
     
Papageorgiou, Markos
Markos Papageorgiou (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor and Director of the Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory at the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece. He received the Diplom-Ingenieur and Doktor-Ingenieur (honors) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 1976 and 1981 respectively. In 1988-1994 he was a Professor of Automation at the Technical University of Munich. He is the author of the books Applications of Automatic Control Concepts to Traffic Flow Modelling and Control (Berlin, Germany: Springer, 1983) and Optimierung (Munich, Germany: R. Oldenbourg, 1991; 1996), and the editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Traffic and Transportation Systems (Oxford, UK: Pergamon Press, 1991). His research interests include automatic control, optimisation, and their application to traffic and transportation systems, water networks and further areas. He is an Associate Editor of Transportation Research-Part C and of IEEE Trans. on Intelligent Transportation Systems and Chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE) and a Fellow of IEEE. He received a DAAD scholarship (1971-1976), the 1983 Eugen-Hartmann award from the Union of German Engineers (VDI), and a Fulbright Lecturing/Research Award (1997).
     
Roy, Sumit    
Sumit Roy received the B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) in 1983, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California (Santa Barbara), all in Electrical Engineering in 1985 and 1988 respectively, as well as an M.A. in Statistics and Applied Probability in 1988. Presently he is Assoc. Chair and Prof. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Washington where his research interests include analysis/design of several wireless communication systems/networks, with an emphasis on wireless LANs (802.11) and wireless MANs (802.16) networks. He spent 2001-03 on academic leave at Intel Wireless Technology Lab as a Senior Researcher engaged in systems architecture and standards development for ultra-wideband systems (Wireless PANs) and next generation high-speed wireless LANs. His activities for the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) includes membership of several technical and conference program committees (most recently, Vice Chair of Technical Program Committee for IEEE WCNC05 conference). He has served as Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Communications and IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications and currently serves on the Editorial Board for IEEE Trans. Mobile Computing and Wiley J. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing.
     
Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 1992. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Center for Distributed Robotics. His research interests include robotics, sensors for transportation applications, control, and computer vision. He has authored or coauthored more than 180 journal and conference papers in the above areas (forty one refereed journal papers). He was finalist for the Anton Philips Award for Best Student Paper in the 1991 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation and recipient of the best Video Award in the 2000 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation. He was a McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota for the period 1995-1997 and has received the NSF Research Initiation and Early Career Development Awards. One of his papers (co-authored by O. Masoud) was awarded the IEEE VTS 2001 Best Land Transportation Paper Award.
     
Sarter, Nadine    
Professor Sarter's main research interests include the design and evaluation of multimodal HCI and CSCW interfaces, human error and error management, attention management, and the design of decision support systems. Her research is conducted in application domains such as aviation, military operations, and the modern car cockpit. Professor Sarter is a member of the editorial boards for Human Factors, the International Journal of Aviation Psychology, and the Journal of Human Performance in Extreme Environments.
     
Scherer, William    
Dr. William T. Scherer received his PhD. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. He has taught at the University of Virginia Department of Systems and Information Engineering since 1986, developing and offering undergraduate and graduate courses in systems engineering methodology, engineering design, decision analysis, stochastic control, and operations research. His current research interests include Intelligent Transportation Systems, Markov decision processes, systems engineering methodologies, and engineering education.
     
Srinivasan, Dipti    
Dipti Srinivasan obtained her M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1991 and 1994 respectively. She worked at the University of California at Berkeley's Computer Science Division as a postdoctoral researcher from 1994 to 1995. In June 1995, she joined the faculty of the Electrical & Computer Engineering department at the National University of Singapore, where she is an Assistant Professor. From 1998-1999 she was a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. Her main areas of interest are neural networks, evolutionary computation, intelligent multi-agent systems, and application of computational intelligence techniques to engineering optimization, planning and control problems in intelligent transportation systems and power systems.

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.

     
Takahashi, Hiroshi    
     
Tang, Shuming    

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.

     
Tarnoff, Philip    

Mr. Tarnoff is currently the Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology at the University of Maryland. In this position he is responsible for much of the University's ITS research. Mr. Tarnoff has extensive experience with both the practical and the theoretical aspects of traffic signal systems. He has been invovled in signal timing, signal operation, design, and installation in cities throughout the U.S. He has also been invovled in numerous research projects related to advanced signal control, which were sponsored by the Federal Highway Administation, NCHRP, and the state of Maryland.

Prior to joining the University of Maryland, Mr. Tarnoff was the president and founder of PB Farradyne, a leading consultant and systems integrator of Intelligent Transportaton Systems. While at PB Farradyne, he was project manager of numerous ITS projects including the TRANSMIT system developed for TRANSCOM which performed traffic surveillance and incident detection using electronic toll tags. He was also the project manager for the RT-TRACS adaptive traffic signal control project. Mr. Tarnoff is a past member of the ITS America Coordinating Council. He currently is a member of the board of directors of the ITS America Association, and a member of the ITS America Futures Group. He is also a borad member of ITS Maryland. Before founding PB Farradyne, Mr. Tarnoff worked for Alan M. Voorhees and Associates and the Federal Highway Administraiton.

     
Toh, Chai-Keong    
Chai-Keong Toh is currently a Professor and Chair in Communication Networks at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is also the Director of the UK Ad Hoc Wireless Consortium and Director of the Queen Mary/Fudan Joint Research Lab in Mobile Networking and Ubiquitous Computing. Concurrently, he is also an Honorary Professor with the University of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Professor at Fudan University, Shanghai. Previously, he was the Director of Research with TRW Tactical Systems in California, USA (now Northrop Grumman Corporation) and was responsible for DARPA and Army programs in communications and networking. He had also worked for Huges Research, ALR, HP and was a professor at GeorgiaTech and University of California Irvine. Chai-Keong is the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Technical Medal Award, for "pioneering contributions to communication protocols in ad hoc mobile wireless networks." He is the author of "Wireless ATM & Ad Hoc Networks" (Kluwer Press, 1996) and "Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks" (Prentice Hall Engineering Title Best Seller, 2001-2003). He is a recipient of the ACM Recognition of Service Award, for co-founding ACM Mobi-Hoc Conference. He is a co-recipient of the Korean Science & Engineering Foundation Best Journal Paper Ward for his works on ad hoc TCP. Chai-Keong was formerly the Chairman of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications and Chairman of IEEE Sub-committee on Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks. He was an IEEE Expert/Distinguished Lecturer and had served as a Steering Committee Member for IEEE WCNC Conference and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He was a member of IEEE Communications Society Meetings & Conference Board. Chai-Keong was an editor IEEE Network, IEEE JSAC, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Journal on Communication Networks, and IEEE Distributed Systems. He is a Fellow of four societies: British Computer society, the IEE, the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and the New Zealand Computer Society. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University, England, and his executive education from Harvard.
     
Vlacic, Ljubo    
Professor Ljubo Vlacic is a member of Griffith University's School of Engineering and Director of its Intelligent Control Systems Laboratory. His career has included a number of positions with both industry and academia. This experience includes the design, development, field-testing and deployment of a variety of sophisticated electronic devices for industrial control applications as well as senior management positions such as, Technical Director, Project Director, Program Director and Head of School.

He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia (FIEAust), a fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers UK (FIEE), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, U.S.A. (SMIEEE), a Chartered Professional Engineer of Australia (CPEng), a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ) and a Chartered Engineer of UK (CEng).

He has been named the 2003 Queensland Professional Engineer of the Year in recognition of his work in the development and prototyping of the ICSL Cooperative Autonomous Driving Technology, and the world's first demonstration of intersection traversal and cooperative overtaking maneuvers by autonomous vehicles capable of transporting human passengers. For a detailed list of awards he recieved please click here.

Professor Vlacic's 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, manufacturing, computer and communication systems, knowledge management and intelligent vehicles & transport systems.
     
Wang, Fei-Yue    
Areas of Interest:
Applied Technologies: ASIC, SOC, SOPC, ASOS, RT OS, Embedded Systems, Agent-Based Distributed Systems
Application Areas: ITS, IV, GPS, Telematics, Web Caching, Smart Appliance and Home Systems
Current Focus in Basic Research:
     1) Computing with Words and Linguistic Dynamic Systems (LDS)
     2) Control Mechanism of Complex Systems
     3) Agent-based Distributed Systems and Intelligent Control
Mathematical theory of intelligent machines: non-monotonic deduction and knowledge-base; fuzzy logic, neural nets, and distributed learning; coordination and task plan translation; complexity and relibility analysis.
Robotics and Automation: dynamics, control, and computer vision; space robotics and structures.
Manufacturing systems: specification, design, control synthesis, and evaluation af CIM systems; discrete event dynamic systems with applications in CIMs
     
White, Chelsea    
Chelsea (Chip) C. White III is the H. Milton and Carolyn H. Stewart School Chair and Schneider National Chair of Transportation & Logistics at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech.
His areas of research interest include stochastic optimization and artificial intelligence for problem solving, with application to transportation, logistics, and supply chain systems. His current research focus is concerned with how real time information can help improve productivity and security in the transportation and logistics sector of the economy.
He is the Director of Georgia Tech's Trucking Industry Program, which is a member of the Sloan Foundation's Industry Centers Network.
His involvement with the IEEE includes serving currently as editor of two of the IEEE Transactions. He is past president of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, a Fellow of the IEEE, the recipient of the 1999 IEEE SMC Norbert Wiener Award (an award for life long contributions in research), and a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of several public and private organizations, including Intelligent Transportation Society (ITS) of America, a Utilized Federal Advisory Committee to USDOT. As the ITS America representative, he has recently testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works regarding the "Reauthorization of the Federal Surface Transportation Research Program."
     
Wong, S.C.    
Dr. S.C. Wong is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the optimization of traffic-signal settings, continuous modeling for traffic equilibrium problems, traffic flow theory, traffic management and control, transportation planning and network modeling, and road safety. In 2003, he served as a member of the Tuen Mun Road Traffic Incident Independent Expert Panel, appointed by the Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR Government. He is currently a member of the Transport Advisory Committee and Road Safety Research Committee of the Hong Kong SAR Government; Vice-President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies. He is also a member of several international committees: A1C05 Network Modeling Committee of the Transportation Research Board, Committee of Application of Advanced Technologies in Transportation of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and International Scientific Committee of the Eastern Asian Society for Transportation Studies. He is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of several journals: Transportation Research Part B; Journal of Advanced Transportation; ASCE Journal of Urban Planning and Development; Journal of Transportation Systems Engineering and Information Technology; and China Intelligent Transport System.
     
Zelinsky, Alexander    
Dr. Alex Zelinsky is Director of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre for CSIRO. The CSIRO ICT Centre with 200 research professionals is responsible for developing ICT technologies that deliver the benefits of innovation to industry and position Australia to compete globally.
Prior to joining CSIRO in July 2004 Dr Zelinsky was Chief Executive Officer of Seeing Machines Pty Limited and a Professor at the Australian National University, in the Research School of Information Sciences & Engineering. He received his Bachelor (1983) and PhD (1991) degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Wollongong, Australia.
He has worked as a Research Scientist in Japan (1992-1995) at the University of Tsukuba and the Electrotechnical Laboratory. In 1996 he joined the Australian National University to lead the Robotics Systems Laboratory. His primary research interests are in mobile robotics, multi-robot systems, human robot interaction and real-time computer vision systems. In recent years the focus of his work has moved to building systems that are suitable for reliable deployment in the real-world, with the ultimate goal of developing robotic technology for mass-market applications. Seeing Machines was established to commercialise computer vision technology for the automotive industry.

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.
     
Zhao, Yilin    
   
     
Zheng, Nan-Ning    
   
     
Qiang Ji    

Qiang Ji received his Ph.D degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. He is currently an associate Professor with the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Prior to joining RPI in 2001, he was an assistant professor with Dept. of Computer Science, University of Nevada at Reno. He also held research and visiting positions with the Beckman Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, 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, pattern recognition, and probabilistic graphical models. He has published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research has been supported by major governmental agencies including NSF, NIH, DARPA, ONR, ARO, and AFOSR as well as by major companies including Honda and Boeing. Prof. Ji is an editor on several computer vision and pattern recognition related journals and he has served as a program committee member, area char, and program chair in numerous international conferences/workshops.

Prof. Ji is a senior member of the IEEE

http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~qji/