Former PhD Students

Jing Dong
Country: China
Dissertation Title:
Anticipatory Traveler Information and Pricing for Real-Time Traffic Management
Graduation Date: 2008
Current Employment: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Transportation Center, Northwestern University 
Evanston, Illinois

Samer H. Hamdar
Country: Lebanon
Dissertation Title:
Modeling Driver Behavior as a Stochastic Hazard-Based Risk-Taking Process
Graduation Date: 2008
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, George Washington University

Hayssam Sbayti
Country: Lebanon
Dissertation Title: Optimal scheduling of Evacuation Operations with Contraflow
Graduation Date: 2008
Current Employment: AECOM, Arlington, Virginia

Xiang (Shawn) Fei
Country: China (US Permanent Resident)
Dissertation Title: Robustness Analysis of Sensor Coverage and Location for Real- Time Traffic Estimation and Prediction In Large-Scale Networks
Graduation Date: 2007
Current Employment: Smart Traffic Center, VDOT, Virginia Dept. of Transportation,  Arlington, Virginia

Roger B. Chen
Country: USA
Dissertation Title: Learning and Risk Perception Mechanisms in Route Choice and Activity Scheduling Dynamics
Graduation Date: 2007
Current Employment:
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Transportation Center, Northwestern University 
Evanston, Illinois

Jason Chung-Cheng Lu
Country: Taiwan
Dissertation Title: Multi-Criterion Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model and Algorithm for Large-Scale Road Network Congestion Pricing with Heterogeneous Users
Graduation Date: 2007
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Logistics Management, National Kaohsiung First Univ. of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yeonjoo Min
Country: South Korea
Dissertation Title: Dynamic Strategy Choice Behavior under Competitive Environment: Application to Electronic Freight Auction Marketplaces
Graduation Date: 2007
Current Employment: Research Associate, Logistics Korea Transport Institute, Seoul, South Korea

Ricardo Giesen
Country: Chile
Dissertation Title: Strategies for the Real-time Inventory Routing Problem
Graduation Date: 2006
Current Employment:Assistant Professor, Dept. of Transportation Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catholica de Chile, 
Santiago, Chile

Xiao Qin
Country: China
Dissertation Title:Traffic Flow Modeling With Real-Time Data For On-Line Network Traffic Estimation And Prediction
Graduation Date: 2006
Current Employment:
Consultant, BAI, Inc., Columbia, Maryland

Xuesong Zhou
Country: China
Dissertation Title: Dynamic Origin-Destination Demand Estimation and Prediction for Online Dynamic Traffic Assignment Operation
Graduation Date: 2004
Current Employment:Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Miguel Andres Figliozzi
Country: Argentina
Dissertation Title:Performance and Analysis of Spot Truck-Load Procurement Markets Using Sequential Auctions
Graduation Date: 2004
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University
Portland, Oregon

Pamela Murray-Tuite
Country: USA
Dissertation Title: Urban Network Reliability and Household Decision Making  under Disaster and Major Emergency Conditions
Graduation Date: 2003
Current Employment: Assistant Professor Virginia Tech, Falls Church, VA

Yong-Jin Kim
Country: Korea
Dissertation Title: Hybrid Approaches to solving Dynamic Fleet Management Problems
Graduation Date: Summer, 2003
Current Employment: Professor, Asian Pacific School of Logistics, Inha University, Incheon, Korea

Hossein Tavana
Country: Iran
Dissertation Title: Internally-Consistent Estimation of Dynamic Network Origin-Destination Flows from Intelligent Transportation Systems Data Using Bi-Level Optimization
Graduation Date: Summer, 2001
Current Employment: Operations Research Specialist, Carnival Cruise Lines, Miami, Florida

Yi-Chang Chiu
Country: Taiwan
Dissertation Title: Generalized Real-Time Route Guidance Strategies in Urban Network
Graduation Date: Summer, 2001
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Arizona

Akmal Abdelfatah
Country: Egypt
Dissertation Title: Time-Dependent Signal Control and System Optimal Traffic Assignment in Congested Vehicular Traffic Networks
Graduation Date: Summer, 1999
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Ahmed Abdelghany
Country: Egypt
Dissertation Title: Management of Congested Traffic Networks by Providing Real-Time Travel Information to Influence Commuters' Decisions over Space and Time
Graduation Date: Summer, 2001
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Marketing, Strategy, & Operations, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida

Khaled Abdelghany
Country: Egypt
Dissertation Title: Dynamic Traffic Assignment for Intermodal Transportation Networks with Real-Time Consistent Information Supply Strategies
Graduation Date: Summer, 2001
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
 
Karthik Srinivasan
Country: India
Dissertation Title: Dynamic Decision and Adjustment Processes in Commuter Behavior under Real-Time Traffic Information
Graduation Date: Summer, 2000
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Didier Valdes
Country: Columbia
Dissertation Title: Integrated Information and Traffic Control Strategies using ITS on Congested Urban Transportation Networks
Graduation Date: Fall 1999
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico

Ying Kang
Country: China (US Permanent Resident)
Dissertation Title: Estimation and Prediction of Dynamic Origin-Destination Flows and System Consistency Control for Real Time Dynamic Traffic Assignment Operation in Congested Vehicular Networks
Graduation Date: Spring 1999
Current Employment: Consultant, PROS Consulting, Houston, Texas

Jorge Acha-Daza
Country: Mexico
Dissertation Title: The User's Response to Pricing in a Traffic Network
Graduation Date: Fall 1998
Current Employment: Senior Researcher, Instituto Mexicano del Transporte, QuerŽtaro, Mexico

Peter Chen
Country: Taiwan (US Permanent Resident)
Dissertation Title: Dynamics of Urban Commuter Behavior under Real-Time Traffic Information
Graduation Date: Fall 1998
Current Employment: (formerly) Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Dean Taylor
Country: USA
Dissertation Title: Contributions to Bicycle-Automobile Mixed-Traffic Science: Behavioural Models and Engineering Applications
Graduation Date: Spring 1998
Current Employment: Private Consultant, Transportation and the environment, and bicycle transportation issues, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Rodrigo Garrido-Hidalgo
Country: Chile
Dissertation Title: Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Freight Demand
Graduation Date: Summer 1997
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Department of Transportation, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Elise Miller-Hooks

Country: USA
Dissertation Title: Optimal Routing in Time-Varying, Stochastic Networks: Algorithms and Implementation
Graduation Date: Summer 1997
Current Employment: AssociateProfessor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

Yu-Hsin Liu
Country: Taiwan
Dissertation Title: Dynamics of Commuter Behaviour under Real-Time Traffic Information
Graduation Date: Spring 1997
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Dept. of Transportation Engineering, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan

Amelia Regan

Country: USA
Dissertation Title: Real-Time Information for Improved Efficiency of Commercial Vehicle Operations
Graduation Date: Spring 1997
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California

Thomas Joseph
Country: India (US Permanent Resident)
Dissertation Title: Freeway Corridor Control in a Day-to-Day Dynamic Framework
Graduation Date: Summer 1996
Current Employment: Consultant, i2 Technologies, Irving, Texas

Yaser Hawas
Country: Egypt
Dissertation Title: A Decentralized Architecture and Local Search Procedures for Real-Time Route Guidance in Congested Vehicular Traffic Network
Graduation Date: Spring 1996
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates

Ta-Yin Hu
Country: Taiwan
Dissertation Title: Dynamic Analysis of Network Flows under Advanced Information and Control Systems
Graduation Date: Spring 1995
Current Employment: Assistant Professor, Feng-Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Athanasios Ziliaskopoulos
Country: Greece (US Permanent Resident)
Dissertation Title: Optimum Path Algorithms on Multi-Dimensional Networks: Analysis, Design, Implementation and Computational Experience
Graduation Date: Summer 1994
Current Employment: University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

Rong-Chang Jou
Country: Taiwan
Dissertation Title: A Model of Dynamic Commuter Behavior Incorporating Trip-Chaining
Graduation Date: Spring 1994
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

Jin-Ru Yen
Country: Taiwan
Dissertation Title: The Telecommuting Adoption Process: Conceptual Framework and Model Development
Graduation Date: Spring 1994
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Shipping and Transportation Management, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

Srinivas Peeta
Country: India (US Permanent Resident)
Dissertation Title: System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment in Congested Networks with Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS)
Graduation Date: Spring 1994
Current Employment: Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Mao Chang Shih
Country: Taiwan
Dissertation Title: A Design Methodology for Bus Transit Route Networks with Coordinated Operations
Graduation Date: Spring 1994
Current Employment: Adjunct Professor, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
 
R. Jayakrishnan
Country: India (US Permanent Resident)
Dissertation Title: In-Vehicle Information Systems for Network Traffic Control: A Simulation Framework to Study Alternative Guidance Strategies
Graduation Date: Spring 1992
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California

Kyriacos Mouskos
Country: Cyprus (US Permanent Resident)
Dissertation Title: A Tabu-Based Heuristic Search Strategy to Solve a Discrete Transportation Equilibrium Network Design Problem
Graduation Date: Fall 1991
Current Employment: Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, City University of New York, New York City, New York

Soi-Hoi Lam
Country: Macau
Dissertation Title: Multinomial Probit Model Estimation: Computational Procedures and Applications
Graduation Date: Fall 1991
Current Employment: Associate Professor, Division of Geotechnical and Transportation Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Chee-Chung Tong
Country: Taiwan
Dissertation Title: A Study of Dynamic Departure Time and Route Choice Behavior of Urban Commuters
Graduation Date: Spring 1990
Current Employment: Professor, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan

Saad Al Gadhi
Country: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Dissertation Title: Characterization of Crowd Behavior and Movement
Graduation Date: Summer 1990
Current Employment: Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Mohamed Hadi Baaj
Country: Lebanon
Dissertation Title: The Transit Network Design Problem: An AI-Based Solution Approach
Graduation Date: Summer 1990
Current Employment: (former) Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

James Williams
Country: USA
Dissertation Title: Urban Traffic Network Performance: Flow Theory and Simulation Experiments
Graduation Date: Fall 1986
Current Employment: Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas

 Gang-Len Chang
Country: Taiwan (US Permanent Resident)
Dissertation Title: Departure Time Decision Dynamics in the Urban Transportation Network
Graduation Date: Summer 1985
Current Employment: Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland