Dr. Katehakis is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University. He holds a courtesy appointment in Rutgers' New Brunswick Department of Mathematics Graduate Faculty, and he is a member of DIMACS the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, he is a Primary Investigator of CDDA the Rutgers Center for Dynamic Data Analytics, and a member of RUTCOR, the Rutgers Center for Operations Research.

Dr. Ban’s research interests are in transportation network system modeling and simulation, urban traffic system modeling and operations, and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). He develops modeling tools to study dynamic transportation networks with emerging technologies and systems such as connected/automated vehicles and shared mobility. He also works on urban traffic system state estimation/prediction using mobile sensing data.

Ralph Alan Dusseau is the DRBA Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rowan University. He received his bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University. Dr. Dusseau’s masters thesis and doctoral dissertation both involved finite- element analysis of steel arch bridges. He spent 10 years as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Wayne State University.

Dr. Wang’s general research is in the field of sustainable and resilient built environment. His recent research focuses on: 1) multi-scale modeling and characterization of pavement material and development of multi-functional infrastructure material; 2) vehicle-pavement-environment interaction for long-lasting pavement in highway and airfield; 3) life-cycle analysis and assessment and pavement management system. His research has been sponsored by a number of Federal, State, and Local transportation agencies.