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Photo of Nithin Agarwal Nithin Agarwal Adjunct Faculty and Director for T2 Center
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Dr. Agarwal is an adjunct faculty in Civil and Coastal Engineering Department. He is also the Director for UFTI T2 Center. His research interests is in the field of signal systems, traffic operations, and highway safety. Dr. Agarwal manages the Transportation Safety Center and other resources Centers for FDOT at T2 Center. Dr. Agarwal is the current chair of the TRB Signal Timing Manual Subcommittee and a member of the Traffic Signal Systems Committee.…

Photo of Behzad Aghdashi Behzad Aghdashi Director of the McTrans Center
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Dr. Aghdashi’s areas of expertise include traffic operations on surface streets, simulation analysis, software development, and mathematical optimization. He has over ten years of professional experience focusing on research in transportation engineering. He was involved in several funded NCHRP, SHRP 2, FHWA, NCDOT, STRIDE, and University of Maryland projects. Dr. Aghdashi serves as a member for TRB Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (AHB40).…

Photo of Lili Du Lili Du Professor Emeritus
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Dr. Lili Du a Professor in the Civil and Coastal Engineering Department, University of Florida. She received her Ph.D. degree in Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems with a minor in Operations Research and Statistics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2008, MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2003, and her BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China in 1998.…

Photo of Lily Elefteriadou Lily Elefteriadou Barbara Goldsby Professor
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Dr. Elefteriadou is the Director of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI) and the Barbara Goldsby Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research focus is traffic operations, traffic flow theory and simulation. She is the principal investigator of the US DOT-funded Regional University Transportation Center for Region 4 (Southeast Transportation Research Innovation Development and Education, or STRIDE).…

Photo of Rui Guo Rui Guo Lecturer
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Rui Guo is a Lecturer of the Department of Engineering Education and the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering in the UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She currently teaches transportation courses for engineers. Before joining UF, she worked as an instructor in Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at Texas Tech University from 2017 to 2019.…

Photo of Pruthvi Manjunatha Pruthvi Manjunatha Research Assistant Professor and I-STREET Manager

Research Areas:

  • Human Factors and Driver Behavior
  • Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) infrastructure
  • Traffic Simulation
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Traffic Operations and Signal Control

Biography:
Pruthvi Manjunatha is the I-STREET Living Lab Manager and a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering.…

Photo of Shraddha Sagar Shraddha Sagar Assistant Engineer Faculty
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Research Interests
Traffic Safety, Traffic Operations, Ped & Bike Safety and Big Data Analysis
Education
B.S., Civil Engineering, 2015, University of Kerala
M.S., Civil Engineering, 2017, University of Kentucky
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, 2020, University of Kentucky
Certifications
EI

Photo of Sivaramakrishnan (Siva) Srinivasan Sivaramakrishnan (Siva) Srinivasan Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering
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Dr. Siva Srinivasan is an Associate Professor in Transportation Engineering with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. His research expertise is in the areas of travel demand forecasting, transportation safety, and transportation analytics. He was the former chair of the TRB committee on Effects of Information and Communication Technologies on Travel Choices and is a current member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Transportation Research Part B.…

Photo of Scott Washburn Scott Washburn Professor Emeritus
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Dr. Washburn’s areas of expertise include traffic flow theory, traffic operations analysis, traffic simulation model development, and development of traffic analysis and level of service computational methodologies. Dr. Washburn is also co-author of a leading textbook and develops software tools for professional practice, education, and research.
Primary Research Area
Transportation Engineering
Education
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1991
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1993
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Washington, 1999
Certifications
PE

Photo of Xiang (Jacob) Yan Xiang (Jacob) Yan Assistant Professor
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Xiang Yan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. He directs the Just & Green Transportation lab. His work focuses on using data science and AI (machine learning) to make transportation more equitable and sustainable. Bridging transportation engineering, data science, and urban planning, He takes an interdisciplinary approach to transportation research that connects technological innovations with community needs.…

Photo of Xilei Zhao Xilei Zhao Associate Professor
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Dr. Xilei Zhao is an assistant professor in Transportation Engineering at the University of Florida, where she leads the Smart, Equitable, Resilient Mobility Systems (SERMOS) Lab. She received a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and a Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. Zhao’s work focuses on developing and applying data and computational science methods to tackle challenging problems in transportation and resilience.…