Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems

Mashrur Chowdhury is Eugene Douglas Mays Chaired Professor of Transportation in the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering at Clemson University. He is the Director of USDOT Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility and Co-Director of the Complex Systems, Analytics, and Visualization Institute at Clemson. His research focuses on connected and automated vehicles with an emphasis on their integration within smart cities. Dr. Amy Apon has been Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Division in the School of Computing at Clemson University since 2011. She was on leave from Clemson as a Program Officer in the Computer Network Systems Division of the National Science Foundation during 2015, working on research programs in Big Data, EXploiting Parallelism and Scalability, and Computer Systems Research. Apon established the High Performance Computing Center at the University of Arkansas and directed the center from 2005 to 2011. She has more than 100 scholarly publications in areas of cluster computing, performance analysis of high performance computing systems, and scalable data analytics. She is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Apon holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University. Kakan Dey is Assistant Professor and Director of the Connected and Automated Transportation Systems (CATS) Lab at the West Virginia University. His primary research area is intelligent transportation systems, which include connected and automated vehicle technology, data science, cyber-physical systems, and smart cities.