People

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Paul Schonfeld

https://cee.umd.edu/clark/faculty/291/Paul-Schonfeld

 

President: Saeed Saleh Namadi

“Hi I am Saeed Saleh Namadi, currently a second year Ph.D. student at the Maryland Transportation Institute (MTI), University of Maryland, College Park. I was elected as the President of ITS-ITE at UMD in November, 2022.

I have worked on the Next Generation NHTS project. The NextGen NHTS program focuses on providing national travel behavior data on a more frequent basis than prior NHTS efforts and adding annual passive original destination (OD) truck and passenger data products at the national level based on mobile device location data.

I received my M.S. in Civil Engineering, Transportation  at the University of Maryland-College Park.”

Email: Saeed@umd.edu

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Secretary: Livingstone Imonitie

“Hi, I am Livingstone Imonitie a second-year graduate student from Nigeria with a major in Transportation Engineering.  My research interest focuses on traffic safety and big data analysis. I currently work with Professor Cinzia Cirillo at the Maryland Transportation Institute where I am responsible for building a traffic safety model to identify the causes of the severity of crashes on the roadway in Maryland and provide recommendations to alleviate the problem which is in line with the Maryland VisionZero. I got My Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Benin.”

 

Webmaster: Asal Mehditabrizi

“Hi, I am Asal Mehditabrizi a second year Ph.D. student in transportation engineering at the Maryland Institute of transportation (MTI), University of Maryland.

I am currently work under the supervision of Dr Cinzia Cirillo; and my research area is mainly on data mining and the application of machine learning and statistical modeling in transportation projects.

I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran.”

Email: asal97@umd.edu

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Event Coordinator: Sayantan Tarafdar

“Hi, I am Sayantan Tarafdar a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park. My advisor is Dr. Xianfeng (Terry) Yang. I hold a MS degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Tech. My research includes topics like Urban Air Mobility (UAM), applications of computer vision in transportation, and charging facility locations for Electric Vehicles (EVs).”

 

Vice President: Mohammad Safari

Event Coordinator: Yi Zhang