Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics

Research Affiliates

Andy Alden
Andrew Alden
Mr. Alden is a senior research associate at VTTI and currently leads VTTI’s Eco-Transportation and Alternative Technologies group. He has practiced in the fields of transportation safety technology, intelligent transportation systems, pedestrian/cyclist safety, and bus routing and schedule optimization. Alden's CATM research centers on a low-speed autonomous shuttle being deployed to support the research project, "Automated Last Mile connectivity for Vulnerable Road Users." Click here to view a webinar video on the project. 
Address: 3500 Transportation Research Plaza
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Phone: 540-231-1526
Fax: 540-231-1550
Email: aalden@vtti.vt.edu

 

Jon Antin
Jon Antin
Dr. Antin serves as the Research Program Manager for CATM. He is also the Director of the Center for Vulnerable Road User Safety at VTTI. He has served as P.I. or CoP.I. on numerous research projects including several related to senior drivers and road safety. Antin is responsible for more than 70 publications and presentations including transportation-related journals and conference papers and presentations.
Address: 3500 Transportation Research Plaza, Blacksburg, VA 24060
Phone: 540-231-1579
Fax: 540-231-1555

 

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Lauren Davis
Dr. Davis is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at N.C. A&T State University. Her research interests are in stochastic modeling of supply chain systems, with a focus on models for quantifying the value of information.
Address: 1601 East Market Street
404 McNair Hall
Greensboro, NC 27411
Phone: 336-285-3724
Fax: 336-334-7729
Email: lbdavis@ncat.edu 

 

Myounghoon Jeon
Myounghoon Jeon
Dr. Jeon is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech. He conducts research on human-computer interaction and human-robot interaction. His research in the automotive domain includes in-vehicle auditory displays, intelligent agents and affective interfaces. 
Address: 1185 Perry St.
Blacksburg VA 24061
Phone: 540-231-3510

 

 

Charlie Klauer
Charlie Klauer
Dr. Klauer leads the Training Systems group at VTTI. She is also an associate professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department. Her research focuses on teen drivers' risk and injury prevention.
Address: 557 Whittemore Hall (MC 0118)
1185 Perry Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: 540-231-6270

 

Dahai Lui
Dahai Liu
Dr. Liu is a professor in the Department of Graduate Studies in the College of Aviation at ERAU. His research interests reside in the area of systems engineering, human computer interaction, and human factors in aerospace and aviation. He is published extensively in journals affiliated with these topics.
Address: 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Phone: 386-226-6214
Fax: 386-226-279

 

Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller
Mr. Miller is a research associate in the Center for Truck and Bus Safety at VTTI. Mr. Miller assists in research and outreach efforts designed to enhance safety for all commercial motor vehicle drivers through a focus on health and wellness or in human factors testing of advanced systems.
Address: 3500 Transportation Research Plaza
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Phone: 540-231-1095 Fax: 540-231-1555
Email: amiller@vtti.vt.edu

 

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Sirish Namilae
Dr. Namilae is an assistant professor of aerospace engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. His research interests are in the area of composites and computational modeling of complex systems with applications in materials engineering and transportation. He presented his final findings on his CATM research project, Transportation Applications of Multiscale and Epidemiological Models, in a webinar you can view here
Address: 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Phone: 386-226-6445 Fax: 386-226-6747
Email: Namilaes@erau.edu

 

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Justin Owens
Dr. Owens is a senior researcher at VTTI. In his current position, he examines how drivers interact with technology, vehicles, other road users, and the surrounding roadway environment, with the overarching goal of making roadways safer. His research focus is on improving safety for vulnerable road users.
Address: 3500 Transportation Research Plaza
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Phone:540-231-1010 Fax: 540-231-9560
Email: jowens@vtti.vt.edu  

 

Jing Yu Pan
Jing Yu Pan
Dr. Pan is an assistant professor in the School of Graduate Studies, College of Aviation, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Pan is currently conducting CATM sponsored research on "Mask-wearing behaviors in air travel during coronavirus pandemic - an extended theory of planned behavior model. You can view a webinar explaining the research here
Address: 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Phone: 386-226-6100

 

VenkteshPandey 
Venktesh Pandey
Dr. Venktesh Pandey is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering at N.C. A&T. His research integrates intelligent transportation systems and emerging mobility services in traffic operations, congestion pricing, and transportation planning models with a focus on sustainability.
Address: 1601 E. Market St., McNair Hall 434, Greensboro, NC 27411
Phone:(336)-334-7575  
Email: vpandey@ncat.edu  

 

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Hyoshin Park
Dr. Hyoshin (John) Park is an assistant professor specializing in transportation at N.C. A&T State University. Dr. Park ’s research expertise lies in decision making under uncertainty into transportation system analytics and network modeling. His current research interest covers several multidisciplinary areas in Transportation Engineering; including technologies in road-side sensors, emergency response, safety; focusing on operational learning in stochastic, and dynamic systems; and developing Artificial intelligence (AI)-based decision tools. His AI algorithms have been applied to emergency response systems in Bluetooth sensor deployment in I-95 Corridor Coalition, Maryland Coordinated Highways Action Response Team (CHART), NASA JPL-Caltech Robots, and connected vehicle traffic signal operations. You can view a webinar Park conducted on "Collaborative multimodal decision-making with advanced transportation technologies and computing" here. 
Address: 1601 E. Market Street
Fort Interdisciplinary Research Center 303
Greensboro NC 27411
Phone:
336-285-2763
Email:
hpark1@ncat.edu

 

Scott Parr
Scott Parr
Dr. Scott Parr, Ph.D., P.E. is a professional engineer and assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the Department of Civil Engineering. Dr. Parr co-founded and chairs the Joint Subcommittee for Emergency Response AMR00(1), within the Transportation Research Board. He earned his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Louisiana StateUniversity specializing in Transporta ion Engineering and Emergency Management. Dr. Parr has dedicated his career to advocating and advancing the cause of emergency responder safety within transportation engineering.
Address: Daytona Beach Campus
College of Engineering
Leman 321
1 Aerospace Boulevard
Daytona Beach, Florida 32114
Phone: 386-226-6100

 

Rafael Patrick 
Rafael Patrick
Dr. Patrick is a research assistant professor within the Grado Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech associated with the Human Factors and Ergonomics group. His research interest falls within the midpoint of cognitive psychology and systems engineering specializing in human-machine system performance within complex environments.
Address: 516 Whittemore Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: 540-231-2788
Fax: 540-231-3322
Email: RNCP@vt.edu 

 

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Xiuli (Shelly) Qu
Dr. Qu is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at N.C. A&T State University . Her research interests focuses on the applications of optimization and systems engineering tools in complex systems, such as emergency response systems.
Address: 1601 E. Market Street
424 McNair Hall 
Greensboro, NC 27411
Phone: 336-285-3733 
Fax: 336-334-7729
Email: xqu@ncat.edu

  

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Ryoichi Sakano
Dr. Sakano is an associate professor at N.C. A&T State University. His research areas include travel demand analysis, congestion pricing, paratransit demand, and system analysis, public transit efficiency, and productivity, and airline scheduling. He has published in many peer reviewed journals including Transportation Research Part A, Transportation Research Part E, Transportation Research Record, and Transport Policy.
Address: 1601 E. Market Street
120 Merrick Hall 
Greensboro, NC 27411
Phone: 336-285-3355
Fax: 336-256-2055 (Prefers to receive scanned documents.)
Email: sakanory@ncat.edu

 

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Younho Seong
Dr. Seong is an associate professor of Industrial Systems Engineering at N.C. A&T State University. His series of work on human judgment and decision-making with and trust in autonomous decision aids has been widely cited by the human cognition community as a way to improve human performance by making decision aids “more transparent.”
Address: 1601 E. Market Street
422-A McNair Hall 
Greensboro, NC 27411
Phone: 336-285-3734
Email: yseong@ncat.edu 

 

Houbing Song
Houbing Song
Dr. Song is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, Florida. He is the Director of the Security and Optimization for Networked Globe Laboratory (SONG Lab, www.SONGLab.us). My current research activities are focused on advances in several fields of rapid technology development, notably AI/machine learning, cybersecurity and privacy, and cyber-physical systems/internet of things. You can view a webinar discussing his area of research here
Address: 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114

 

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Sun Yi
Dr. Yi is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at N.C. A&T State University. His research interests include the development of methods for analysis and control algorithms of dynamic systems. He has managed research projects in various areas including networked autonomous vehicle systems and adaptive control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. You can view a webinar discussing his area of research here
Address: 1601 E. Market Street
604 McNair Hall
Greensboro, NC 27411
Phone: 336-285-3753
Fax: 336-334-7417
Email: syi@ncat.edu

 

Scott Winter
Scott R. Winter
Dr. Winter is an assistant professor of Graduate Studies in the School of Graduate Studies, College of Aviation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach. His research interests are in the areas of human factors, automation, trust, aviation, and transportation.
Address:
 1 Aerospace Blvd.
Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Phone: 
386-226-6491
Email:
 scott.winter@erau.edu