EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Civil
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982.
MS.C.E., Purdue University, 1978.
B.S.C.E., University of Houston, 1976.
RESEARCH, TEACHING, AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani is the first holder of the Charles Irish Sr. Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he is also the founding Director of the Maryland Transportation Initiative, a new cross-disciplinary institute for transportation systems research and education. He joined the University of Maryland in August 2002, after 20 years on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was most recently the A. Abou-Ayyash Centennial Professor in Transportation Engineering, Professor of Management Science and Information Systems and Director of the Advanced Institute for Transportation Infrastructure Engineering and Management. He specializes in multimodal transportation systems analysis, planning and operations, dynamic network modeling and optimization, transit network planning and design, dynamics of user behavior and telematics, telecommunication-transportation interactions, large-scale human infrastructure systems, and real-time operation of logistics and distribution systems.
Dr. Mahmassani received his PhD in Transportation Systems from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 and MS in Transportation Engineering
from Purdue in 1978. He chairs several technical and professional committees
in the US and internationally, and is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of Transportation
Science, and Associate Editor of Transportation Research C (Emerging Technologies)
as well as the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He serves
on the editorial boards of the major transportation journals. He has served
as the Paper Review Chair of the Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics of
the Transportation Research Board since 1989, and is the immediate past president
of that committee. He is a past president of the Transportation Science Section
of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, and the
immediate past President of the International Association for Travel Behavior
Research. He has published over 175 refereed articles and conference proceedings,
and over 100 technical reports. He has served as Principal investigator on over
95 funded research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, The
Advanced Technology Program, General Motors Research Laboratories, Texas Department
of Transportation, Texas Governor's Office, Capital Metropolitan Transportation
Authority, U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration,
and served as consultant to several companies and government agencies in the
areas of transportation modeling, operations, logistics and intelligent transportation
systems. He has served in an advisory capacity to various institutes and programs,
and has performed several program assessments of leading international research
institutes and corporate R&D departments.