Civil & Environmental Engineering transportation candidate — Automated Vehicle Technology
About the event
Title: Automated vehicle technology – Assessment of emerging safety hazards
Bio: Kakan Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Wadsworth Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at West Virginia University (WVU). He received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Clemson University in 2014 and earned his M.Sc. in civil engineering from Wayne State University in 2010. He is the recipient of the Clemson University 2016 Distinguished Postdoctoral Award and the IEEE George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award. He is a standing committee member of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications Committee (AED50), TRB Vehicle-Highway Automation Committee (ACP30), and the ASCE TDI Committee on Freight and Logistics. He published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and two book chapters. In addition, he is the co-editor of the textbook Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems, published by Elsevier. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IET Intelligent Transport Systems Journal. He leads the Connected and Automated Transportation Systems (CATS) Lab at WVU. Dr. Dey is an ASCE Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Fellow.