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Efe Yamac Yarbasi

Dr. Yarbasi’s expertise lies in uncertainty quantification for complex systems, verification and validation (V&V) processes, robotics, energy systems modeling within smart building infrastructures, and systems engineering. Prior to joining U-M, he collaborated extensively with government and industry on a range of projects, including the development of a surgical endoscopy robot and the energy optimization of ...

Brian Lin

Dr. Brian Lin has 12 years of experience in automotive research at UMTRI after his Ph.D. His current research is focused on mining naturalistic driving data, evaluating driver assistance systems, modeling driver performance and behavior, and estimating driver distraction and workload, using statistical methods, classification, clustering, and survival analysis. His most recent work includes classifying ...

Wenbo Sun

Uncertainty quantification and decision making are increasingly demanded with the development of future technology in engineering and transportation systems. Among the uncertainty quantification problems, Dr. Wenbo Sun is particularly interested in statistical modelling of engineering system responses with considering the high dimensionality and complicated correlation structure, as well as quantifying the uncertainty from a variety ...

Tayo Fabusuyi

Tayo Fabusuyi is an assistant research scientist in the Human Factors Group at UMTRI. His research interests are in Urban Systems and Operations Research, specifically designing and implementing initiatives that support sustainable and resilient communities with a focus on efficiency and equity issues. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative data, his research develops and applies ...

Arpan Kusari

Dr. Arpan Kusari has joined UMTRI as an Assistant Research Scientist, a position where he will bring his cutting-edge industry experience. Dr. Kusari has spent five years at Ford Motor Company researching exclusively on making autonomous vehicles safe and viable, working collaboratively with researchers from MIT and University of Michigan to advance the state-of-the-art knowledge ...

Shan Bao

My research interests are to improve safety associated with motor-vehicle transportation by addressing both active safety (increased crash avoidance) and passive safety (increased crash protection) issues through the development and application of a wide range of research methodologies. These methodologies are targeted at developing a better understanding and modeling of driver behavior, including physical and ...

Carol Flannagan

As faculty member within the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Dr. Flannagan currently serves as Director of the Center for Management of Information for Safe and Sustainable Transportation (CMISST) and Head of the Statistics and Methods Group for the CDC-funded UM Injury Center. Dr. Flannagan has over 20 years of experience conducting data analysis ...

Henry Liu

Henry Liu, PhD, is Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering and holds a secondary appointment of Research Professor in the U-M Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Prof. Liu is also Director of the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (Regional 5 UTC). Prof. Liu’s research is in the areas of traffic network monitoring, ...

Jingwen Hu

Jingwen Hu, PhD, is Associate Research Scientist in the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) with a secondary appointment as Associate Research Scientist in Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The primary goal of Prof. Hu’s research is to reduce the incidence of injuries and fatalities in ...

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Shan Bao

Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan - Dearborn

Research Associate Professor, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, College of Engineering

Tayo Fabusuyi

Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Carol Flannagan

Research Professor of Biosciences, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Jingwen Hu

Research Professor, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, College of Engineering

Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

Arpan Kusari

Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Brian Lin

Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Henry Liu

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering

Director, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

Wenbo Sun

Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

Adjunct Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

Efe Yamac Yarbasi

Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute