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Education
Ph. D. in Transportation Systems (2004)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: On-line calibration for Dynamic Traffic Assignment
M. S. in Transportation (1997)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Demand simulation for Dynamic Traffic Assignment
Diploma of Civil Engineering (1995)
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Research interests
• Modeling and simulation of transportation systems, with an emphasis on behavioral aspects and demand modeling
• Big transport data and transport data analytics
• Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), including user acceptance and perception
• Calibration and optimization applications, with an emphasis on derivative-free, large scale algorithms for stochastic, noisy systems
• Road safety
• Statistics and econometrics models and their applications
Editorial boards/Scientific committee membership
• Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
• Editorial board of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
• Editorial board of Accident Analysis and Prevention
• Editorial board of the Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Deputy Editor-in-Chief IET Intelligent Transport Systems
• Associate Editor Transportation Letters: The International Journal of Transportation Research
• Associate Editor EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
• Member of TRB committee ABJ70 - Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications
• Member of TRB committee AHB45 Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics
• Secretary of TRB committee AND20 - User Information Systems (until April 2017)
• Member of TRB Task Force on System Simulation (AHB80T) (until 2019)
• Member of TRB Task Force on Data Privacy, Security and Protection Policy (ABJ55T)
• Member of FGSV Committee 3.10 “Theoretical foundations of road traffic” (Theoretische Grundlagen des Straßenverkehrs)
Selected Awards
• 1997 Milton Pikarsky Award for an outstanding MS thesis
• 2011 IEEE ITS OUTSTANDING APPLICATION AWARD (FOR DYNAMIT DTA MODEL)
• “2018 Best Simulation Paper award" from the Transportation Research Boqrd of the US National Academies of Science for the paper: Prakash, A. A., R. Seshadri, C. Antoniou, F. C. Pereira and M. Ben-Akiva (2018). Improving scalability of generic online calibration of dynamic traffic assignment systems. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board.
Professional memberships
• Transportation Research Board (TRB)
• Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE)
• Hellenic Association of Civil Engineers (ΣΠΜΕ)
• Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers (HITE/ΣΕΣ) (Special Secretary (2008-2010), General Secretary (2010-2012), Vice-President (2012-2014), President (2014-2016))