Lab Director
Mohamadhossein Noruzoliaee, Ph.D.
Dr. Mohamadhossein (Hossein) Noruzoliaee is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where he also serves as the Founding Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CREST Center for Multidisciplinary Research Excellence in Cyber-physical Infrastructure Systems (MECIS). He received his Ph.D. degree in civil (transportation) engineering in 2018 from the University of Illinois Chicago. His research focuses on transportation cyber-physical systems, including connected and autonomous transportation, resilient and sustainable critical infrastructure, and smart freight logistics. From methodological perspective, his research has an interdisciplinary nature, integrating artificial intelligence and operations research with multiple subfields in transportation science, including transportation network modeling, traffic flow theory, and travel behavior and demand modeling. Dr. Noruzoliaee also serves as a Voting Member of the ASCE T&DI Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence. |