Doctoral Students

Gulsevi Basar, M.S.

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M.Sc. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Colorado State University - Pueblo, CO, USA, 2013.
B.Sc. in IE, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2012.
Miss Basar is currently a PhD student in the Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering, and a researcher at the TRI.
August, 2013.
Traffic operations, toll pricing mechanisms, microscopic simulations.

Olcay Sahin, M.S.

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M.Sc. in MSVE, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA, 2012.
MBA, Strayer University, Anne Arundel, MD,USA, 2008.
B.Sc. in IE, International Black Sea University, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2005.
Mr. Sahin is currently a PhD student in the Department of Civil Engineering, and a researcher at the TRI.
January, 2016.
Data mining, machine learning, big data, GIS based spatial analysis, ITS, traffic operations, traffic safety, autonomous vehicles.
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Cem Sazara, M.S.

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M.Sc. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Colorado State University - Pueblo, CO, USA, 2015.
B.Sc. in Electrical-Electronics Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011.
Mr. Sazara is currently a PhD student in the Department of Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Engineering, and a researcher at the TRI.
August, 2015.
ITS, autonomous vehicles, LIDAR technology, data analysis.

Ehsan Beheshtitabar, M.S.

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M.Sc. in Transportation Systems Engineering, Linkoping University,Linkoping, Sweden, 2013.
M.Sc. in Intelligent Transport Systems, University of Applied Science Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2013.
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, University of Yazd, Iran, 2010.
Mr. Beheshtitabar is currently a PhD student in the Department of Civil Engineering in ODU, and a researcher at the TRI.
January, 2016.
Traffic flow theory, Transport systems, Travel behavior, Transport modelling and simulation

Behrouz Salahshour, M.S.

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Mr. Salahshour is currently a PhD student in the Department of Civil Engineering in ODU, and a researcher at the TRI.
January, 2017.
Traffic flow theory, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Single and multi-objective Meta-heuristic Optimization , Transport modelling and simulation

Giridhar Kattepogu, M.S.

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M.Sc. in Transportation Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Mr. Giridhar is currently a PhD student in the Department of Civil Engineering in ODU, and a researcher at the TRI.
August , 2018.
Traffic flow theory, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Single and multi-objective Meta-heuristic Optimization , Transport modelling and simulation

Master Students