Finishing Fall 2019 Kent Seminar with a bang

The Fall 2019 Kent Seminar Series is finishing up yet another exciting season.

Graduate students, faculty and transportation professionals presented on a variety of topics, including the following (listed in chronological order):

• Antoine Petit, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign doctoral student, “Multiline bus bunching control via vehicle substitution.”
• Greg Renshaw, Illinois Center for Transportation senior research engineer, “Annual advanced transportation research and engineering laboratory safety training.”
• Roberto Montemayor, UIUC master’s student, “Past, present and future of cellular concrete.”
• Naira Hovakimyan, UIUC W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor, “Aerial co-robots of the future: Safety, intelligence, certification.”
• Amit Bhasin, The University of Texas at Austin professor, “Reversing paradigms: Performance prediction to material design for our roadway infrastructure.”
• Qingwen Zhou, UIUC doctoral student, “Life cycle assessment on pavement preservation and maintenance schedules.”
• Richard Sowers, UIUC professor, “Big data and mobility: A mathematician looks at traffic.”
• Bin Feng, UIUC doctoral student, “Discrete element modeling of the ballast’s dynamic behavior.”
• Abbas Kachwalla, AECOM pavement engineer, “Development of a machine-learning-based quality control approach for automated-pavement condition data.”

Next week, we’re thrilled to bring in The University of Texas at Austin Distinguished Teaching Professor Chandra Bhat as our Distinguished Kent Seminar Series Speaker. Bhat will present “Autonomous vehicle use and potential changes in commute patterns.”

Join us Monday, Nov. 4, at 3 p.m. for a reception followed by Bhat’s lecture at 4 p.m. in the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory’s seminar room 1000, which is located on the first floor across from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering on the Engineering Quad.

This lecture will not be broadcasted live, but will uploaded at a later date to Illinois Center for Transportation’s YouTube channel. Don’t forget to subscribe!

We would like to thank our Kent presenters for sharing their research and knowledge this semester!