Interdisciplinary Intelligent Transportation Systems: Traffic Control and Travel Time Dynamics
CME Department Seminar
October 22, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM America/Chicago
Presenter: Pushkin Kachroo, PhD, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Location: ERF 1047 or Zoom
Meeting ID: 867 9009 6983
Passcode: qn15Rgha
Abstract: The talk will illustrate the highly interdisciplinary nature of Intelligent Transportation Systems, and this will be presented in the context of some specific problem statements and their solutions the speaker has been involved in. Specifically some mathematical and modeling details will be shown about vehicle and traffic control problems, as well as the fundamental theory of travel time dynamics that the speaker is the founder of.
Speaker Bio: Professor Pushkin Kachroo is the Lincy chaired professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of California at Berkeley performing research in vehicle control, and obtained another Ph.D. in mathematics from Virginia Tech in the area of hyperbolic system of partial differential equations with applications to traffic control and evacuation. He is finishing his Ph.D. in physics from UNLV on the topic of travel time dynamics. He has been a professor at Virginia Tech, a visiting professor at University of California at Berkeley, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Delhi, as well as IIT Jammu. He is also on a three week visiting position at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His M.S. degrees are from Rice University, Virginia Tech, and UNLV, and his B.Tech. from IIT Bombay in civil engineering. He is finishing another M.S. degree from IIT Delhi in traffic safety. He has published more than 200 journal and conference papers, including eleven books and four collected volumes.
Date posted
Oct 16, 2025
Date updated
Oct 16, 2025