Abolfazl ‘Kouros’ Mohammadian named UIC Distinguished Professor

Abolfazl “Kouros” Mohammadian,

Abolfazl “Kouros” Mohammadian, professor and department head of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering, has been named a 2024-25 UIC Distinguished Professor. The professorship was created to recruit and recognize persons who have made a significant impact on their field through scholarship, creativity, and leadership at UIC.

Mohammadian’s research has covered various areas of transportation systems engineering, modeling and simulation, travel behavior analysis, travel demand forecasting, travel survey methods, and freight and logistics modeling. He is well known for using computational methods for advancing transportation system operations and mobility of people and goods for the next generations of infrastructure systems.