MTI Distinguished Lecture Series: Cynthia Chen

As part of MTI's Distinguished Lecture Series, Dr. Cynthia Chen will present a two-part seminar covering the promise of emerging data for transportation applications and the National Science Foundation Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) program and related initiatives.

On Thursday (June 6) at 10:30, Dr. Chen will present recent projects conducted at the THINK LAB at the University of Washington. The focus will be on how emerging data and the devices that generate them will allow us to answer new questions and explore new frontiers in transportation planning and related fields. Limitations of these datasets and related research questions are also to be discussed.

This seminar will take place at 10:30-11:45am on June 6, 2019in Room 1101 in the A. James Clark Hall building and will be followed by a networking reception.

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About the Speaker

Cynthia Chen is a professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Washington (UW). From 2016 to present, Dr. Chen is also the program director of the Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) program in the Division of Civil, Mechanical & Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) at the National Science Foundation. At UW, Dr. Chen directs the THINK (Transportation-Human Interaction-and- Network Knowledge) lab where she and her students study the sustainability and resilience of a city through the lens of human beings’ interacting with the physical infrastructures and the built environment. The work of THINK lab is highly interdisciplinary, drawing on the latest methods and ideas in disciplines from social and natural sciences to engineering. She is an associate director of the USDOT-supported TOMNET (Teaching Old Models New Tricks) center and an associate editor for Transportation.

Published May 30, 2019