De’Von Jennings has been awarded the HDR Transportation Scholarship for 2020. The scholarship committee granted two $10,000 scholarships to two exceptional graduate-level students associated with the transportation engineering industry. Along with the scholarship, De’Von is also offered a paid internship at HDR. Congratulations!
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Farzana Khatun, a 4th year PhD candidate of Transportation Science at ITS Irvine, has been selected to receive Women Transportation Seminar (WTS) 2019 graduate scholarship from Orange County (OC) chapter. WTS OC chapter provides multiple scholarships in four different divisions (graduate, undergraduate, community college and high school) to encourage girls and women in Southern California to pursue careers in transportation. The award will be presented to the winners at the Awards and Scholarship Gala at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel in Anaheim on Thursday, December 5, 2019. Under the supervision of Professor Jean-Daniel Saphores, Farzana is currently working on projects that focus on bus transit ridership of Orange County, travel behavior of Uber and Lyft users in California and in USA, active transportation and GIS application in transportation planning. Please also check out her WTS interview here.
The paper “Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Traffic Data with Deep Embedded Clustering” by Reza Asadi and Professor Amelia Regan has won the best paper reward at ACM PredictGIS 2019 Workshop.
Farzana Khatun won an award for securing the 2nd highest score at the doctoral level abstract in the International Conference on Transport and Health (ICTH) 2019 that held between 4th to 8th November in Melbourne, Australia. Her study, tilted as “DON’T HOP ON THE BUS GUS: An Analysis of recent changes in bus ridership in Orange County, California”, focused on how recent (2014 to 2015) changes in OCTA bus ridership can be explained by the implementation of California Assembly-Bill 60 (AB-60), after controlling for changes in transit supply, socio-economic variables, gas prices, and the built environment.
UC Irvine team “Traffic Flaw Theory” is the WINNER of TRANSFOR19. The team consisted Dr. Jared Sun (System Manager), Yiqiao Li (PhD Student), Pratiik Malik (PhD Student), Lu Xu (PhD student) and Dr. Qinglong Yan (Recent PhD graduate) at ITS-Irvine.
The international competition challenged the teams to develop short-term traffic forecasting models to predict the five-minute average speed on a road section along Chang’an North Road in Xi’an, China. The dataset is provided by DiDi Chuxing Technology Co., a Chinese ride-sharing company through Gaia Open Data Initiative. The submissions are evaluated based on prediction accuracy (50%), degree on novelty (25%), quality of the code (10%), and quality of the presentation (15%).
With the highest prediction accuracy, ITS-Irvine teams ranked #1 in the pre-selection stage and finished top after the final presentation at TRB 2019 Workshop 1058 “Big Data Without Machine Learning Is Just Lots of Data: A Guided Tour to Big Data and Machine Learning”.
The competition was organized by the TRB committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (ABJ70) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE’s) Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Technical Activities Sub-Committee “Smart Cities and Smart Mobility” and sponsored by DiDi Chuxing, a Chinese ride-sharing and technology firm.
The TRB paper “Individual Truck Speed Estimation from Advanced Single Inductive Loops” by Yiqiao Li, Dr. Andre Tok, Prof. Ritchie, was selected as the best paper submitted to Travel Time, Speed, and Reliability Subcommittee (ABJ30(3)) in the 2019 Annual Meeting. Fifty-four Papers were evaluated based on the quality and impact of the work on practice and the research profession, and both the poster and written paper were reviewed. A certificate will be presented to the winners at the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting during ABJ30 subcommittee meeting.
The UCI Student Chapter of the Institution of Transportation Engineers (ITE) competed in the event of the year, the Annual ITE SoCal/OCTEC Student Presentation Night at the Knotts Berry Farm Hotel on May 16, 2018. Their presentation, entitled “Deployment Readiness of Current Connected Vehicle Technology,” was awarded 2nd place by the panel of judges, and the Chapter received $2200 in prize money for future Chapter activities. This year’s project was conducted in collaboration with the City of Anaheim, and in particular utilized the new UCI/Anaheim Connected Vehicle Testbed and 15 intersections instrumented with Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) for V2I communication.
The winners were:
1. Cal Poly Pomona
2. UC Irvine
3. UCLA
Honorable Mentions: Cal State Long Beach, USC, Cal State Fullerton.
Congratulations to the whole UCI ITE Student Chapter and especially to tonight’s undergraduate presenters: Enrique Ortiz, Yana Loginova, Julia Milano, and Mareeya Tongkul.
The EU-funded competition TRA VISIONS 2018 has just awarded prizes to its young researcher winners at the end of the Opening Ceremony on Monday 16th April (12-12:30pm) of the 2018 Transport Research Arena (TRA 2018). Young researchers from all over Europe submitted innovative concepts in order to enhance smart, sustainable and integrated transport and mobility of people and goods.
Overall, 169 young researchers from 56 different European universities participated in the TRA VISIONS 2018 Student Competition and submitted 122 ideas for the transport modes road, rail, waterborne and cross-modal.
The TRA VISIONS 2018 Young Researchers Competition awarded prizes sponsored by industry (ALICE, ERTRAC, Meyer Werft, SHIFT2RAIL and UITP). In the road sector, the winners were Mareike Hedderich from Munich University of the Federal Armed Forces (Park Spot Routing), Irene Martinez from Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya (Location of Variable Speed Limit application area to avoid capacity drop) and Federico Perrotta from University of Nottingham (Evaluation of road pavements fuel efficiency using truck sensors data).
E-Week at the Samueli School of Engineering kicked off with a splash on Monday, Feb. 12, when the Engineering Student Council (ESC) hosted a dunk tank. Presented by ESC, E-Week is an annual event aimed at increasing public awareness and appreciation for the engineering profession. This year’s theme was “Engineers: Inspiring Wonder.”
Festivities wrapped up with the Engineering Awards Banquet on Friday in the Student Center, recognizing outstanding students, faculty and engineering student organizations. UCI Engineering Student Council recognized ITS Ph.D. student Koti Reddy Allu “student of the year” reward for excellence in undergraduate teaching CEE121.
The UC Merced Miguel Velez (MV) Scholarship is a prestigious award that provides students with an academic year scholarship. It is intended for Latin American graduate students who exhibit excellence in character and ability, and who demonstrate financial need.