Professor
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, TN, United States
Professor Asad Khattak received his master’s and doctoral degrees in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He is currently the Beaman Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Tennessee (UT) and serves as (i) Coordinator for the Transportation Group (6 faculty members) in the department; ii) Principal Investigator for UT in the National University Transportation Center partnership led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; iii) Coordinator and lead researcher for “Big Data for Safety Monitoring, Assessment, and Improvement,” a multi-year Southeastern Transportation Center UTC project sponsored by the US Department of Transportation; and (iv) Co-Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Mobility.
He is affiliated with the UT Center for Transportation Research as well as the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, where he works on a broad range of research and educational projects sponsored by state and federal agencies. He teaches courses and conducts research related to intelligent transportation systems, transportation safety, and transportation planning.
Khattak has 30 years of research and teaching experience in the transportation field. Before joining UT, during 2006-2013, he was Frank Batten endowed chair Professor of Civil Engineering at Old Dominion University where he developed and directed ODU’s transportation research initiatives and educational programs. His research expertise relates to various types of innovations related to intelligent transportation systems, transportation safety, and sustainable transportation.
Additionally, he has authored/co-authored 172 articles and reports (114 scholarly journal articles and 61 technical reports to research sponsors). He has given 155 presentations at international conferences and as invited talks. He has been invited internationally to work at University of Oxford in England, the French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research, known as INRETS, Ajou University in South Korea, & University of Aveiro, Portugal. As a principal- or co-investigator, he has successfully obtained 66 sponsored research and educational projects. He serves as: 1) Editor-in-Chief of Science Citation Indexed Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2) Associate Editor of SCI-indexed International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 3) Special adviser to the Journal of Transportation Safety and Security, & on the Advisory Board Member of Analytic Methods in Accident Research.
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