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Prof. Dr. S. Travis Waller

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Visiting address:

Gerhart-Potthoff-Bau, POT 003 Hettnerstraße 1-3

01069 Dresden

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
Transportation Research Board (TRB)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management (AITPM)
Committee Research Coordinator (CRC) to the Standing Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (AEP40) for the U.S. Transportation Research Board (TRB, a Division of the U.S. National Academies)

Northwestern University	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	2000 – 2001
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Assistant Professor	2001 – 2003
University of Texas at Austin	Assistant Professor	2003 – 2007
University of Texas at Austin	Assoc. Prof. (promoted to Professor at UT in 2011)	2007 – 2011
University of Texas at Austin	Adjunct Professor	2011 – 2012
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney	Professor and Evans & Peck Chair of Transport Innovation	2011 – 2015
UNSW, Sydney	Professor and Advisian Chair of Transport Innovation	2015 – 2020
UNSW, Sydney	Professor and Head of School	2020 – 2022
UNSW, Sydney	Honorary Professor	2022–Present
Australian National University	Professor	2022–Present
Technische Unverstät Dresden	Lighthouse Professor, Chair of Transport Modelling and Simulation	2022–Present

University of Texas: Center for Transportation and Electricity Convergence (U.S. NSF IUCRC)	Founding Director & Lead Investigator	2010 – 2011
University of Texas: Network Modeling Center	Founding Director	2010 – 2011
Res. Ctr. for Integrated Transport Innov. (rCITI)	Founding Director	2011 – 2018
UNSW rCITI UNSW School of Civil and Enviro. Engineering	Executive Director Deputy Head of School (Research)	2018 – 2020 2016 – 2018
UNSW Engineering	Deputy Dean (Research)	2018 – 2020
UNSW School of Civil and Enviro. Engineering	Head of School	2020 – 2022

The Ohio State University	Electrical Engineering	BSc.	1997
Northwestern University	Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences	MSc.	1999
Northwestern University	Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences	Ph.D.	2000

Selected by MIT’s Technology Review Magazine as one of the Top 100 Young (under 35) Innovators in Science and Engineering in the World (TR100)	2003
U.S. National Sciences Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award	2004
Annual New Faculty Award sponsored by the Council of University Transportation Centers and the American Road and Transportation Builders Association	2006
Fellow of Clyde E. Lee Endowed Professorship in Transportation Engineering (UT)	2006 – 2008
Phil M. Ferguson Teaching Fellowship in Civil Engineering (UT)	2008 – 2011
Fred Burggraf Award by the U.S. Transportation Research Board	2009
Hojjat Adeli Award for Innovation in Computing	2012
C.C. Mei Distinguished Lecture at MIT	2016
Pyke Johnson Award (Transportation Research Board; Div. of U.S. National Academy)	2019
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia	2021

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