Daniel Work

Daniel Work is a Chancellor Faculty Fellow and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, and the Institute for Software Integrated Systems at Vanderbilt University. He directs the Work Research Group, focusing on transportation cyber-physical systems (CPS), traffic flow modeling, and autonomous vehicle technologies. His work includes pioneering methods to eliminate phantom traffic jams using automated vehicles and leading the I-24 MOTION project, a large-scale testbed for connected and autonomous vehicles.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Systems Engineering, UC Berkeley (2010)
• MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley (2007)
• B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ohio State University (2006)

Research Interests:

• Autonomous vehicle control and traffic wave smoothing
• Data analytics for transportation systems
• Freight rail and urban mobility optimization
• Human-in-the-loop CPS applications

Awards:

• 2018 NAE Gilbreth Lectureship
• 2014 NSF CAREER Award
• IEEE ITS Society Best Dissertation (2011)
• Featured in Scientific American and ABC's Good Morning America

Labs & Projects:

• I-24 MOTION Testbed: 17-mile freeway instrumented with 300+ cameras
• CIRCLES Consortium: Mixed-autonomy traffic control
• AI Decision Support System for Integrated Corridor Management