Speaker Bio

Mohamed Ahmed

Associate Professor

University of Wyoming

Dr. Mohamed M Ahmed, PE is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Wyoming (UW). He is also the Director of the Simulation and Human Factors for Connected and Automated Vehicles Lab at UW. Dr. Ahmed has over 18 years of practical and research experiences in the field of transportation engineering with a focus on traffic safety. His research interests include traffic safety analysis, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Connected and Automated Vehicles, Naturalistic Driving, and statistical and Big Data analytics. Since joining the University of Wyoming, Dr. Ahmed has managed 24 research projects sponsored by a diversity of national and regional funding sources including the US-Department of Transportation (USDOT) - the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2), the Wyoming DOT, and the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security with a total budget of more than $8.5 million (~$2.7 million share). Dr. Ahmed has published more than 125 high-profile scientific articles and technical reports, (Citations ~850, h-Index 13). He supervised to graduation 14 PhD and MS students and currently advising 13 PhD, MS students, and Postdoctoral Associates. Dr. Ahmed is a leading traffic safety expert at both the national and international levels. He is a member of the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) committee on Safety Data Analysis and Evaluation, and a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) committee on Surrogate Measures of Safety. He and his students have received multiple research awards from the TRB (best paper award), ITE (best student of the year), ITS Florida, and the College of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Central Florida (award for excellence in teaching), among others.