ABOUT ITSS
Technical Activities
VP Technical Activities

Yaobin Chen
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Purdue School of Engineering & Technology
United States
Technical Activities is a very important leg of every technical association, IEEE and ITSS in particular. Most of us, we are technicians, engineers, scientists, professors, etc. within a wide range of topics related to Intelligent Transportation.
Technical Activities are all the collective activities that we organize as an association, such as Special Sessions, Workshops or Tutorials, at conferences; Public Demos; Disseminate Activities, to let the Big Public be aware of what’s the buzz at ITS; Challenges or Competitions; Summer Schools and more. As volunteers, we like to contribute to the community dedicating some of our time to organize all of that, because we like it!
Technical Activities Committee (TAC)
Chair:
Yaobin Chen,
Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI, Indianapolis, USA.
Vice Chair:
Javier Sanchez Medina,
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Members:
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Fernando Garcia Fernandez,
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain -
Jim Misener,
Qualcomm, USA -
Cristina Olaverri-Monreal,
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria -
Alexander Paz,
Queensland University of Technology, Australia -
Simona Sacone,
University of Genova, Italy -
Silvia Siri,
University of Genova, Italy -
Eleni I. Vlahogianni,
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Technical Committees (TC)
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Artificial Transportation Systems and Simulation
Chair:
Rosaldo J. F. Rossetti, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Co-chairs:
Sharron Tang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Fenghua Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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Cooperative and Connected Vehicles
Chair:
Li Li, Tsinghua University, China
Co-chair:
Onur Altintas, Toyota InfoTechnology Center, Japan
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Human Factors in ITS
Chair:
Cristina Olaverri-Monreal, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Austria
Co-Chair:
Renran Tian, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. Indianapolis, USA
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Planning and Control of Transportation and Logistic Networks
Chair:
Simona Sacone
Co-Chair:
Silvia Siri
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Naturalistic Driving Data Analytics
Chair:
Pujitha Gunaratne, Toyota Technical Center, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A
Co-Chair:
Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan
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TC on Railroad Systems and Applications
Chair:
Hairong (Heidy) Dong, Beijing Jiaotong University
Co-Chair:
Clive Roberts, The University of Birmingham
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Self Driving Automobiles
Chair:
Christoph Stiller, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
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Smart Mobility and Transportation 5.0
Chair:
Eleni I. Vlahogianni, Ph.D., National Technical University of Athens
Co-Chairs:
Srikanth
Jiaqi Ma
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Traffic and Travel Management
Chair:
Heng Wei, University of Cincinnati
Co-Chairs:
Xuesong Zhou, Arizona State University
Javier J. Sánchez Medina, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Special Interest Groups
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Intelligence and Security Information for Transportation Systems
Chair:
Samy El-tawab, James Madison University, USA
Co-Chairs:
Puya Ghazizadeh, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, USA.
Ahmad Salman, James Madison University, USA.