Presenter Bios: 2009 National Highway Data Workshop and Conference (HiDaC)

Alexandre Bayen received the Engineering Degree in applied mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique, France, in July 1998, the M.S. degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in June 1999, and the Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in December 2003. He was a Visiting Researcher at NASA Ames Research Center from 2000 to 2003. Between January 2004 and December 2004, he worked as the Research Director of the Autonomous Navigation Laboratory at the Laboratoire de Recherches Balistiques et Aerodynamiques, (Ministere de la Defense, Vernon, France), where he holds the rank of Major. He has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley since January 2005. He is the recipient of the Ballhaus Award from Stanford University, 2004. The project Mobile Century for which he was the Principal Investigator received the 2008 Best of ITS Award for ‘Best Innovative Practice’, at the ITS World Congress. He is the recipient of the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, 2009. The project Mobile Millennium for which he is the Principal Investigator received a TRANNY award from the California Transportation Foundation, 2009,l and has been featured already on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNET, NPR, KGO, and the BBC. Bayen has authored more than 80 technical publications.

Joe Butler has been involved in developing and managing the development of software systems for over 30 years. He currently works at CCIT providing project and systems management functions for the Mobile Millennium project. Prior to his work in the intelligent transportation arena Joe developed business intelligence/data warehousing solutions for the insurance industry. He is looking forward to providing operations centers and individual drivers with advanced routing information generated from data sourced from GPS enabled cell phones and existing fixed sensors.

Chris Chang currently manages the HERS-ST Program in the FHWA's Officeof Asset Management. Chris Chang comes from the FHWA's Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division (EFLHD) in Sterling, VA where he led the maintenance and operation of the pavement management system for the National Park Service and performed oversight on pavement design for various Federal Land Management Agencies. He has been with the FHWA since 2001.

Ben Chen is the Manager of MS2 located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ben has 20 years experience in transportation projects including extensive experience developing innovative data collection methods and management systems. He has developed and implemented various systems for numerous state DOTs, MPOs, county road agencies, and city engineering departments. He leads the firm's practice in developing and supporting a web-based Transportation Data Management System, currently being used by more than 80 agencies in 20 states as well as Canada. Ben received his M.S. in Civil Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Michigan and a certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineers (PTOE). For more information about MS2, visit www.ms2soft.com.

Bill Cloud, a 33 year employee of the Montana Department of Transportation, is Chief of the Data and Statistics Bureau. The first half of his career spanned the areas of materials testing, surveying, highway project construction and inspection, cost allocation studies, transit planning, federal aid programming, scenic byways, rest area planning, rural corridor planning, functional classification and systems development, urban and rural planning, and the Enhancement program. He is currently MDT's Chief of the Data and Statistics Bureau and generally oversees the highways side of data including traffic data collection and analysis, road inventory, GIS and mapping, highway systems and functional class records management, state fuel tax allocations, HPMS, transportation Needs studies, congestion management, and project history compilations. He has been actively involved with TRB over the past ten years. Bill has a BS in Agriculture Science form Montana State University-Bozeman.

Brian Domsic has been with Caltrans for over 26 years. He spent the first 13 of these years as a practicing Civil Engineer in Construction and Project Development. Therefore, he has ample experience with capital outlay projects. Brian has seen many jobs from the advanced planning stage through to the contract award and on to completion. Brian’s current position, which he has held for the past 13 years, involves maintaining the Highway Performance Monitoring System, a federally mandated program used to supply data for various planning studies and statistical reports. Working as a data base administrator has given him a good foundation for the development and implementation of data systems. He’s also done a significant amount of contracting with vendors for IT services as well as pavement condition and traffic counts. It is fair to say that Brian has an extensive background in data management. Mr. Domsic manages a staff of four. He has been a licensed P.E. since 1986.

Richard Fahey is a Senior Transportation Planner for Caltrans, working in the Office of Regional Planning. He handles GIS Coordination and supports responsibilities for the District Office. He is experienced in Environmental Planning, Transportation Planning, Travel Demand Forecasting, and GIS.

Michael Fay is currently the Supervisor of the Highway Data Section of the New York State Department of Transportation. Mike is responsible for the state and local highway inventories, system designations such as functional classification and NHS, and the Highway Performance Monitoring System activities in New York State. He also has primary responsibility for the development and administration of a new highway data management system for the State. Michael Fay started with the New York State DOT in 1985 and has worked in a variety of Planning and Engineering functions prior to joining the Highway Data Services Bureau in 1995. His responsibilities over the years have included traffic monitoring and pavement condition data collection as well as his current duties as head of the Highway Data Section within the Bureau.

Rodney Floyd has been with the Florida Department of Transportation for 22 years, and for the past 7 years has been the Manager of the Highway Data Collection and Quality Control Section in the Transportation Statistics Office. He oversees the Statewide Roadway Characteristics Inventory (RCI) data collection program, the Videolog Program, the Statewide quality assurance program and is responsible for the RCI training. Rodney has a degree in Computer Information Systems from Florida A & M University.

Len Konecny is Vice President of Business Development for Total Traffic Network, and has been with the company since 2000. Konecny has been involved in the aggregation, sales, management, and development of the company's traffic product over several mediums, including broadcast, web, mobile, and in-car and portable navigation. He is an 18-year veteran in the traffic industry. Konecny manages accounts with top executives and decision-makers for digital mapping companies, flow and probe data providers, application providers, and original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s), with whom he has teamed to strategize on how best to push quality content to the consumer, and how to best create a quality product that will provide short and long-term revenue opportunities. Konecny has been a loud voice in developing standardized quality initiatives for traffic data quality, and has been a strong advocate of the 'lifetime' or 'one-time' fee for products and services as built-ins to end-users. This business model has proved to be a successful means to generate high take rates for traffic content in navigation products, and has significantly increased traffic revenues for Clear Channel. Additionally, Konecny serves as the National Chairman for NATWG (North American Traffic Working Group) moderated by ITS America.

Rob Robinson has worked for the Illinois Department of Transportation for 26 years, and during the last 13 years he has been in charge of the Data Management area that has responsibility for HPMS, Traffic Count program, Road and Structure Inventory, and GIS. Rob has a degree in Mathematics from University of South Florida, and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Illinois.

Ms. Romell oversees the Regional Streets and Roads Program, transportation revenue forecasting and transit operating assistance programs for the San Francisco Bay Area transportation planning and financing agency. Prior to joining MTC in 2001, she worked as the operations manager for Nortel Networks’ West Coast logistical operating center. Theresa has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley and a Master’s in Business Administration from Cal Sate Hayward.

Robert Rozycki comes from an educational background in Civil Engineering and Planning and has been with FHWA since 1990; he has mostly worked in the HPMS area. Basic functions include the review of incoming State HPMS database files and associated quality control/analysis activities and various publication preparations. Areas of HPMS expertise include pavement related data items and the HPMS statistical sampling methodology. Current activities include the development and implementation of the HPMS 2010+ Reassessment and increasing GIS functionality

Dr. Scofield received his PhD in Physics from Brown University, for his work on computational models of the cat visual system. He was a visiting scholar at Brown's Center for Neural Science from 1990 – 1998, and director of search technology and advanced applications at Amazon.com from 1998-2008. Dr. Scofield is currently the Principal Scientist at INRIX, Inc. Dr. Scofield is the author of Neural Networks and Speech Processing, and over 40 technical articles and patents.

Sui Tan is the program manager of StreetSaver® pavement management software at the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. His responsibilities involve oversight and management of the software development team. Sui assists local agencies in assessing pavement conditions, developing repair strategies, and securing funds for local streets and roads. He co-chairs the Pavement Management Committee of the California Pavement Preservation Task Group. Prior to joining MTC, he was a senior transportation engineer with the Office of Local Assistance, Caltrans, helping local agencies with project delivery. Sui holds a B.S. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is a registered Civil Engineer in California.

Dr. Kristin Tufte, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor at Portland State University. She received her PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2005. At Portland State, Dr. Tufte works in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Lab in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and in the Department of Computer Science. At the ITS Lab, Dr. Tufte manages PORTAL—the official Archived Data User Service (ADUS) for the Portland metropolitan area. PORTAL consists of a one-terabyte archive of transportation-related data and a publicly-accessible web site. Dr. Tufte is currently leading a project to evaluate and improve the quality of the freeway loop detector data stored in PORTAL. In the Computer Science domain, Dr. Tufte specializes in database and data stream systems; her goals include applying data management technologies to problems in ITS.

Christopher Urkofsky, a Senior Transportation Surveyor with Caltrans, is Branch Chief for District 4 Right of Way Records and Survey Application Support. He is experienced with CAD, Survey Applications, GIS, and document management systems

Ron is the Manager of the Asset Management Section of the Bureau of Transportation Planning at the Michigan Department of Transportation. He has been with the Michigan DOT for over 32 years, and is currently on his fifth career there. He began by preparing environmental impact statements in the 1970's, and automating the AADT process in the PC environment, which was then just emerging. He later moved to an IT Liaison role, leading the data design for Michigan's programming data base and the 'Management Systems' database, which includes roadway, bridge, congestion, intermodal, public transportation, and safety systems, on an enterprise database using a uniform referencing system. Ron currently manages a section responsible for, among other things, maintaining the systems and database of the management systems, involving negotiation across traditional silos to maintain focus on the enterprise and strategic uses of data. Ron holds a Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Economics, and a Masters in Economics both from Central Michigan University.

Kane Wong is a Senior Transportation Engineer for Caltrans in the Department of Operations, with experience in Ramp Metering, Transportation Management Center, and the Freeway Service Patrol program. Hot projects are the Travel Time Signs, Smart Corridors, Express Lanes and Incident Management.

Dr. Xiao-Yun Lu, Research Engineer at PATH, U. C. Berkeley, with 25 year experience in System Modeling, Optimization, Measurement and Control, and Real-time Implementation; BSc. in Mathematics from Sichuan University in 1982; MSc. In Applied Mathematics from Institute of Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1985; PhD in Systems and Control from University of Manchester, U. K. in 1994; Joined PATH in 1999; Research includes Traffic Systems Monitoring, Modeling, and Control, Sensor Detection and Fusion, ITS Technologies and Application, Intermodal Transportation, Vehicle and Highway Automation, and Active Safety. He is a member of TRB Traffic Monitoring Committee (ABJ35) and TRB Joint Subcommittee on Active Traffic Management, and member of MTC Advisory Council. He has published over 100 papers in world leading journals and conferences.

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