Nomination of Kenan Zhang and promotion of Nikolas Geroliminis
Kenan Zhang and Nikolas Geroliminis. © 2021 EPFL
The ENAC Faculty strengthens its competences in the field of transportation with the nomination of Kenan Zhang as Tenure Track Assistant Professor and the promotion of Nikolas Geroliminis as Full Professor.
Nomination
Dr Kenan Zhang, currently Research Assistant at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)
Kenan Zhang’s research looks at transport management, with particular reference to newly emerging mobility services, autonomous vehicles and machine learning in transport. In her work, she combines her specialist knowledge of engineering and transport with her statistical skills. Her research interests are a match with the school’s interdisciplinary approach and its emphasis on the digitalisation of urban infrastructures. This up-and-coming researcher also contributes to quantifying the potential of innovations for improving urban mobility, efficiency and sustainability.
Entry into office: 1st September 2023
Promotion
Professor Nikolas Geroliminis, currently Associate Professor at EPFL, as Full Professor of Transport Engineering in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)
Nikolas Geroliminis is consistently working on challenging problems with strong theoretical underpinnings, advancing the field through theoretical as well as methodological contributions that reflect developments in technology and the social context in which transportation systems operate. He has an extensive record of innovative, trend-setting and outstanding research contributions that is marked by its combination of breadth and depth, spanning across traffic modeling, traffic control, network systems, optimization and on-demand transportation. Nikolas Geroliminis' research offers an all-in-one solution for monitoring and analyzing mobility at large-scale in a fast, reliable, accurate and high-quality approach to identify the sources of congestion and offer advanced traffic management and mobility solutions. Among his recent initiatives is the creation of an open-science large-scale dataset of naturalistic urban trajectories of half a million vehicles that have been collected by one-of-a-kind experiment by a swarm of drones ( https://open-traffic.epfl.ch). Among other editorial responsibilities, he is currently the Editor-In-Chief of Transportation Research part C: Emerging Technologies, one of the leading journals in the field of transportation.
Entry into office: 1st Januar 2022