Panos Michalopoulos Email & Phone Number

Dr Panos Michalopoulos has over 50 years of consulting, research, teaching ,professional and business experience in Traffic Engineering, Management Operations and Control and founded a public technology company. He has been a Professor of Transportation and Traffic Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Minnesota. He also worked as a research associate at the University of Florida, and as a Traffic Engineer at the Florida Department of Transportation.His principal fields of interest include Traffic Engineering, Operations Simulation and Control, Traffic Flow Theory, Advanced Traffic Management and Intelligent Transportation Systems including Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV). He has published over 120 papers in professional journals and made numerous presentations in international conferences . He has been a distinguished member of many professional societies and received awards from the Institute of Transportation Engineers,The Transportation Research Board,IEEE and others. Developed a patented process for machine vision based vehicle detection and founded a company for commercializing the technology, which pioneered the field of wide area vehicle detection( Autoscope). He later took the company public ( Image Sensing Systems NASDAQ : AATC ;earlier ticker :ISNS ).He served as PI in transportation research projects funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) the Program of University Research of the US Department of Transportation , the Federal Highway Administration, the Florida and Minnesota DOT, the EU commission and others.Dr. Michalopoulos has participated in traffic management and control projects worldwide, including the Barcelona, Atlanta, Seoul and Athens Olympic Games. He developed the first known mesoscopic PC based traffic simulation software (KRONOS) ,co founded the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota as well as the Traffic Observatory and led many advanced traffic management projects.

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