Below are graduate students under my supervision.
January 12th, 2016 at Tony Cheng in Washington, D.C. (L to R): Javier (son), Leah (wife), Mr. Hadi Khazraee (Ph.D. candidate), Dr. Lingtao Wu, me, Dr. Srinivas Geedipally, Dr. Chung-Wei Shen (husband of Pei-Fen and former A&M student in our program), Dr. Pei-Fen Kuo, Dr. Byung-Jung Park, Dr. Myunghoon Ko, Mr. Thanh Le. Missing, but were in Washington: Dr. Yichuan Peng, Ms. Vichika Iragavarapu, Mr. Mohammadali Shirazi
February 28th, 2008: (L to R) Kyuntae, Pei-Fen, Fan, Byung Jung, me, Thanh, Sriram, Srinivas, Hien, Mehdi Dr. Hawkin’s Student), and Soma (a Ph.D. student in statistics who has an interest in highway safety)
February 28th, 2008 – Relaxing while enjoying healthy food
February 19, 2009: (L to R) Myunghoon, Yajie, Yichuan, Byung-Jung, Srinivas, me, Thanh, Sandra (Ph.D. student from Portugal), Mehdi, Pei-Fen, Fan and Hien
These pictures were taken at one of our bi-weekly meetings. These meetings are used to provide a venue for the students to share their most recent research work activities and improve their presentation skills. Each student, on a rotational basis, presents a short presentation on a relevant research topic.
Ph.D. Degree
Guneet Saini
Started: January 1st, 2021
Dissertation title: TBD
Graduated: TBD
Ali Khodadadi
Started: September 1st, 2019
Thesis title: TBD
Graduated: TBD
Soheil Sohrabi
Started: January 1st, 2018
Dissertation title: Evaluating Automated Vehicles Safety Performance: Examining the Application of Survival Analysis for AV Safety Validation
Graduated: TBD
Maryam Mousavi
Started: January 1st, 2016
Dissertation title: Examining the Impact of Non-Infrastructure Variables on the Safety Performance of Autonomous Vehicles at Signalized Intersections Using Machine Learning Techniques
Graduated: Dec. 2020
Mohammadali Shirazi
Started: September 1st, 2013
Graduated: Dec 2018
Dissertation Title: Advanced Statistical Methods for Analyzing Crash Datasets with Many Zero Observations and a Long Tail: Semiparametric Negative Binomial Dirichlet Process Mixture and Model Selection Heuristics
Employment: University of Maine
Lingtao Wu
Started: January 1st, 2012
Graduated: August 2016
Dissertation Title: Examining the Use of Regression Models for Developing Crash Reduction Factors
Employment: Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Seyed Hadi Khazraee
Started: January 1st, 2012
Graduated: August 2016
Dissertation Title: Full Bayesian Poisson-Hierarchical Models for Crash Data Analysis: Investigating the Impact of Model choice on Site-Specific Predictions
Employment: Google
Yichuan Peng
Started: Sept 1st, 2008
Graduated: May 2013
Dissertation title: Examining the Generalized Waring Model for the Analysis of Traffic Crashes
Employment: Tongji University,
Myunghoon Ko
Started: Sept 1st, 2008
Graduated: Dec 2011
Dissertation title: Incorporating Vehicle Emission Models into the Design Process
Employment: Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Pei-Fen Kuo
Started: Sept 1st, 2007
Graduated: May 2012
Dissertation title: Estimating the Effects of Site Selection Criteria for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Traffic Safety Improvement Countermeasures
Employment: National Cheng Kung University
Fan Ye
Started: Jan 1st, 2007
Graduated: May 2011
Dissertation title: Investigating the Effects of Sample Size, Model Misspecification, and Underreporting in Crash Data on Three Commonly Used Traffic Crash Severity Models
Last Employment: Ohio Northern University
Byung Jung Park
Started: Sept 1st, 2006
Graduated: May 2010
Dissertation title: Application of the Finite Mixture Models for Vehicle Crash Data Analysis
Employment: Myongji University
Srinivas Geedipally
Started: Sept 1st, 2005
Graduated: December 2008
Dissertation title: Examining the Application of Conway-Maxwell-Poisson models for Analyzing Traffic Crash Data
Employment: Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Master of Science (with thesis) Degree
Uthej Vattipalli
Graduated: TBD
Thesis title: TBD
Ankit Jhamb
Graduated: August 2020
Thesis title: Examining Crash Location Characteristics in Texas between 2003 and 2017 to Assess the Effects of the Great Recession on Fatalities.
Aman Sharma
Graduated: December 2019
Thesis title: Analyzing Crash Potential in Mixed Traffic with Autonomous Vehicles.
Tahmida Hossain Shimu
Graduated: May 2019
Thesis title: Examining the Factors Causing a Drastic Reduction and Subsequent Increase of Roadway Fatalities on United States Highways between 2005 and 2016
Bharadwaj Bommanayakanahalli
Graduated: May 2018
Thesis title: Improved Guidelines for the Recalibration of Prediction Models over Time based on Model Uncertainty
Prathyusha Vangala
Graduated: May 2014
Thesis: Negative Binomial-Generalized Exponential Distribution: Generalized Linear Model and Its Applications
Lingzi Cheng
Graduated: August 2012
Thesis title: Examining the Poisson-Weibull Generalization Model for Analyzing Crash Data
Yaotian Zou
Graduated: August 2012
Thesis title: Over- and Under-Dispersed Crash Data: Comparing the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson and Double-Poisson Distributions
Thanh Le
Graduated: December, 2009
Thesis title: Application of Microscopic Simulation to Evaluate the Safety Performance of Freeway Weaving Sections
GiridharReddy SingiReddy
Graduated: December, 2007
Thesis title: Evaluating TxDOT’s safety Improvement Index (SII): A Prioritization Tool
Vichika Iragavarapu
Graduated: December, 2007
Thesis title: Examining Potential Factors Affecting the Safety Performance and Design of Exclusive Truck Facilities
Bhushan Gokhale
Graduated: December, 2006
Thesis Title: Application of Landfill Gas as a Liquefied Natural Gas for Refuse Trucks in Texas
Master of Engineering / Master of Science (without thesis) Degree
Iman Rahim
Graduated: 2018
Darshan Padmanabha
Graduated: 2016
Rudraradhya Hiremath
Graduated: 2016
Adrian Contreras
Graduated: December 2015
Elizabeth Nelson
Graduated: August 2015
Hien Pham
Graduated: May 2012
Yajie Zou
Graduated: August 2010
Karthikeya (Sriram) Banda
Graduated: August 2008
Charles Stevens
Graduated: June, 2005
Seong-Hee Cho
Graduated: August, 2005
Undergraduate (Scholars Program)
Connie Xavier
Thesis title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Crash Test Guidelines
Graduated: May 2015
George Gillette
Thesis title: Investigation of Pedestrian-Cyclist Interactions through Machine Vision
Graduated: May 2017