Personnel, Staff, and Advisory Board

Leadership

List of personnel not exhaustive.

Director (Morgan State University) Mansoureh Jeihani Phone: 443-885-1873 Mansoureh.Jeihani@morgan.edu
Associate Director (University of Maryland, College Park) Cinzia Cirillo Phone: 301-405-6864 ccirillo@umd.edu
Associate Director (Virginia Tech) Hesham Rakha Phone: 540-231-1505 hrakha@vtti.vt.edu
Associate Director (Howard University) Stephen Arhin saarhin@Howard.edu
Associate Director (University of Pittsburg) Lev Khazanovich Phone: 414-624-9047 Lev.K@pitt.edu
Associate Director (University of Delaware) Ardeshir Faghri Phone: 302-831-2426 faghri@udel.edu
Associate Director (University of Virginia) Brian Park Phone: 434-924-6347​ bp6v@virginia.edu
Associate Director (West Virginia University) V. Dimitra Pyrialakou Phone: 304.293.9927 dimitra.pyrialakou@mail.wvu.edu

Collaborative Researchers

University of Maryland

Dr. Cinzia Cirillo
Phone: 301-405-6864
ccirillo@umd.edu

Dr. Ali Haghani
Phone: 301-405-1963
haghani@umd.edu

Dr. Paul Schonfeld
Phone: 301-405-1954
pschon@umd.edu

Dr. Gang-Len Chang
Phone: 301-405-1953
gang@umd.edu

Dr. Xianfeng Yang
xtyang@umed.edu

Virginia Tech

Hesham Rakha
Phone: 540-231-1505
hrakha@vtti.vt.edu

Hao Chen
Phone: 540-231-3629
hchen@vtti.vt.edu

Ihab El-Shawarby
Phone: 540-231-1577
IEl-Shawaby@vtti.vt.edu

Jianhe Du
Phone: 540-231-2673
jdu@vtti.vt.edu, 540-231-2673

Karim Fadhloun
karim198@vt.edu

Kyoungho Ahn
Phone: 703-538-8447
kahn@vtti.vt.edu

Mohammed Elhenawy
Phone: 540-231-2974
melhenawy@vtti.vt.edu

Youssef Bichiou
Phone: 540-231-1500
youssef1@vt.edu

Morgan State University

Mansoureh Jeihani
Phone: 443-885-1873
Mansoureh.Jeihani@morgan.edu 

Dr. Anam Ardeshiri
anam.ardeshiri@morgan.edu

Dr. Sanjay Bapna 
Phone: 443-885-3941 
sanjay.bapna@morgan.edu

Dr. Celeste Chavis
Phone: 443-885-5061
celeste.chavis@morgan.edu

Dr. Gregory Newmark
gregory.newmark@morgan.edu

Dr. Chunlei Fan
Phone: 443-885-4083, 
chunlei.fan@morgan.edu

Dr. Cynthia Glass
cynthia.glass@morgan.edu

Dr. James Hunter
Phone: 443-885-4733
james.hunter@morgan.edu

Dr. Dong Hee Kang
Phone: 443-885-4728
donghee.kang@morgan.edu

Dr. Young-Jae Lee
Phone: 443-885-1872
youngjae.lee@morgan.edu

Dr. Kofi Nyarko
Phone: 443-885-3476
kofi.nyarko@morgan.edu

Dr. Oludare Owolabi
Phone: 443-885-5445
oludare.owolabi@morgan.edu

Dr. Eazaz Sadeghvaziri
eazaz.sadeghvaziri@morgan.edu

Dr. Anthony Saka
Phone: 443-885-1871
anthony.saka@morgan.edu

Dr. Hyeon-Shic Shin
Phone: 443-885-3228
hyeonshic.shin@morgan.edu

Alirezza Ansariyar
alans2@morgan.edu

Bhuyan Istiak
isbhu1@morgan.edu

Muhib Kabir
mdkab1@morgan.edu

Amirezza Nickkar
amirreza.nickkar@morgan.edu

Nashid Khadem
nakha3@morgan.edu

Dr. Di Yang
di.yang@morgan.edu

West Virginia University

Dr. James Bryce
james.bryce@mail.wvu.edu

Dr. David Martinelli
david.martinelli@mail.wvu.edu

University of Virginia

Dr. T Donna Chen
tdchen@virginia.edu

Dr. Andrew Mondschein
mondschein@virginia.edu

Afsaneh Droyab
ad4ks@virginia.edu

University of Pittsburg

Dr. Lev Khazanovich
Lev.K@pitt.edu

Dr. Aleksandar Stevanovich
stevanovic@pitt.edu

Dr. Julie Vandenbossche
jmv7@pitt.edu

University of Delaware

Dr. Jennie Saxe
jpsaxe@udel.edu

Dr. Philip Barnes 
pbarnes@udel.edu

Dr. Andrea Pierce
alpierce@udel.edu

Dr. Ardeshir Faghri
faghri@udel.edu

Advisory Board

Jim Ports (Committee Chair*)
Fmr Secretary, Maryland Department of Transportation

Jeff Adler
Vice President, Kapsch TrafficCom North America

Charles Glass
Executive Director of Maryland Environmental Services, MDOT

Bill Austin
Executive Director, Morgantown Monongalia MPO (WV)

Don Halligan
Senior Transportation Planner, Baltimore Metropolitan Council (MD)

Moges Ayele
Former Director, National Highway Institute, FHWA

Ellie Mortazavi
Stormwater Program Coordinator, New Castle County (DE) Government

Ahmed Amer
Senior Transportation Engineer, VHB

Gregory Murrill
pision Administrator, FHWA

Nathan Beil
President, KCI Technologies

Osma Osamn
Leidos

A. Bradley Mims 
President and CEO, COMTO

Hyunjun Park
CARMA Technical Program Manager, FHWA

Chris Costello
CEO, Public Sector Consulting

Jayanthi Rao Research
Manager, Ford

Nimish Desai
Department Manager, Dewberry

Philip Thomas
Director, Eastern Service Center, FMCSA

Stephanie Dock
Research Program Administrator, D.C. DOT

Melissa Tooley
Director of External Initiatives, Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Georgios Effraimidis
Senior Manager of Economic Strategy, Qualcomm

Richard Woo
Director, Office of Policy and Research, Maryland State Highway Administration

Andrew Farkas
Former Director, Morgan NTC/UMEC

Tigist Zegeye
Executive Director, Wilmington Area Planning Council (DE)