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Infrastructure, Smart Cities & Transportation Workshop
March 8, 2017 @ 7:30 am - 7:00 pm
Hosted by the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Parsons, the workshop will explore how the work conducted at MIT is applied within the engineering industry. As part of a collaboration between MIT and Parsons, the workshop will consist of presentations from MIT faculty about their research relating to infrastructure, smart cities and transportation, as well as brief talks from representatives from Parsons.
Date: March 8, 2017
Schedule:
7:30-8am: Breakfast
8-10am session moderated by Markus Buehler
8-8:15am: Markus Buehler, Department Head, CEE and McAfee Professor of Engineering, MIT
Introduction & Overview
8:15-8:20am: Karl Koster, Director of the MIT Liaison Program (ILP)
Welcome and remarks
8:20-8:30am: Vladimir Bulovic, MIT Associate Dean for Innovation, Director, MIT Innovation Initiative
Innovation in the MIT Ecosystem
8:30-9am: Biff Lyons, Executive Vice President, Parsons Defense & Security Division, Parsons
Introduction to Parsons
9-9:30am: Moshe Ben-Akiva, Professor of CEE, Co-Director of Transportation Education Committee, MIT
Transportation Demand
9:30-10am: Break
10am-12pm moderated by Joanna Moody
10am-10:30: Lester Yoshida, Senior Vice President, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Parsons
Intelligent Transportation Systems, Connected Vehicles, and Autonomous Vehicles
10:30-11am: Sertac Karaman, Associate Professor of Aero-Astro, MIT
Autonomy-enabled Transportation Systems
11am-11:30am: Ali Jadbabaie, JR East Professor of CEE and Institute for Data, Systems and Society (IDSS); Associate Director of IDSS, MIT
Network Science, Network Economics, Control and Multi-agent Systems
11:30am-noon: Gibran Hadj-Chikh, Director of Innovative Transport, Parsons
Smart City Infrastructure
Noon-1pm: Lunch
12:30pm: Adam Rosenfield and Joanna Moody, MIT Transportation Student Group
1-3pm session moderated by Adam Rosenfield
1pm-1:30pm: Caitlin Mueller, Assistant Professor of Architecture and CEE, MIT
Design at the interface of architecture and structural engineering: Structural design and fabrication
1:30pm-2pm: Peter Mauritz, Senior Engineering Manager, Parsons
Megaproject implementation
2-2:30pm: Jinhua Zhao, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
Transportation planning and policy
2:30pm-3pm Jay Williams, Vice President, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Parsons
Critical Infrastructure Protection
3-3:30pm: Break
3:30-5pm moderated by Nate Bailey
3:30-4pm: Saurabh Amin, Assistant Professor of CEE, MIT
Network control, resilient infrastructures; games and related topic
4-4:30pm: Carolina Osorio, Assistant Professor of CEE, MIT
Urban Transportation
4:30-5pm: Nour Kassassir Vice President and Technology Director, Parsons Business Technology Services, Parsons
Parsons MEA Smart City Approach
5pm: Reception with dinner
7pm: Adjourn
Please send any questions to one@mit.edu.