Keynote Speakers

Before work­ing at ETH, he worked at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Inns­bruck, the Impe­r­i­al Col­lege Lon­don and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oxford. He holds Mas­ter of Sci­ence degree from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Wisconsin–Madison as well as Ph.D. in civ­il engi­neer­ing from Karl­sruhe Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy. Prof. Axhausen is known for writ­ing a sig­nif­i­cant amount of papers, pre­sen­ta­tions and research data. He is an edi­tor in chief of Trans­porta­tion, and serves on the editor's advi­so­ry board of Trans­porta­tion Research A, and Trav­el Behav­iour and Society.

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Dr. Bhat is rec­og­nized nation­al­ly and inter­na­tion­al­ly as a lead­ing expert in the area of trav­el demand mod­el­ing and trav­el behav­ior analy­sis. His sub­stan­tive research inter­ests include land-use and trav­el demand mod­el­ing, activ­i­ty-based trav­el mod­el­ing, pol­i­cy eval­u­a­tion of the effect of trans­porta­tion con­trol and con­ges­tion pric­ing mea­sures on traf­fic con­ges­tion and mobile-source emis­sions, mar­ket­ing research of com­pet­i­tive posi­tion­ing strate­gies for trans­porta­tion ser­vices, use of non-motor­ized modes of trav­el, and phys­i­cal health and trans­porta­tion. His method­olog­i­cal research inter­ests and exper­tise are in the areas of econo­met­ric and math­e­mat­i­cal mod­el­ing of con­sumer behav­ior, includ­ing dis­crete choice analy­sis, dis­crete-con­tin­u­ous econo­met­ric sys­tems, and haz­ard dura­tion mod­els. His method­olog­i­cal works are wide­ly ref­er­enced in the eco­nom­ics, mar­ket­ing, geog­ra­phy, sta­tis­tics, and trans­porta­tion fields, and have been includ­ed in econo­met­ric text­books and soft­ware pack­ages. Many of these works, pub­lished as ref­er­eed jour­nal papers, have been list­ed in jour­nals as high­ly cit­ed papers, and two of his papers were includ­ed in a book com­pi­la­tion of the 46 most influ­en­tial and inno­v­a­tive schol­ar­ly papers in the choice mod­el­ing field in the past 60 years (the book title is Choice Mod­el­ling: Foun­da­tion­al Con­tri­bu­tions, 2011, Edward Elgar Pub­lish­ing Ltd). He also has authored sev­er­al book chap­ters focus­ing on improved meth­ods for choice mod­el­ing in gen­er­al and land use-trav­el demand mod­el­ing in par­tic­u­lar. The num­ber of times his work has been cit­ed, as per the Thom­son Reuters Web of Sci­ence data­base, is over the 6700 mark with an h‑index of 46. This cita­tion index places him among the top of trans­porta­tion pro­fes­sors in cita­tions. The num­ber of his cita­tions in the Google Schol­ar data­base is over 21,500, with an h‑index of 79. Dr. Bhat's research has been fund­ed by the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion, the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency, the Nation­al Insti­tute of Sta­tis­ti­cal Sci­ences, State Depart­ments of Trans­porta­tion, includ­ing TxDOT, the Bureau of Trans­porta­tion Sta­tis­tics, and the U.S. Depart­ment of Trans­porta­tion. More

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He is also a ser­i­al entre­pre­neur, hav­ing found­ed sev­er­al lead­ing secu­ri­ty com­pa­nies, includ­ing Palo Alto Net­works and Cyphort Inc., and is an angel investor in more than half a dozen star­tups. Dr. Gong received both his M.S. and D.Sc. in com­put­er sci­ence from Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­si­ty, St. Louis. He is a grad­u­ate of Xi'an Jiao­tong Uni­ver­si­ty in Chi­na where he com­plet­ed his B.S. in com­put­er orga­ni­za­tion and archi­tec­ture, and M.S. in com­put­er science.

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He is past edi­tor-in-chief of Trans­porta­tion Sci­ence, senior edi­tor of IEEE Trans­ac­tions on Intel­li­gent Trans­porta­tion Sys­tems, found­ing (past) asso­ciate edi­tor of Trans­porta­tion Research C: Emerg­ing Tech­nolo­gies, and asso­ciate edi­tor of Trans­porta­tion Research Record. He is a past pres­i­dent of the Trans­porta­tion Sci­ence Sec­tion of the Insti­tute for Oper­a­tions Research and the Man­age­ment Sci­ences, a past Pres­i­dent of the Inter­na­tion­al Asso­ci­a­tion for Trav­el Behav­ior Research, and the Con­venor-elect of the ISTTT Inter­na­tion­al Advi­so­ry Com­mit­tee. He was the recip­i­ent of a Dis­tin­guished Alum­nus Award of the Fac­ul­ty of Engi­neer­ing and Archi­tec­ture of the Amer­i­can Uni­ver­si­ty of Beirut in 2006, the Intel­li­gent Trans­porta­tion Sys­tems Out­stand­ing Appli­ca­tion Award of the Insti­tute of Elec­tri­cal and Elec­tron­ics Engi­neers in 2010, and the Trans­porta­tion Research Board’s Thomas Deen Dis­tin­guished Lec­ture­ship in 2016. He was elect­ed Emer­i­tus mem­ber of the Trans­porta­tion Research Board (of the Nation­al Acad­e­mies) com­mit­tees on Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions and Trav­el Behav­ior, Trans­porta­tion Net­work Mod­el­ing Com­mit­tee, and Trav­el­er Behav­ior and Val­ues. He was elect­ed to the Nation­al Acad­e­my of Engi­neer­ing in 2021 “for con­tri­bu­tions to mod­el­ing of intel­li­gent trans­porta­tion net­works and to inter­dis­ci­pli­nary col­lab­o­ra­tion in trans­porta­tion engi­neer­ing”. Mah­mas­sani received his PhD from the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy in trans­porta­tion sys­tems and MS in trans­porta­tion engi­neer­ing from Pur­due University.

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