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On November 11, Dr. Dan Work, assistant professor in Civil & Environmental Engineering and research assistant professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, visited the PacTrans STAR Lab. Dr. Work met with Dr. Yinhai Wang, PacTrans director, to learn more about the research program and activities. While at the lab, Dr. Work also presented a seminar, “Estimating traffic incidents and quantifying resilience to events,” that outlined new approaches to monitor traffic in the presence of incidents and events.

Dr. Work received his master’s and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, each in civil engineering. Work was a guest researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond in 2010 and a visiting researcher at Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto from 2008-2010. His research interests are control, estimation, and optimization of transportation systems, mobile sensing, and inverse modeling and data assimilation.