CUIP Webinar Information and Speakers
MLK Smart Corridor: How Connected Technologies Make Mobility Efficient
Date: Tuesday, July 28th
Time: 12 PM
Moderated by CUIP Director Mina Sartipi, CUIP’s webinar will host a series of connected technologies, traffic, and transportation experts to discuss how connected vehicles and infrastructures benefit communities. Our discussion will discuss the benefits and limitations of connected cities, as well as how current research in the field is building a new future.
Below you will find biographies of our speakers.
Speakers
Tim Britt, Temple Inc.
Tim Britt is the Alabama/Tennessee Technical Salesman at Temple, Inc. in Decatur, Alabama. Since beginning his work in the traffic industry in 2010, Tim has worked to deploy cutting edge traffic technologies and systems in the states he supports by building strong relationships with city staff, consultants, and contractors.
Kevin Comstock, City of Chattanooga
Kevin Comstock has over 35 years of experience in the transportation industry and currently serves as the Smart City Director for the City of Chattanooga, TN. He has held various positions in the private sector and in local and state government performing the design and construction of numerous transportation and telecommunications projects across the country. His specialties include project management, strategic planning, and collaborative team-building.
Austin Harris, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Austin Harris is an alumni at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he currently manages the MLK Smart Corridor testbed. He has experience in enterprise data infrastructure design and development. At UTC, he focuses on developing smart city applications and underlying data infrastructure.
Casey Lewis, Seimens
Casey is a software engineer who graduated from Texas State University in 2016. Casey has worked on projects such as an ATMS Centrals project, an adaptive translator project called Gemini which was a collaboration with the UK, our US controller software called Sepac, and also an adaptive machine learning project with German colleagues called flowAI.
Dr. Aleksander Stevanovic, University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Stevanovic is an Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering, of the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include traffic signal systems, intelligent transportation systems, multimodal and sustainable operations, etc. Dr. Stevanovic has published around 130 journal and conference papers and presented at more than 100 international, national, and state seminars. He has been a principal investigator on 25 research projects, for a total of ~ $4.5 million in funding, and he is a Fulbright Specialist in the area of urban network traffic control.
