Principal Investigator
Dr. Kate (Kyung) Hyun is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Her research centers on big data analytics using Intelligent Transportation Systems technologies for various applications including community mobility modeling, traffic monitoring and operation. Dr. Hyun is currently conducting research on the topics of equity in transportation and community resiliency using neighborhood data and large-sized vehicle trajectories and pedestrian and bikers travel behavior. The USDOT, North Central Texas Council of Governments, and the City of Arlington support her current research. Much of her previous research focuses on applied research topics and is published in Transportation Research Board (TRB) publications and peer-reviewed journal papers.
Supervising Students
Mehrdad Arabi
Objective: Ph.D
Interests: Big Data and Transportation and Health
Mehrdad got his master’s in transportation engineering from Isfahan University of Technology and is a Ph.D. student in transportation engineering group of UTA. His current research focus is transportation equity, transportation and health, and big data analysis supervised by Dr. Hyun. The research projects he is working on are funded by National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) and TxDOT. His previous studies were on public transit and use of artificial intelligence in supply and demand forecasting.
Jaesik Choi
Objective: Ph.D
Interests: Urban Mobility
Jaesik received B.Sc Transportation System Engineering in the Republic of Korea and Masters’ of Science Engineering Transportation System in Civil Engineering at Arizona State University. He is interested in investigating individual activity behavior in urban mobility .
Jobaidul Alam Boni
Objective: Ph.D
Interests: Human factors in transportation systems
Boni received his B.Sc in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). He has also completed his M.Engr. in Transportation Engineering from University of Texas at Arlington. His primary research interests are- Areas of transportation human factors and consideration of user behavior in the design, evaluation and innovation of transportation systems, Distraction driving and drivers’ behavior, transportation safety and accident analysis, transportation planning.
Troyee Saha
Objective: Ph.D
Interests: Transportation planning and travel behavior analysis
Troyee received her bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). She completed her M.Sc. in Transportation Engineering from University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research interests are transportation planning, travel behavior analysis, traffic operations, sustainable transportation system.
Ashraful Imran
Objective: Ph.D
Interests: Big Data and Transportation Planning
Ashraful obtained his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) in Bangladesh and his master’s degree in Civil Engineering with a focus on transportation engineering from Florida Atlantic University in the United States. His research interest includes machine learning applications to data-driven decision-making in transportation planning. He is presently working on a research project titled “Exploring the Use of Crowdsourced Data Sources for Pedestrian Count Estimations.”
Juana Perez
Objective: MS
Interests: Transportation Engineering
Juana received her Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is currently working on “Understanding Distracted Driving Behaviors” funded by NITC Fellowship.
Graduate Researchers
Farah Naz
Objective: Ph.D
Interests: Data Analytics in Mobility and Access
Farah received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2010, and MSc in Transportation Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts in 2015. She worked with Oregon Department of Transportation from 2015-2016 in the Rail and Public transit division at Salem, Oregon. Her research interest is focused on data mining, machine learning, and mobility access for transportation disadvantaged population. She has been involved with several research projects funded by CTEDD and City of Arlington including “Assessing viability of car-sharing for low-income communities” and “Social media analysis for transit assessment”
Former Group Members
Md Mintu Miah , PhD
Sina Famili, PhD
Rima Subedi, MS
Utsav Domadia, MS