Archie Huang has joined the research group as a postdoctoral research associate starting August 2023. Dr. Huang received his Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida in 2023.

A new article by Dr. Filipovska titled “Spatio-Temporal Characterization of Stochastic Dynamic Transportation Networks” is published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, the early access version is now available here: https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3276190

Dr. Monika Filipovska’s research group has an opening for a postdoctoral fellow. See the details and application instructions below:

Dr. Filipovska’s paper was selected for the Stella Dafermos best paper award by the Standing Committee on Transportation Network Modeling at the 2023 TRB Annual Meeting. The paper is titled “Estimation of Path Travel Time Distributions in Stochastic Time-Varying Networks with Correlations”, published in TRR in 2021 with co-authors Hani S. Mahmassani and Archak Mittal. […]

Syed Islam has joined the research group as a PhD student, starting in Spring 2023.

I am pleased to announce that we have recently be awarded $1.72 M from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to develop a novel information management system for real-time dissemination of commercial vehicle parking information. See the UConn School of Engineering announcement here.  

We are excited to share a new paper titled “Efficient Traffic State Forecasting using Spatio-Temporal Network Dependencies: A Sparse Graph Neural Network Approach”. The pre-print is now available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.03033

The UConn Seminar in Transportation and Urban Engineering, organized by Dr. Filipovska, hosted Dr. Curtis Walker from the National Center on Atmospheric Research on October 28th, 2022. His presentation was titled “Will weather dampen self-driving vehicles?”. More information about the talk can be found here.

Dr. Filipovska will be presenting the recent work on “Anticipatory Fleet Operation for Shared-use Autonomous Mobility Services with Learning-based Vehicle Repositioning” at the upcoming 102nd TRB Annual Meeting. The presentation will be part of lectern session #2027 titled “How Automated Vehicles Could Advance Mobility”, scheduled for  Monday, Jan 09, 2023 8:00AM – 9:45AM. 

We are excited to share a new paper titled “Anticipatory Fleet Repositioning for Shared-use Autonomous Mobility Services: An Optimization and Learning-Based Approach”. The pre-print is now available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.08659

Dr. Filipovska gave a talk in session “TA46. Mobility on Demand in Multimodal Urban Transportation Systems” on October 18th at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. The talk was titled: “Optimization And Learning-based Decision Making For Matching And Rebalancing In Autonomous Fleet Operations For Mobility-on-demand Services”.

The UConn Seminar in Transportation and Urban Engineering, organized by Dr. Filipovska, hosted Dr. Joseph Chow from New York University on October 14th, 2022. His presentation was titled “A stable matching analysis framework for Mobility-as-a-Service platforms as two-sided markets”. Click here for more information.

The 2nd Workshop on “Next Generation Transportation Networks: Emerging Technologies, Data Analytics and Perspectives” took place on October 8th, 2022 virtually as part of the 25th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE ITSC 2022). The workshop was sponsored by the TRB subcommittee on Emerging Technologies in Transportation Network Modeling, part of the Standing […]

I am pleased to announce that my student Haimanti Bala has been selected as a Lof Schoalr and Member of the John Lof Leadership Academy (JLLA) at the UConn School of Engineering. Congratulations Haimanti! The JLLA is an exclusive Academy for graduate students in engineering, rewarding and cultivating a select group of future leaders and […]

The UConn Seminar in Transportation and Urban Engineering, organized by Dr. Filipovska, hosted Dr. Sharon Di from Columbia University for a virtual seminar session on Friday, October 7th, 2022.

Dr. Monika Filipovska presented an overview of her research in a talk titled “Advancing Mobility: Emerging Trends and Technologies in Transportation” at the 2022 Women in STEM Frontiers in Research Expo (WiSFiRE) on September 12th at the University of Connecticut.

Haimanti Bala has joined the research group as a PhD student starting in Fall 2022, after completing her MS degree at the University of Missouri.

The upcoming presentation is titled: “Optimization And Learning-based Decision Making For Matching And Rebalancing In Autonomous Fleet Operations For Mobility-on-demand Services”. The INFORMS 2022 Annual Meeting will take place on October 16-19, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

Dr. Filipovska received the Research Excellence Program (REP) award at UConn for a joint project with Dr. He (UConn CSE) on the topic of “Interpretable Mobility-on-Demand Prediction and Hierarchical Data-Driven Fleet Coordination”

Monika Filipovska presented her work titled “Traffic State Forecasting using Spatio-Temporal Network Dependencies: A Graph Neural Network Approach” at the 4th Bridging Transportation Researchers (BTR) Conference.