UFTI Director Named Interim Chair for the UF Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, director of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI), has been named the Interim Chair of the Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Department in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.

In addition to leading the Transportation Institute, Elefteriadou will oversee the ISE Department, which offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree programs and has an enrollment of about 560 full-time undergraduate students and 160 masters students, and 24 Ph.D. candidates. There are currently 12 tenured or tenure-track faculty members with several research fellows in the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Institute of International Education (IIE), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).  The Department also has four National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award winners and one Office of Naval Research (ONR) Youth Investigator Program (YIP) award winner. The Department’s current external research expenditures exceed 1.8 million annually and are ranked by U.S. News and World Report 17th overall (and 12th public) in their graduate program.

As a Kisinger Campo Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Florida, Elefteriadou’s research focuses in traffic operations, traffic flow theory and simulation. She is the principal investigator of the US DOT-funded Regional University Transportation Center for Region 4 (Southeast Transportation Research Innovation Development and Education, or STRIDE). STRIDE involves seven other universities in the southeast and is funded with $6.8 Million from the US DOT plus an equal amount of cost sharing from non-federal sources (period of performance is January 2012 to May 2017). STRIDE focuses on issues of livability, safety and economic competitiveness.

Elefteriadou also served as the principal investigator for several other federal and state projects, funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Federal Highway Administration, PennDOT and FDOT. She has authored or co-authored more than one hundred publications and reports related to traffic operational quality and highway design, as well as a textbook titled “Introduction to Traffic Flow Theory”.

Elefteriadou serves on the Editorial Board of the Transportation Research: Part B, and is the Chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee. She is also on the Executive Board of the Council of University Transportation Centers and was the 2014-2015 President of the ARTBA Research and Education Council.

Nominations and applications are currently being accepted for the permanent Chair position for the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. Please contact Dr. John Harris for further information and questions.