Category: Faculty Spotlight

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator Sherrilene Classen, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UF Department of Occupational Therapy, is an affiliate of the UFTI who, on May 29, 2025, accomplished the amazing achievement of reaching Mount Everest’s Base Camp at 17,600 feet in the Himalayas. Coincidentally, May 29 was also the day when […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., UFTI Research & Communications Coordinator Scott Washburn, Ph.D., P.E., a respected faculty member at UF’s Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). This prestigious recognition honors Washburn for decades of leadership and outstanding contributions to the field […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., UFTI Research Coordinator/Communications University of Florida Associate Professor Chris Ferraro attended the annual Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting in Washington, D.C., in January, serving as a panelist during a workshop on Low-Carbon Concrete. Ferraro also achieved a professional milestone and was elected a member of the American Concrete Institute’s (ACI) […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI Research Coordinator After a decade as the driving force behind the success of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI), Lily Elefteriadou, a distinguished professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering (CCE) within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and the Environment (ESSIE), is stepping down as its director. Kyle […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI Research Coordinator Sangung Park is a new postdoctoral associate at the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI). His work focuses on transportation and infrastructure systems engineering. Park is from South Korea. He attended the University of Seoul where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Park attended Purdue University for […]

UFTI Director Dr. Lily Elefteriadou was recently honored as a lifetime fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. Dr. Elefteriadou is affiliated with the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She is a professor of civil engineering and […]

University of Florida faculty Dr. Sanaz Motamedi, Dr. Eakta Jain, Dr. Xilei Zhao, Dr. Wayne Gian and Dr. Boyi Ju were selected as semifinalists as part of the Inclusive Design challenge team led by the University of Kansas. The research team is focused on people with cognitive disabilities such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and […]

Congratulations to Dr. Siva Srinivasan, Dr. Rui Guo, Dr. Karla Rodrigues-Silva, and Dr. Gustavo de Andrade for representing the UFTI in ITE’s Vision Zero Sandbox Challenge. The UFTI team has been selected as one of two finalists for the Professional Competition category. This year’s goal was to develop a methodology that used automated conflict data […]

By: Dr. Justin Mason, Dr. Sandra Winter, Dr. Ilir Bejleri, and Donna Schoenfelder Research has shown that as people age, their eyesight, hearing, and reflexes are not as sharp as they once were. Additionally, their reaction time decreases, making it no longer safe to drive. As a consequence, older drivers face several decisions related to […]

This study was recently published in IEEE – Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9312471) Doctoral candidate Stephen Spana and his adviser, Dr. Lili Du of the UF Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, worked on a National Science Foundation study aimed at mitigating system traffic congestion by leveraging users’ reaction to real-time traffic data provision […]