Faculty
Kann Ozbay
Director, C2SMART Center
Professor, New York University
Kaan Ozbay joined Department of Civil and Urban engineering and Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at NYU in August 2013. Dr. Ozbay was a tenured full Professor at the Rutgers University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He joined Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor in July, 1996. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar at the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) Department of Princeton University.
Dr. Ozbay is the recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award and serves as the Associate Editor of Networks and Spatial Economic journal and Transportmetrica B: Transportation Dynamics journal. He is a member of the editorial board of the ITS journal.
kaan.ozbay@nyu.edu
+1 646 997 0552
Staff
Hong Yang
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Hong Yang is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at New York University (NYU), and the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. Hong holds a Ph.D. degree (2012) in Civil Engineering and a Master degree (2010) in Statistics from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and a Master degree (2007) in Transportation Planning and Management from Tongji University. Hong’s academic and professional activities and interests span a number of areas such as Transportation Safety, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Traffic Simulation and Modeling, Incident and Emergency Management, Transportation Planning, and Traffic Operation. Hong is also actively involved in Urban Informatics and Big Data mining in transportation systems. Hong has been working on a number of transportation projects funded by different agencies. Hong is the author and co-author of a number of scientific publications in journals and conference proceedings.
hong.yang@nyu.edu
+1 646 997 0548
Dilruba Ozmen-Ertekin
PhD, PE
Dr. Dilruba Ozmen-Ertekin earned a B.S. in civil engineering in 1995 and an M.S. in civil engineering (transportation) in 1998 from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and a Ph.D. in civil engineering (transportation) in 2003 from Rutgers University.
Dr. Ozmen-Ertekin’s research interest in transportation covers planning, operations and design of transportation facilities, simulation and modeling, economic impact studies, sustainable transportation systems, transportation and land use linkages, transit systems, traffic safety, transportation demand management, ITS, transportation data management, linear and nonlinear optimization techniques, and pavement deterioration models.
dilruba@nyu.edu